Thursday 24 October 2013

The Feltonians - new members always welcome

Message from Colleen Hughes

THE FELTONIANS AFTERNOON CLUB

at the Methodist Hall, West Felton opposite the playing field.

SINCE ITS INCEPTION ON 3rd MARCH 1976, the club has met on Tuesdays at 2pm,

that’s 37 years of friendship, fun, tea and biscuits!

 The Methodist chapel hall is a warm and cosy place; some members like Whist, some like Scrabble, Draughts or Chess, some like craft work, all like a chat.

 Summer outings and occasional meals are organised - the members make all their own decisions and do whatever they fancy. Friendships are made and the Tuesday club date is looked forward to as a regular feature of each week.

 GENTLEMEN and LADIES - NEW MEMBERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME

 Why not come along with a friend? Bring your knitting, or books/magazines to discuss and swap or … whatever else you would like to do for a couple of hours every week whilst making friends with your neighbours. Who knows - you might have them all up dancing after a few weeks!

 The opportunity is there for you to join and make the club whatever you want it to be

and, it is hoped, carry it on for another thirty years.

 
--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Art Exhibition at The Qube, Oswestry

Elsi Eldridge’s Paintings Return to Oswestry




The next exhibition at the Qube Gallery Oswestry, opening on October 19th, features the paintings and drawings of Mildred Elsi Eldridge who painted much of her work, during the 1940 and 50s, whilst teaching in Oswestry and at Moreton Hall. A star pupil at the Royal College of Art, whose work was admired by Sir Stanley Spencer, she successfully exhibited her one-woman show at London’s Beaux Arts Gallery in 1937.  However, she then gave up the London art scene and opted instead for the beautiful countryside of the local borderlands.


Whilst lodging in Chirk she met, and later married, R S Thomas a young curate who was to become the foremost Welsh poet of the 20th Century.  Elsi was a prolific artist reputedly producing, at one time, a painting every fourteen days many of which she gave away or sold to support the family finances.  “There must paintings in and around the Oswestry area, work she gave to friends and acquaintances” said Laurel Roberts CO of Qube “we should love to hear from anyone who owns a painting by Elsi.”


Elsi illustrated and wrote children’s books and illustrated the dust cover of R S Thomas’s volume of poems ‘Stones from the Field’ in 1947. Her work draws strong inspiration from wild life and she developed a passion for natural history illustration producing copious numbers of drawings of birds, animals, butterflies and moths some of which were published by Medici cards. Possibly her greatest achievement was the huge mural commissioned for the Orthopaedic Hospital at Gobowen, “The Dance of Life” which is now permanently installed at Glyndwr University with the support of Arts Council Wales.


After her marriage, Elsi’s reputation as an artist was overshadowed by the critical acclaim awarded to the poetry of R S Thomas her husband. “We hope this exhibition will demonstrate to local people what a considerable talent Elsi was in her own right” said Trudi Graham arts adviser to Qube, “ she was a major female artist of the 20th Century and there must be many people in the locality who remember her.” This Qube Gallery exhibition is one of a number which are featuring, during 2013, the work of under-recognised female artists. The exhibition will feature Helen Williams-Ellis’s engaging film ‘Who Was Mrs R S Thomas’.


The exhibition runs for a month, anyone wanting further information or who wish to talk about Elsi, should call Qube on 01691 656882 email info@qube-oca.org.uk or pop in.


 

Qube, Oswald Road

Oswestry, SY11 1RB

Tel: 01691 656882

www.qube-oca.org.uk

 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Meres & Mosses Family Cycle Safari

Message from Luke Neal , Shropshire Wildlife Trust.

Half term fun and exercise for all the family around north Shropshire`s lake district.

Meres & Mosses
FAMILY CYCLE SAFARI with a guide
Tuesday 29th October - meet at 10.30 at
Colemere Car Park
, SY12 0JP

Lots more information about cycling in Shropshire can be found at www.travelshropshire.co.uk/love your bike



--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Thanks for finding the Lost Wallet

Thanks from Darren, Deborough and Darren Wood


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Lost Wallet
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:48:21 -0400
From: Deborah Wood <turbooverload@aol.com>
To: <"<yoland"@eleventowns.com>


I would like to thank all involved in Ruyton mailing list and especially Eddie Enblen for letting me know so quickly about finding my lost wallet when walking his dog, Its nice to know people in the village are so helpful and very honest!

Thanks again Eddie

From Nathan Wood of Victoria Cottage

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626


Halloween at Chirk Castle

October

31st                         Haunted happenings at Chirk castle 11am – 4pm Free admission for children in spooky costume Tel 01691 777701

31st                         Castle of Mystery tour Chirk Castle 7pm (Age 15+)  Visit the castle on the spookiest night of the year Booking Essential, cost £10 Tel 01691 777701

Regards

Sue and Sian

 Sian Roberts, Tourism Assistant

Tourist information Centre, Mile End, Oswestry, Shropshire. SY11 4JA

01691 662488      Email: sian.roberts@shropshire.gov.uk

 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Wednesday 23 October 2013

Half term events at Whittington Castle

18th-19th October - Ghost Tours

25th-26th October - Ghost Tours

27th October - Halloween at the Castle event

30th October - Ghost Tours 

31st October - Evening Halloween Event

1st-2nd November - Ghost Tours

17th November - Christmas Gift Fair

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Pumpkin carving at the Darwin Shopping Centre

Message from Alistair Syme.

Youngsters invited to learn pumpkin carving for Halloween

 

 

Shrewsbury’s busy Darwin Shopping Centre has gone pumpkin potty as it gears up for a spooktacular Halloween celebration.

They’ve taken delivery of a pile of giant pumpkins and will be staging special half-term Halloween pumpkin carving classes at a workshop at the centre on Wednesday, October 30.

The Shrewsbury Shopping Centres’ community co-ordinator, Maggie Love, has also kitted herself out with genuine American-style safety pumpkin parers and is issuing an invitation to local youngsters under 12 to get creative.

As well as the pumpkin carving workshop on Halloween Day, Thursday, October 31, the Centres will be staging a special Trek and Treat fancy dress event attended by the Mayor of Shrewsbury, Councillor John Tandy.

He will lead the children on tour of participating stores which will be handing out goodies before judging the fancy dress competition with prizes for five to eight and nine to 12 age groups.

Maggie Love said: “It’s going to be great fun and we’ve already got a fantastic window display at the community unit on the Darwin Centre’s Middle Level which is where we’ll be carving the pumpkins.

“The pumpkin-carving workshop will be from 11am to 4pm on Wednesday and they’re something I’ve been doing for ten years and I use a lot of American tools and patterns.

“Marks and Spencer have done me a good deal and donated 30 pumpkins as well and we’ve got our own pumpkin patch here in a special window display at the Darwin Centre.

“When the pumpkin is carved it becomes a Jack’o’Lantern and the legend is that Jack is a lost soul and the light in the pumpkin guides him safely home so it’s a very positive thing.”

Thursday will see the Mayor lead the Trek and Treat parade to which youngsters are invited to come in fancy dress and the Mayor will judge the age group competitions with the winners getting a tasty chocolate prize from Pride Hill Centre store Green Ginger.

Kevin Lockwood, Manager of the Darwin, Pride Hill and Riverside Shopping Centres, said: “We’ve got lots of stores taking part in the Darwin and Pride Hill Centres and as it’s half term we’re hoping for a really good turnout.


--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Loads going on at Oswestry Library

Message from Pam Johnson.

Oswestry Library November Events for Adults 2013

             

 

Wednesdays

 

 

Mondays 10-12

&Fridays 1.30-4

 

 

Saturday  2

 

 

 

Free weekly IT help sessions

1:1 sessions for help with your computing problems.  Book with Library staff

 

 

 

Family and Local History Group drop- in sessions for help with your family and local history enquiries

 

 

Basket making workshop  10am – 4pm  £35 to include all materials  bring and share lunch.

Make a basket in a day.  Book place with library staff

 

Saturday 9

 

 

Thursday

14 & 28

 

Joy of Sox  1-4pm  £25 (includes all materials and equipment)

Learn to make a pair of socks,  book with Alterknitive 07814211974 becca@alterknitive.co.uk

 

 

Time to Listen 2-3pm

Relax and listen in friendly company as library staff read aloud stories for adults

 

Friday 1 &15

 

 

Wednesday 27

 

 

 

Friday 29

 

 

 

Oswestry Library Work Club 10.30-11.30am

Informal support group for people looking for work.

 

 

Oswestry Library Reading Group 4pm

Ask at library desk for details

 

 

Learning at Lunchtime event – talk on Dormice 12noon-1pm

Shropshire Wildlife Trust talk and Drop in session (11am-12pm)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Displays and exhibitions

Borderland Visual Artists – Graham Mitchell – photography and jewellery

Autumnwatch mammals, Library acrostic poem, Holy Trinity book art display, Christmas cookery, Wilf’s picks,  Movember/men’s health, National Grid,  Oswestry Choral

 

 

 

 

 

Oswestry Hub

Drop in sessions

 

 

 

 

ask at Customer Services desk for details -  Age UK, Shropshire Housing Alliance, Community Health Trust, Just Credit Union, Bromfield Housing, Equity Housing, Jubilee Money Advice, Victim Support, Business Clinics, JobCentrePlus, Fairshare

 oswestry.library@shropshire.gov.uk    01691 677388              Follow us on Twitter @OswestryLibrary


--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

I Spy Trees at the Meres & Mosses

Welcome to Luke Neal who will be sending us lots of information on wildlife events at Ellesmere and the Meres & Mosses.

Meres and Mosses I spy Trees, 30th October, 10.30am – 1pm.

Old Forge, Ellesmere waterway yard, Birch Road,

Ellesmere, SY12 9AA (Canal and River Trust base)

Free!

 Join Rob McBride, TreeHunter, to hear about the Veteran tree hunt project, pour over original maps made during the construction of the canal and on a walk along the canal.

You will learn how to find, identify and record Notable and Veteran trees on this vibrant and fascinating tour.

 Contact Luke Neal for further information and booking.  

Please pass on this email and poster to those who may be interested and advertise through your networks, Thanks!

 Luke Neal, Community Officer, Meres and Mosses Landscape Partnership Scheme

c/o Shropshire Wildlife Trust, 193 Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AH

Tel 01743 284275, luken@shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk

www.themeresandmosses.co.uk

   

‘This programme has been supported by HLF, Defra, Northern Marches LEADER, The Jean Jackson Charitable Trust, DCLG, Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, and Natural England.’
--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Christmas meals at The Talbot

Message from Leanne at The Talbot.

CHRISTMAS LUNCH at the TALBOT INN, Ruyton XI Towns
Five courses followed by coffee and mince pies at £77.50 per person
50% Children`s discount for under 12s

It is one sitting and tables are to be booked between 12pm and 1pm. I will be closing the bar at 3pm latest. I have the Christmas Party menus to the follow up to Christmas Day and a Christmas Day menu. The follow up Christmas party menu is exceptional, It's £17.95 for two courses and £21.95 for 3 couses.
The Christmas Day serving a 5 course lunch followed by coffee and mince pies at £77.50 per head.     The Christmas Party menu is exceptional, It's £17.95 for two couses and £21.95 for 3 couses.     Christmas Day and Christmas Party menus available from the Talbot.    
--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Monday 21 October 2013

Golden Guitars Music Shop opens in Pride Hill Centre

Message from Alistair Syme.
  GOLDEN GUITARS MUSIC SHOP
opens in Pride Hill Centre
, Shrewsbury

A guitarist who has played with chart-toppers The Specials and Dexy’s Midnight Runners has opened Golden Guitars, a music store in Shrewsbury’s busy Pride Hill Shopping Centre.

Rob Cook-Williams and his band are still regulars on the pub and club circuit in Shropshire and Mid Wales and the 40-year-old is currently working on a CD of his self-penned songs.

Rob and his wife, Karen, who runs the Golden Lion, in Llandysilio, near Welshpool, also operates a thriving mail order music business but the Pride Hill Centre venture is is a first for him.

“I’m a song-writer and guitarist myself so I know the music business really well and I’m also keen to support local artists and bands and hope to have their music on sale here as well.

 “I have a full range of guitars and other musical instruments and equipment and accessories available either here or to order and we’re agents for Marshall amps which are the big name in music systems.

“Even though I am a guitarist and we sell guitars and do guitar set-ups and restringing, that’s not all we do. We’re able to supply all sorts of musical instruments and accessories, from drums to wind instrument reeds.

Rob’s band sees him on guitar alongside ex-Renaissance drummer Phil Beaumont and bass player Brian Snelling, who played with jazz giant Henry Mancini back in the 60s. He also plays with another local band, White Noise, and guests at live gigs with other groups.

“I’ve played in bands and I’ve taught and I used to do demos for guitar makers at events like Music Live at the NEC. I’ve even played with members of The Specials, Selecter and Dexy’s Midnight Runners.

“The beauty of it is that you can take up the guitar at any age. Lots of people decide to learn when they’re in their 40s, 50s or 60s because they’ve got more time than they had when they were young and guitars are now so reasonably priced.

“I’ve even taught a lady of 76 to play the mandolin so age is no barrier. If you’ve got the music in you then it will come out.”

The young Rob graduated from a steel-string acoustic Spanish-style guitar – “so big I could hardly get my ams round it” – to an electric guitar at the age of 16 and was soon in his first band.

“I’m self-taught and I teach guitar as well and we give lessons in the store or privately. We’ve even got booths in the store if you want your lesson in private.

“Guitars are so much better and more affordable today. For about £100 you can have a perfectly good, playable guitar and the quality control is much better than it was.

“Years ago if you paid that much then it would sounds terrible and bits would be falling off.”

His own pride and joy is a vintage Fender Stratocaster, the first choice axe of guitar gods like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and Rob said: “I’ve tried others and they’ve been good but I’ve always gone back to the old Strat – it’s usually the one I play at gigs.”

For more on Rob Cook Williams and Golden Guitars go to www.reverbnation.com/robcookwilliams, www.goldenguitars.co.uk (under construction) and www.goldenguitars.net
--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

How the Mailing List can help

THE LOST WALLET

11.22am, yesterday, Sunday 20th October
                    Eric sent me an email saying he had found a wallet on the Brownhill, could I                         please circulate the Mailing List.

12.12  I send an email round the Mailing saying a wallet had been found with the name
                    Nathan Russel Wood.

12.34  I received an email from Les Foster, the Vicar, saying he knew Nathan and                             would go to his house to tell him his wallet had been found.

I received a phone call from a very grateful Nathan`s father and was able to give him Eric`s                     phone number.

13.15  I received an email from Eric to say he had spoken to Nathan who would be calling                         round to pick up the wallet.

Nathan`s Dad, Darren, was so impressed that he will be joining the mailing list as soon as his computer is repaired.

I think that is pretty impressive, I hope you do too.  Please tell your friends & neighbours this story and get them to email  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk and I will put them on the Mailing list





--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Boxercise classes start TONIGHT

Reminder from Rob O`Keefe.

KEEP FIT THE
BOXERCISE WAY

A new Boxercise class is starting in Ruyton Village Hall
on Monday 21st October - THAT`S TONIGHT!

A fun, circuit based, non contact exercise class suitable for all.  Using boxing training techniques, a safe way to tone up and lose weight.

Class delivered by a qualified instructor who is also head coach at Salopian Amateur Boxing club.

Classes to be held Monday evenings at Ruyton XI Towns Village Hall at 7pm. 
Contact rob on  01691 768 074 or search for Salopian abc on face book

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Sunday 20 October 2013

Re: URGENT - FOUND WALLET

Sorry, I should have given you Eddie`s email address:
   
On 20/10/2013 12:08, Yoland Brown wrote:
Message from Eddie Enblen.

Whilst out walking the dogs this morning I found a wallet on the pavement over the road from the broadplace/outside the vicarage.
 
It has some cards in it with the name 'Nathan Russell Wood' and some cash.
 
Do you know this person or if not perhaps you could send an email circular so we can return it to the rightful owner?

        This is, hopefully, exactly what the mailing list
can help - please use it.
 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

URGENT - FOUND WALLET

Message from Eddie Enblen.

Whilst out walking the dogs this morning I found a wallet on the pavement over the road from the broadplace/outside the vicarage.
 
It has some cards in it with the name 'Nathan Russell Wood' and some cash.
 
Do you know this person or if not perhaps you could send an email circular so we can return it to the rightful owner?

        This is, hopefully, exactly what the mailing list
can help - please use it.
 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Friday 18 October 2013

Meet the Artist

A Message from Debbie Marais, Oswestry Library

A chance to meet Mary Cunnah,  a local artist whose exhibition

                                            “BOUNTIFUL INHERITANCE”

 is on show until the beginning of November in the Borderland Visual Artists gallery at Oswestry Library.

 Meet the artist   11am-1pm  Wednesday 30 October   Free drop-in event  Oswestry Library

 "Bountiful Inheritance" concerns the settlement of Sycharth which was the home of Welsh Prince Owain Glyndwr in the C14th depicted in oil paint, etchings and collagraphs by local artist Mary Cunnah." 

The works on display are part of an exhibition entitled  "Bountiful Inheritance" and refers to the settlement of Sycharth in the Cynllaith Valley which Owain Glyndwr inherited on the death of his father. In the 14th century the whole valley was like a Garden of Eden. Thanks to the famous travelling Welsh poet Iolo Gogh we know great details about the fortified  house, settlement and the surrounding area. However in 1403 Prince Hal destroyed it all by fire and now little remains of that fabulous estate but the mound and bailey in the middle of a field.

Debbie Marais, Branch Manager, Oswestry Library

Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1RP

01691 677388
--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Friends of The Corbet School

THE CORBET SCHOOL FRIENDS ASSOCIATION
AGM

Issue date : 26/09/13

The Corbet Parents Association

Registered Charity No. 1056272

Annual General Meeting

Thursday 24th October 2013 7.30pm

Venue:  Library at the Corbet School

AGENDA

1.      Welcome

2.      Approval of Minutes of last year’s AGM and matters arising

3.      Chairperson's Report

4.      Treasurer’s report

5.      Headteacher’s report

6.      Election of committee members:

Chair

Vice Chair

Secretary

Treasurer

School Staff Representative

Governor Representative

Co-opted committee members

7.      Future events and development of the Association

8.      Future committee meeting dates

9.      AOB


--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626