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The big event this month is Village Day on Saturday the 20th of June. Let’s hope for scorching hot weather! ..and do not forget to get training for the races…!
Also here’s some information about proposed election division boundary changes to our area. There is a public review on these changes.
Don’t forget to check the Village Website for news of events.
https://www.horningsea.net/archives/category/events
There’s the Twitter account too….
This year’s Village Day will be on the Saturday 20th of June. The day will start at 14:00 with the official opening by the manager of the Plough and Fleece.
The BBQ will be ready for cooking at 6.30. Bring your own wine and food to cook on the BBQ.
There will be music to dance to throughout evening and the beacon will be lit to provide illumination!
Here’s May’s Herald.
The Annual General Meeting of the Horningsea Village Hall and Millennium Green Trusts will be held in the Village Hall.
All welcome!
At St Peter’s Church
Bell ringing taster session – come and give it a try!
See if you’d like to join the bell ringing team as a learner.
Teas served
70th Anniversary of VE Day St Peters Church Horningsea
On Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May there will be an exhibition of “Children of the War”.
If you were a child during the War and remember rationing, eating your first banana, gas masks, evacuees, air raids, the real Dads Army…. If you have any photographs, school reports, memorabilia, toys or books… If you can write a short note of your recollections…. Please let Lindsay know, drop your contribution into the Church on Saturday 2nd May.. Please make sure you put a label on any item, or take a copy of any precious photograph… so we can make sure you get your items back after the exhibition.
Sunday 10 May at 11am: Special Commemorative Service,when one of the special ceramic poppies from the Tower of London will on display.
Sunday 10 May 2 – 4.30 pm: Horningsea village school reunion
Sunday 10 May 2.30 – 4.30 pm: Bell ringing taster session –
come and see if you’d like to join the bell ringing team as a learner!
Teas served on Sunday afternoon
Please celebrate the anniversary of VE day with the HRA:
May 9th 2015
16:00 to 23:45
Come eat drink and be merry with the rest of the village to celebrate this anniversary. The evening will be jam packed with lots of memorabilia
The BBQ will be ready for cooking at 17:00. Please bring a plate of “wartime food”!
If you want some ideas for “wartime” food here’s a some suitable recipes.
The HRA are planning, and preparing, the“dig for victory” garden in time for the VE celebrations this year. So far the garden has been ploughed with appropriately aged machinery, the garden has been rotavated and many village groups have planted various vegetables and fruit bushes… with a few wild flowers too!
Here’s a few photos:
In St Peter’s Church, Horningsea
The Road to Mandalay…. Where mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun…. a journey into Myanmar – an illustrated lecture by Lindsay Davies.
Travelling down the Salween and Irrawaddy Rivers…. visiting Colonial parts of the towns… wandering around villages near the Thai borders (but not where the land mines have not yet been cleared…. )
looking at the markets and museums ….some of the differently dressed tribal people,monks and nuns…. discussing the future challenges with journalists, ambassadors, British Council, professors at the University… Enjoying sunsets from roof tops of Pagodas, visiting nurseries and schools, Baptist Churches and Catholic Cathedrals… Golden rocks, golden domes, golden stupas … caves with Buddhas and caves with hundreds of thousands of bats….
Placing a cross on the memorial stone for Thomas Bailey saying “Remembered in Horningsea”
…. and more!
Come along and enjoy the lecture and the pictures!
