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KINGSWEAR DIARY • 4th
December - Kingswear Christmas Lights switch on.
5.30pm Carols outside Kingswear station followed by mince pies, mulled wine and Santa in the Village Hall. • 6th
December - ell’s angels present ‘angel Delight’ – Christmas carols
December - save the Children Carol concert in the church. Carols sung by Ell’s Angels and Christmas readings by children.
• 18th 24th December - 10am Christmas service
WI TRIUMPHS A few weeks ago Kingswear WI celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the WI. (Tony Blair please remember!) Our village ladies girded their loins to provide an event appropriate to Devon customs, a Devon cream tea. Nearly 70 people from the village, WI members from
Galmpton, Brixham and Stoke Gabriel and passing visitors gathered to escape the rain and enjoy a warm welcome and a cream tea. There were plenty of homemade cakes, a raffle and an exhibition of local and national WI archives. Everyone had a good time and all were very appreciative. Please note that that the WI also had a Sausage, Mash
when the members, plus a few tame partners who have the courage, will enjoy Shepherd’s Pie and will be entertained by the Brixham choir, Quay Harmony. They will be presenting a Christmas themed programme. I am told that tickets are all sold so if you want to go you’ll have to press your cold little nose up against the window from outside! Other matters have just been sent to me by The
and Pudding evening in the Village hall on Saturday 14th November. Smiles all round there you may be sure. This year the ladies have decided not to have the usual Christmas Fayre but they are organising a grand trip up to Lupton House. This is to take place on December 14th
Management so I will send them verbatim, even though the time sequence is a little bit out with the above.
The members of Kingswear WI met on October 21st to hear Ian Hanford from Torbay Civic Trust give a fascinating account of the Life and Times
by Mike Trevorrow
of Ella Rowcroft, whose name must be familiar to all who live in Torbay but few have any knowledge of her background. This remarkable lady was an heiress of the Wills Tobacco Company and used much of her fortune to endow hospital wards and eventually the Rowcroft Hospice. The irony of the health implications of smoking was not lost upon us but Ella came from a time when smoking was encouraged and thought to be glamorous and sophisticated. On Wednesday November 18th
the WI welcomed back John Risdon, one
of our most popular speakers, who talked about ‘Scilly, The beguiling Isles’. The year will end with our annual Christmas Party on December 16th
when food and fun will be had by
all. Funny how food comes up so often in these reports!
Save the Children will be having the annual Carol Concert in Kingswear Church on Friday 18th
SAVE THE CHILDREN AT CHRISTMAS December at 6.30pm.
There will be carols sung by Ell’s Angels and Christmas readings by children. You will then all be very welcome at the Trust Rooms for mulled wine and mince pies. Tickets are not required but there will be a collection in aid of Save the Children and FroST. That’s Friday December 18th
. COUNCIL MATTERS
It is tempting to entitle this piece ‘News from the Trenches’ but I would not trivialise the real suffering of war; however, matters in the parish council have seemed bitter and entrenched in the past weeks. Great negativity has been visited upon the council, firstly from the playground debacle and then from the ‘poll’ against three of the councillors, meaning that blood has figuratively been shed, claws have been sharpened and sent slashing and bodies have been felled.
There has been a very clear splitting of the village into two camps, one in favour of the playground, the other against. Reactions against the playground opposition were vigorous and angry, resulting in the poll or petition, call it what you will, being brought about to show the opinions of 33 residents who signed it initially. This poll centred on three co-opted councillors who were accused in the poll of failing to represent public opinion, but seeking to pursue their own opposition to the playground through the medium of parish council meetings, which they have denied. The fall-out from this action has been a cause of much division in the community; one development was the retraction of the contents of the poll by the 33 with an apology for hurt caused. The threat of suing all 33 (32 in practice) was made for defamation of character and neither side wished to follow that line in reality, which occasioned the apology.
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