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COMMENT
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The magazine of the Churches in Tring
IN THIS ISSUE • What is community? • New Mill 360 party • Didier Jaquet
licensed to Tring • Ordination of Graham White • Fun at Fish Club
• Children’s Society fundraising events • Science and faith • Are the British
obsessed with class? • New Parish Church website • Churches Together
in tents • Mothers’ Union Garden Party • Tweet of the month •
Justice, peace and puddings • In memory of Donald Cartwright
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New Mill 360
Opening of the new hall
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Concert by the Max Choir
3.00 pm
Letter from the Editor
I have
fantastic
news: I
have been
offered an
unconditional
place to
study
Publishing Media at Oxford
Brookes University starting this
month. Brookes is renowned for its
publishing degrees, so I am ecstatic
to have been accepted on to their
course. This is a year earlier than
I had originally planned, but after
visiting the university on an open
day and talking to the lecturers, I
feel that starting my studies this year
is the right move for me. This will
mean moving to Oxford, so sadly I
am stepping down from my role as
Editor of Comment.
Editing Comment has been a
joy. I have learnt to use computer
programs that I previously hadn’t a
clue about. Whilst putting it together
to the deadline has been challenging,
sometimes involving creating
content to fill the spaces and many
nights where I have been up till silly
o’clock in the morning editing, I have
revelled in the opportunity to explore
this role. Working alongside the
COMMENT team has been fantastic.
I have enjoyed many laughs and it
has been a great opportunity to meet
other members of the parish. I will
most definitely miss being part of a
fab team of people and working on
the magazine.
Since becoming ill in 2012 I have
never lived on my own, so moving
to university and learning to cope on
my own will be my new challenge.
It is one that I mostly welcome, as it
will signal a positive leap forwards;
however, the thought also scares me
as this could mean more hospital
trips (hopefully not) for me. I feel safe
in the knowledge that the university
is disabled friendly, and there will be
help on hand should I ever need it.
I shall hopefully see many of you
on my visits home, but for now I look
forwards in anticipation on my new
journey.
Rebecca Moller
Archdeacon licenses Didier Jaquet
On Sunday
28 June,
St Cross,
Wilstone,
was very
pleased to
welcome the
Archdeacon
of St Albans, Revd Jonathon Smith,
to the church for the licensing of
Revd Didier Jaquet to the Tring
Team Parish. Didier has been given
special responsibility for St Cross
and everyone at St Cross is very
appreciative of his commitment to
the church and the wider village. We
are looking forward to his ministry
within the community.
The 28 June was also the
patronal festival of St Peter and St
Paul, and the deep red and gold altar
cloth, coupled with the Archdeacon’s
beautiful red and gold ceremonial
cope, made for a splendid sight
against the all-white walls of St
Cross. The fact that the icing on the
celebratory cake was also red was
pure coincidence!
A full church enjoyed an uplifting
and interesting service, culminating
in Didier’s licensing. The Archdeacon
spoke of the similarities and
differences between St Peter and
St Paul, emphasising the need and
scope within the church for a wide
variety of ministry and faith. He
mentioned his own journey from
ordination to his current role within
the Diocese, and the many options
and choices to be considered along
the way.
Following the service the
Archdeacon officiated at the cutting
of the cake, and then mingled with
the congregation, chatting and
enjoying the refreshments. He was
particularly grateful for the spread
as he hadn’t had any breakfast!
During many conversations, one of
the topics raised was the importance
of Diocesan visits, especially to
parishes like the Tring Team which
are on the western fringes of the
diocese and can sometimes seem a
long way from the central axis. For a
small church like St Cross this visit
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made an important occasion extra
special and we hope more diocesan
visitors will head this way in the
future. They, along with everyone
who comes to St Cross, will be made
very welcome.
And just to complete our day,
the village of Wilstone had Open
Gardens that afternoon and the
church was one of the recipients of
the fundraising, nominated by the
organisers of the Open Gardens
Team. Apart from being very grateful
for such kindness and generosity,
we were also very pleased at the
emphasis placed on St Cross as
part of the village community,
appreciated by people who are not
necessarily regular church-goers.
Alison Cockerill
What makes a community?
This summer
has seen the
community
of Tring
celebrate
the 700th
anniversary
of being
given its market charter. There have
been some fantastic events with the
community of Tring coming together
to celebrate.
The celebrations made me think
of some of the places where I have
lived and whether a similar event
could be held in them. I could see
it happening in some of the towns,
but certainly not everywhere. The
community that Tring has is not
unique, but is not present in every
town across our country. Yet it
seems to me that that is a real
shame, that communities need to be
valued and encouraged. Where there
is a community, a town generally
feels a friendlier place to live, people
speak to and help their neighbours
and there are more opportunities
for people who may otherwise feel
isolated to be included.
But what is a community?
Three ideas that I found are that: a
community generally has something
in common (e.g. a concern for their
town); a community does things
together, usually involving the
thing they have in common (e.g.
the carnival, the civic service and
procession); a community reaches
out to new people and draws them
in (e.g. the 700th anniversary leaflets
that were delivered to each house).
Communities are good things, but
can also have their problems: people
disagree and fall out, people become
disillusioned, or feel neglected,
groups become insular and focused
only on themselves. For communities
to be successful takes time, energy,
commitment and a willingness to
forgive.
The church has been working
on building ‘community’ for many
centuries, but I don’t think any of
us would say that we are totally
successful. When we look through
our Bibles there are numerous
occasions where people have fallen
out with each other, and still it
continues, and yet our commitment
to God joins us in a powerful way,
with Paul writing to the people in
Corinth describing the church as
the body of Christ. We need to
continually make efforts to build
community.
One website I found came up with
these ideas to help build community:
participate in random acts of
kindness; acknowledge a passer-by
in your neighbourhood or at work;
attend community events; volunteer;
meet your neighbours; buy from local
merchants; make an extra effort to
talk with someone who may have a
different background or perspective
from your own; support schools,
which tend to be cornerstones in
a thriving community; organise
or attend a neighbourhood or
community party; spend less time
on the internet or watching television
and more time outside; join a club or
other social organization; personally
greet newcomers to your community.
I hope that this gives you some ideas
on how you could help improve
community in your church and in our
town. It’s certainly made me want to
try to do better.
In the story of Adam and Eve, Eve
is created because God said that it
was not good for Adam to be alone.
I believe that God wants us to be
social people, loving and supporting
each other. Henri Nouwen looks at
the story of the Good Samaritan in
his book ‘Bread for the Journey’
and comments that ‘My neighbour
is the one who crosses the road for
me’. Let’s continue to celebrate our
community of Tring by supporting it
in whatever way we are able.
Blessings,
Rachael Hawkins
and on one weekend we have five
weddings, which is causing the bell
ringers a little stress as they race
between Tring and Puttenham to ring
for them. (Thanks to Professor John
Lippitt and Dr Sylvie Magerstädt
whose photo illustrates this article.)
It also means the choir might
have to sit through four (I’m not
conducting all the weddings myself)
very similar sermons as they listen
to the Rector’s wedding addresses.
This is always a challenge at
weddings – how to make each
wedding entirely personal to the
couple and relevant to their special
day, while acknowledging that similar
themes will come up, not least about
the nature of love.
Over the years I have come to
believe that what is important to talk
about when we are speaking of love
Love is…
We are in
the middle
of a bumper
season of
weddings at
St Peter and
St Paul’s and
across the
Tring Team Parish. There have been
a number of Sundays when we have
been publishing eight sets of banns
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is that it is about love being both
vulnerable and sacrificial, neither
of which are particularly popular
terms in our modern society. We are
often aware that Christian love is
described as being sacrificial: that is
what the cross is all about. But what
about vulnerability?
Our understanding of vulnerability
starts with the nature of God’s selfrevelation of God’s self to us. God
doesn’t come in an act of great
power with a mighty army or military
leader. God chooses to reveal
God’s self in a human baby, weak
and vulnerable as we all are at the
beginning of life. Wedding couples
can often be incredibly nervous. Part
of the nervousness comes from the
fear of being hurt. They are risking
everything; they are very vulnerable.
But of course the joy of the intimacy
of married life is that each person is
in the same position. You both trust
each other with your future, you trust
each other with all your dreams,
your past hurts and your hopes and
because if you each do the same for
each other you do not end up hurting
each other. Instead, by making
yourselves vulnerable you find a new
self, enable each other to grow and
become a new person, the person
that you truly are – to find your true
potential. To be able to love, you
need to allow yourself to be loved,
to be able to care for each other you
need to allow yourself to be cared
for. Love needs us to be vulnerable:
we need to let each other in.
So vulnerability might well be
fine for married life, but does it go
further? We can turn to the biblical
understanding to see what St Paul
makes of it. We are very used to
reading Paul’s first letter to the
Corinthians at weddings, but Peter
Graystone, a Church Army minister
who oversees pioneering projects
that take the Gospel to those beyond
normal church boundaries, makes
some interesting observations about
Paul’s second letter too.
He makes the observation that
in Greek mythology, Hercules slew
giants, captured beasts and fathered
enough children to fill a primary
school. If you lived in Corinth in
the first century, you were brought
up with that as your role model for
heroism. So it was obvious what a
Christian leader should do to earn
your respect. He should order you
around, swagger like a grandee and
slap you if you stepped out of line.
There were Christians in Corinth
asserting their leadership by doing
just that. At the same time there was
a puny little guy who kept getting
arrested, flogged, starved, betrayed,
and when he had a chance to stand
up and fight preferred to escape
by hiding in a vegetable basket.
Pathetic!
However, something unexpected
happened after Paul wrote these
words. The leadership style that
he espoused became the one
that allowed the Christian faith to
prosper. Occasionally during the
history of the faith, Christian leaders
have made attempts to establish
their authority using the Hercules
method. Without exception they
have been catastrophic. Think of the
Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition
or any number of warmongers. In
contrast, unchurched people come
to faith when what Paul jokingly
called ‘weak’ Christians share their
lives and stories with their friends.
Why? Because people the world
over respond to integrity. Staying
faithful to Jesus through hardship
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speaks powerfully of the blessing of
going through life in the company of
a good and loving God.
When one steps back and looks
at some of the bad behaviour in our
communities, one wonders how
much is about not accepting our
vulnerability.
Teachers will often talk about
aggressive parents (not all parents
by a long stretch – but enough for
it to be a common theme amongst
teachers). One wonders if this is
because the parents are so fearful
of doing the wrong thing for their
children that their fear is expressed
in some Herculean struggle with
the authorities. What would it look
like instead if they expressed their
vulnerability? Likewise, who has
been put under stress and pressure
at work by an aggressive manager?
However, is this aggression born
out of their insecurities and lack of
confidence? What would the work
place look like if they shared their
vulnerabilities and weakness and
invited others in? God’s love is
vulnerable. Vulnerability does mean
risking getting hurt, but it also opens
up the greatest opportunity for
growth.
(Peter Graystone is one of the
contributors to Reflections for Daily
Prayer which is an app available for
both Android and Apple devices.
This article draws on his reflection
from 21 July.)
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Are the British obsessed by class?
This was
the title of
a course
recently
conducted by
Dr Caroline
Ellwood,
supported
by the Rector, Huw Bellis. It gave the
participants plenty to think about. In
the first century the apostle Paul, in
one of his letters to the Corinthians,
wrote, ‘The man who got much had
no more than enough, and the man
who got little did not go short’. In the
nineteenth century Karl Marx said,
‘From each according to his ability,
to each according to his needs’.
Yet in the twentieth century George
Orwell wrote ‘All men are equal, but
some are more equal than others’.
It isn’t difficult to find countless
quotes to support both those points
of view and almost everyone has
their own opinion on the subject. But
is it actually possible to bring about
‘equality’? When stripped to bare
essentials people LOOK different,
FEEL different emotions and have
different AIMS. To achieve equality,
force of one kind or another has
to be used. And the anticipated or
hoped for ‘classless society’ lasts for
only a very short time.
During the course Dr Ellwood
asked us all to write down which
‘class’ we felt we belonged to. There
were only two people (out of about
thirty) who didn’t claim to be ‘middle
class’. That number in itself is not
significant in the circumstances.
But if she had asked us to give
reasons for our answers, how much
consensus would there have been? I
suspect not very much.
In history, both in England and
elsewhere, ‘class’ was more clearly
defined than it is now, but that is not
to say that class systems were never
criticised – the Peasants’ Revolt,
French and Russian Revolutions, for
example, are evidence of that. So
long as ‘class’ exists it will be cause
for complaint, criticism, defence and
even rebellion or revolution. And
people generally, including those in
Britain, will be concerned, bothered
or critical of the system, if not
necessarily ‘obsessed’.
Dorothy Townshend
Parish Registers
Baptisms
We welcome these children into
our church family and pray for their
parents and Godparents.
Weddings
We offer our congratulations and
pray for these couples as they begin
their lives together.
Ruby Mary Blake
Victoria Daffodil Mary Rheeder
Ben Patrick Weaver
Charlotte Plose
Ava Sugden
Jacob John Arthur
Ava Elizabeth Jane Mcconnell
Aubree Tanner
Mary Tanner
Glenn Tanner
Richard Mckearney &
Julia Czuprynska
Peter James Howard Godden &
Caroline Beatrice Natasha Purse
Funerals
We thank God for the lives of the
departed and pray for comfort for
those who mourn.
Peter William Gilmour, 47
Terence Ian Mendum, 79
Jaqueline Wood, 76
Colin Knowles, 84
Laurence Neville Richardson, 94
Barbara Lieselotte Pitt, 70
Emily Jane Icke, 25
Don Cartwright, 87
Francis Joseph Dalzell, 85
Frederick Arthur Turney, 91
Evelyn Senior, 93
Irene Baldwin, 100
Jill Aldridge, 89
Giacomo Natella, 53
Bryn (Brian) Johnson, 80
St Peter &
St Paul’s
flower rota
High Altar
6 September Jo Ford
13 September Linda Mepham
20 September Libby McKerrow
27 September Pat Tapson
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Lady Chapel
6 September Jane Blake
13 September Margaret Wilson
20 September Pat Tapson
27 September Janet Goodyer
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New Mill 360: come to our party!
I think Health
and Safety
would have
a nightmare
if we tried to
blow out 360
candles! I’ve
made cakes
with fifty candles, and the first that
have been lit are already starting to
melt by the time you finish lighting
the last...
So, 360 – it’s one heck of a big
number, and not something one
does every day. We at New Mill
Baptist would like to celebrate a
bit; celebrate that for over half the
time Tring has had a Market Town
Charter, New Mill has had a Baptist
Church. Our history is woven into
the strands of everyday life over the
years and continues to be so. We are
therefore planning a day to celebrate
and invite all the area to come and
see how best we can continue to be
a part of the New Mill life and a link
within Tring itself.
There are still a number of folk
who like to emphasise the fact that
we are clearly New Mill and not
Tring! As a relatively new resident
I would have to disagree. For me
this is a time of renewal, of giving
thanks for all that God has done in
New Mill up to now and to look to
him for guidance for the future. We
don’t want to keep this to ourselves,
so we’d like to invite you to a big
birthday party!
Over the past few months (it feels
like years…) we have been altering
the inside of our building to make
it a more practical space. We have
added an internal staircase and
created a new space upstairs in what
used to be known as the School
Room. There is now an upstairs toilet
with a small kitchenette and plenty
of storage – and it’s still a big space!
We still have access upstairs via the
external stairs from the graveyard
and this has had a stair lift added
to it – so there are no excuses for
not coming to look at what we’ve
been doing – we hope to cater for all
needs.
Do come and celebrate on
Saturday 26 September between
11.00 and 4.00pm, bring your friends
and family and let’s praise God for
his goodness to us that never ends.
Kate Openshaw
Thank you, Tring!
A big Thank You to everyone in
Tring who has made Helen, Saffron,
Max and I welcome so far. Thanks
especially to those who came to
the ordination service in St Albans
on Sunday 5 July: it was a brilliant
event. Thank you also to all who took
the responsibility to stay behind and
hold the fort in St Peter and St Paul’s
so that the usual Sunday events
were able to happen uninterrupted.
I also want to thank those who
brought us food, drink and other
sustenance whilst we were moving
in to our new home in Tring. It
was very helpful and timely during
that manic period surrounded by
cardboard boxes with small children
trying to play hide and seek in them!
Hopefully as the dust now begins
to settle, I look forward to working
across the team and picking up
valuable learning in ministry while I’m
here. My hope is that by God’s grace
and with his help we can all move
forward, grow, develop and flourish
over the next few years and into the
future.
Every blessing and thanks again.
Graham White
The Editorial Team would like to thank all the local photographers who have contributed to this special edition
including Leslie Barker, Bea Bingham, Ben Cartwright, Vivianne Child, Krystyna Hewitt, Stephen Kitchener, Andrew
Openshaw, Ted Oram, David Sands, Bob Spriggs and Margaret Whiting.
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1. A garden, but not Eden (10)
8. Where the choir normally sit (7)
9. Agreement to stop fighting (5)
10. Throw out (4)
11. Spruced up (8)
13. Come together (5)
14. Sound of the bells (5)
16. Each of the chosen 12 (8)
17. ‘Tell it not in ….’ (4)
20. Fragrance (5)
15. Memorial tablet (6)
21. Questions (7)
22 Saying sorry (10)
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2. Sinner (12)
3. Dismissal (4)
4. Processor of wheat (6)
5. Small bird (8)
6. Earnest request (12)
7. Annoy (6)
12. Priest, not married (8)
13. Noon (6)
15. Memorial tablet (6)
18. ‘More ….. less speed’ (5)
19. Period of abstinence (4)
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The Franciscan Choir concert
The first
Franciscan
Choir concert
took place
at St Peter
and St Paul’s
Church in
Tring one
damp June evening. No, we are not
an order of musical monks, but a
group of children and ladies ranging
from five to over fifty-five years. We
are all former pupils, staff or parents
of Francis House Preparatory
School, which sadly closed suddenly
last year.
Francis House had a very
strong musical tradition, led by the
extremely talented and enthusiastic
Mrs Julie Stanley. When the school
closure was announced, several
parents approached Mrs Stanley to
ask if she would be willing to run a
choir, both as a way of continuing
the children’s choral work and of
keeping in touch. Happily, she
agreed, and about fifty of us met
last September for our first session,
held in a barn belonging to a former
Francis House parent, which is
where we continue to rehearse.
At the first session it was decided
that we would perform a nativity
in December for our families in
the barn. It was a bit of a squash,
but hugely enjoyable. However,
we felt a larger venue would work
even better and so we were very
pleased to be able to use Tring
Parish Church for our first concert.
The programme included ‘Captain
Noah and his Floating Zoo’ and a
selection of other favourites, notably
‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, Rutter’s
‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’,
‘Consider Yourself…’ and ‘We are
One’ which was the Francis House
School song.
As we only meet once a fortnight
in term time, what had seemed to
be weeks of practice turned out to
be about ten rehearsals. Mrs Stanley
requested that all the words were
to be learnt and we discovered
that children are much better at
memorising words than adults so
books were allowed for us. However,
we also noticed that Mrs Stanley had
a cunning knack of introducing some
choreography into songs so we had
to put our books down!
Included in the programme was
Adele’s ‘Make You Feel My Love’
which the ladies sang as a backing
group for the delightful soloist
Elizabeth Brown, former Francis
House pupil and chorister at St Peter
and St Paul’s.
The concert was well supported
by families and friends, and also
by members of the church and
community, and we enjoyed having
such an appreciative audience. The
Franciscan Choir also has an army
of willing mums who turn up each
rehearsal and provide biscuits and
juice, and for the concert provided
Pimms and an impressive array of
cakes. As someone told us: ‘The
concert sounded really good and
the energy and precision with which
things were being delivered was
most impressive’.
We held a retiring collection
for The Children’s Society, one of
charities supported by the church,
and raised over £470.
Gill Kinsey
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Tring Church Choir…
Would like to recruit some more adult voices, male
and female.
Are you hoping to go to University or College in
2016, but are concerned that financial resources
might not match up to the requirements? Are you
under the age of 22? Have you lived in Aldbury,
Long Marston, Marsworth, Pitstone, Puttenham,
Tring, Wigginton or Wilstone for at least three
years?
We practise on Friday
evenings.
We sing
• on most Sunday
mornings and Church festivals
• at some weddings and occasionally at funerals
To see if you would be eligible for a grant,
apply to Tring Charities’ Millennium Education
Foundation for information and an application
form.
• plus occasional celebrations and special events
If you enjoy singing with like-minded others, talk
to any of the present choir members or contact
Organist and Choirmaster, Cliff Brown, at
[email protected] to find out
more.
Website: www.tringcharities.co.uk/education
Tel: Elaine Winter, Secretary to the Trustees
01442 827913
Email: [email protected]
Please note that the closing date is 15 November
2015 to lodge a completed application for grants
payable from Autumn 2016.
Megastick Sunday
For the last two years I have walked
just over thirteen miles in good
company between the five churches
in the Tring Team on what is now
known as Megastick Sunday.
I am not fit. I am not young. I do
not walk regularly and this outing
usually brings me blisters and
aching muscles. It is nothing like as
impressive as the run done by Huw
Bellis and Richard Abel but for me
it is a challenge and I undertake it
partly for the company of my fellow
walkers and partly to raise money.
This year we are walking for Christian
Aid.
On Sunday 20 September I will
be walking again in the year of a
significant birthday milestone. Will
you sponsor me? There is a greater
challenge in 2015 as last year a
generous sponsor offered to match
whatever I raised from other sources.
This person has fled the country
having been bankrupted by the
generosity of the people of Tring!
So not only do I need sponsors but
I am wondering if there is any other
generous sponsor who could make
the same matching offer? Surely,
with your help, we can raise even
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more for this important charity.
Please email me at
[email protected] or
through the pigeon holes in St Peter
& St Paul if you can sponsor me or
are able to match the total funding I
raise.
Annette Reynolds
Methodist notes
Bike and
Hike
This year’s
event is
planned for
Saturday 12
September
(10.00am till
6.00pm) for cyclists and walkers to
visit local churches in Herts, Beds
and Bucks. Apart from sponsorship
support to bikers and walkers,
volunteers are invited to provide
refreshments at St Martha’s for those
calling at the Church. If you could
help out for even an hour’s slot,
please sign the list in the Church
entrance hall, or speak to the senior
steward.
No
washout
for the
children’s
society
Harvest festival weekend
Harvest Festival will be celebrated
at St Martha’s on Sunday 27
September with a service at 10.00am
led by Revd Rachael Hawkins.
Piano concert at St Martha’s
On Saturday 10 October at 7.30pm
there will be a concert of piano
music given by David Berdinner and
friends. The programme will include
works by Grieg, Sibelius and Delius.
Admission is free with a retiring
collection in support of Christian Aid.
David Sands
Sunday 6 September
10.00am Morning Covenant Service
Revd Rachael Hawkins
4.00pm Circuit Celebration Service
at Hemel Hempstead Methodist
Church
Revd Gareth Powell
Sunday 13 September
10.00am Morning Service
Kirsten Lees
Sunday 20 September
10.00am Morning Service
Katie Breedyk
Sunday 27 September
10.00am Harvest Festival Service
Revd Rachael Hawkins
Thank you
to everyone
who joined
us at the
Children’s
Society
Garden Day
at the end of
June. Despite extremely challenging
weather, funds raised on the day
were £1,300; a record number
of boxes were counted yielding
£2,210; and the house-to-house
collection raised £911. This event
marked the end of a good week
for the Children’s Society in Tring
as the concert by the Franciscan
Choir raised a further £470: a total of
£4891 and still counting.
Many thanks to all who
organised, planned, supported and
attended.
Grahame Senior
Fish Club at St Peter & St Paul’s
A luminous
FISH on
a cord to
wear round
a young
person’s
neck is the
small gift I
was able to find to present to the
young people who have attended
a church in our parish or elsewhere
200 times. The message on the FISH
is: JESUS The light of the world:
John 8:12.
200 times is a huge achievement.
At the other end we have a few
toddlers who are now ‘Little
Fishes’, and have received their
first Fish badge for twenty or forty
attendances. The excitement
continues at the end of the Sunday
morning service to get a drink
and biscuit, or maybe a piece of
celebratory cake, and to add a
sticker to their chart – and that’s
not only the children: the person or
people who bring them to church are
just as keen, or maybe more so.
So I must thank the families who
support FISH Club, and give me the
chance to converse with the young
people – ‘it’s such fun’.
Pam Russell
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St Peter and St Paul’s charter fiesta
On Monday 29 June at 7.30pm, St
Peter and St Paul’s Church hosted
a celebration service to mark the
granting of the Market Charter to
Tring 700 years ago.
It was attended by a record
number of people with 663 people
inside the church and hundreds
more in the churchyard during
and after the event who continued
the celebrations with a barbecue,
refreshments and fireworks. Many
thanks to Janet Goodyer and family
who ran the barbecue, Richard
Shardlow and Tring Brewery who
ran the bar, Dave Chatterley and
friends who provided medieval music
and Tring Park Cricket Club who
organised the fireworks, funded by
some TPCC members and Tring
Together. All profits from the evening
went to Tring Child Contact Centre,
one of the charities supported by the
Church.
The service focused on the
Charter, the Mansion and Transport
as elements that deeply affected
the development of Tring. 700 years
in 700 seconds, a whistle stop tour
of Tring’s heritage written by Martin
Wells, Tim Amsden, Emily Wood,
Sue Gore, Steffi Buse, Vivianne Child
and Stephen Hearn and presented
by Hayley and Richard Abel, James
Child and Emily Wood, Annette
Reynolds, Tring School Choir, Sharon
Sanderson, Vivianne Child and
Stephen Hearn.
The Charter
Looking back 700 years, there are no
contemporary maps of Tring in 1315,
but the stone-built church dominated
the centre of the town as it still does
today. The church and the lord of
the manor together regulated every
aspect of people’s lives. The peasant
farm workers had to work on the
extensive land owned by the lord
of the manor or pay rent or provide
services to him for individual plots.
As most people other than
clergy could not read or write, they
learned about the Christian faith from
teaching in church services and by
looking at the colourful statues and
pictures in the church.
Faversham Abbey in north Kent
was founded by King Stephen
and Queen Matilda in 1147. The
connection with Tring is that Queen
Matilda gave the Manor of Tring as
a gift to Faversham Abbey – and the
Abbot of Faversham thereby became
Tring’s lord of the manor.
Although the economy was
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overwhelmingly rural, there was
an increasing demand for goods
and services in the town. A market
enabled peasants to sell surplus
corn and other items. Shops and
stalls sold food, shoes, clothing
and other necessaries. There was
also industry, including blacksmiths,
spinners and weavers of cloth, straw
plaiters, carpenters, millers and other
trades. By 1315 Tring was thriving.
And then came the market town
charter.
Exactly 700 years ago, King
Edward II instructed the Sheriff of
Hertfordshire to enquire whether
there was any good reason not to
grant a charter for the manor of
Tring. In the Middle Ages a charter
was highly prized as it meant official
recognition of a town’s importance
in its local area. Thanks to the
exclusive rights that came with it, a
place could expect to prosper; many
towns without charters withered
away. Evidently the Sheriff was
satisfied, since Tring gained the right
to hold a weekly market (then on a
Tuesday) and a hiring and trading fair
for ten days each year beginning on
the eve of the patronal festival of St
Peter and St Paul (29 June). It also
gave the holder of the charter the
right to prevent the creation of rival
markets within a day’s travel from the
town (about six miles).
The granting of the charter was
a very important event for Tring and
confirmed its status as a prosperous
market town free from the control of
the lord of the manor.
And that’s why we are here, 700
years later, to celebrate 700 years of
Tring’s heritage.
The Tring Tiles
Tring was very busy 700 years ago
as that is the same time the famous
Tring Tiles were made. We can be
very proud of the Tring Tiles as they
are unique in England. They currently
live in the Victoria and Albert and
British Museums and have pride of
place with other precious medieval
artefacts like the Sutton Hoo hoard.
The tiles form a medieval comic
strip about the early life of Jesus:
the biblical equivalent of ‘Dennis the
Menace’. One thing you can learn
from the tiles is that Jesus may be
the Messiah – but he was still a very
naughty boy!
One tile shows Jesus’ early
education. The teacher is getting
annoyed with Jesus while explaining
the Scripture. You can imagine Jesus
interrupting his teacher with ‘that’s
not what my Daddy says’.
The tiles show some of Jesus’
earliest miracles. The parents of a
dead child go to Mary and Joseph to
ask Jesus to bring their son back to
life. The only issue is that Jesus was
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the one who originally cursed the
child for ruining his work. Enforcing
discipline must have been very
difficult for Mary and Joseph.
In another, one of Jesus’ friends is
locked indoors by his father. Jesus
pulls the child through the keyhole
to escape so they can go to play
together.
The final tile is a large picture of
the wedding at Cana in Galilee. Poor
Mary and Joseph thought they had
left Jesus drinking water; apparently
he had other ideas.
Tring Mansion
The mansion has watched over
many changes in Tring.
When Charles II was reestablished as monarch in 1660, he
gave the house to his Groom of the
Bed Chamber, Sir Henry Guy, later
Secretary to the Treasury. It is widely
believed that he used this position to
subsidise the construction of his new
manor house in Tring designed by Sir
Christopher Wren. Sir Henry ended
up in the Tower of London for fraud!
The next owner of Tring Park
was Sir William Gore, Lord Mayor of
London. There were another three
generations of this family in the
house before it was sold again to Sir
William Drummond Smith, a London
banker who made extensive changes
to the house and gardens.
When Sir William Drummond
Smith died without an heir, the
estate was sold to William Kay, a
textile magnet from Manchester. It
was his brother who built the ‘Silk
Mill’ in Brook Street. At its height
it employed 600 people, many of
whom were children brought out
from the London workhouses.
When William Kay’s son inherited
the house he rented it to Baron
Lionel de Rothschild who liked it
so much that he bought it in 1872,
along with 3,643 acres – for today’s
price of £8million. He gave it to his
son Nathaniel as a belated wedding
present. The family moved to Tring
with their son Walter (then aged four)
and lived happily here. Sir Nathaniel
became the first Jewish peer raised
to the House of Lords in 1885.
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The Rothschilds made great
changes to the house: it was
completely refaced in red brick
with white ashlar dressing. The roof
was lifted and the entrance was
remodelled and moved to the north
front, to look much as it does to
this day. The Rothschilds were rich!
Imagine, for your 21st birthday, being
given a museum in which to put your
wildlife collection. Well, that’s what
happened to Walter!
The estate passed to Walter’s
nephew who gave the museum and
its contents to the British Museum.
In October 1938, the estate was split
up and sold: eleven farms, numerous
small holdings, allotments, cottages
and shops as well as a stud farm.
During World War II the house
was used by N M Rothschild &
Sons bank as a repository for the
safe keeping of documents and
valuables. Who knows what was
kept in Tring during the war! The
Home Guard also used the grounds
for training.
At last, in 1945, the mansion was
purchased by the Arts Educational
School now known as Tring Park
School for the Performing Arts,
giving Tring celebrity status and the
world many talented people: Dame
Julie Andrews, John Gilpin (founder
member of English National Ballet),
Caroline Quentin, Valerie Singleton,
Sarah Brightman, Lily James
(Downton Abbey and Cinderella
star) and Ella Henderson, finalist
in Britain’s Got Talent in 2012 and
composer and performer of ‘Ghost’ a
2014 No1 single.
Transport
A good location means good
transport which means good trade –
and for the last 5,000 years Tring has
been a good place to do business.
Tring is situated alongside the
ancient Icknield Way, at its junction
with the Roman Akeman Street.
When you stand in Tring Park today
looking over Tring, it’s not hard to
imagine ancient tribesmen trudging
along the edge of the scarp to reach
Stonehenge or Avebury; or, a little
later in time, to imagine Roman
soldiers marching past Tring on a
road from St Albans all the way to
Bath. No doubt there were salesmen
in Tring taking advantage of the
passing trade.
Jumping ahead to the late 18th
century, the new, innovative means
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of transport, the Grand Union
Canal, was built to improve the
transportation of heavy iron and
metal between the Midlands and
London. The chosen route of the
canal took sixty miles off the trip
from Birmingham to London, saving
time and therefore money. The route
past Tring was not the simplest
of tasks; it took four years of hard
labour to complete the long and
deep cutting at the Tring Summit in
1797. Additionally, the canal allowed
other industries to flourish. For
example, the Silk Mill in Brook Street
was constructed which led to Tring’s
nickname ‘Little Manchester’ in the
1850s.
Next came the railway and
in October 1837 the London &
Birmingham Railway was opened
as far as Tring. As with the canals,
Tring posed an engineering
challenge as the Tring cutting is
the deepest on the line. It was a
stupendous feat of engineering
work which took nearly three years,
around 500 men, countless picks,
shovels and wheelbarrows, and
real horsepower to complete. We
are lucky that the railway came
past Tring at all. The direct route
from Watford to Leighton Buzzard
would have missed Tring altogether,
however the powerful opposition of
some landowners meant that the
route changed to come down the
Berkhamsted Valley and so to Tring.
By the way, let’s destroy a common
myth. The remote location of Tring
Station is sometimes blamed on
Lord Rothschild who is said to have
objected to the railway passing
his mansion. Not true! In fact, Lord
Rothschild was not born until 1840,
three years after the railway had
opened.
Later, in 1973, when cars had
become an important type of
transport, Tring got a bypass! Again
Tring was in the record books as the
A41(M) as it was known, was the
shortest piece of motorway in the
country and was originally conceived
as the first stretch of a new
motorway. As we know this hasn’t
quite been finished just yet… but we
live in hope.
From the earliest times, Tring’s
location has allowed it to develop
into the thriving market town that we
know today.
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A Monologue
My diary 16 October 1837
I was so lucky today! Because my
cousin is a Director on the new
London & Birmingham railroad, I got
to ride in the first ever train that went
all the way from London to a place
called Tring in Hertfordshire. What a
funny name for a funny little town!
It was a beautiful day when
we set out from Primrose Hill and
we were in Harrow by twentyfive minutes after nine, and then
Boxmoor by nine minutes before
ten… and then we moved onto a
completely new set of rails. Scary!
After Boxmoor we went through
what seemed like a very long tunnel
– my cousin said it was 300 yards
long. Technology changes so quickly
doesn’t it? Last year, when we went
into tunnels, I remember being
plunged into the pitch dark! But
today there is a new invention: oil
lamps in every carriage! (Only in the
first class carriages, of course!)
The first class carriages were very
comfortable; we all had an individual
seat in which to recline freely in
an armchair. I understand second
class travel is more grim: the trucks
are open-sided with an overhead
covering; people often have raised
umbrellas to stop themselves getting
covered in soot. Apparently the
second class seats don’t even have
cushions!
The labourers and country folk
clustered together in many different
places to view us as we went past.
They waved and looked amazed!
Not that I think any of them will be
travelling by train. The fare from Tring
to London is 4s 6d but apparently
a farm worker only earns 10s 0d a
week. Imagine that!
And the speed was amazing.
They told us that when the railroad
is finished I shall be able to get from
London to Birmingham in eight and a
half hours. Unbelievable!
And another thing – the railroad
company is absolutely huge! There
are now EIGHT carriages that can
be brought into action if needed
although only three will be needed
on a daily basis.
And what did I think of Tring
station? Well, I was a little
disappointed by the lack of a
refreshment stall, but there were
just about enough staff: besides
the booking clerk, there was one
inspector, three policemen, four
porters, and one person to operate
the stationary engine.
And what did I think of Tring? Well
– imagine this – the station is so far
from the town we couldn’t possibly
make a trip to see the sights. So we
got back on the train and went back
to London.
Tring Market today
The granting of the Charter Market
to Tring provided a means by which
the inhabitants of the town and
surrounding villages were able to
change lifestyles which had been
endured for centuries.
An opportunity had been granted
for local folk to produce and sell
goods at a location on particular
days. It no doubt gave many a
sense of purpose and the chance to
escape from a lowly existence.
No doubt as time went on the
variety of goods available increased
from hand-woven cloth to vegetables
and grain, simple clothing, twine
and faggots, chickens and small
livestock. At first the bartering of
goods continued but soon this was
overtaken by sales and the use of
currency.
The marketing continued for
centuries with little change until
the first shops gradually appeared,
providing a growing community
with a choice, which is an important
feature of successful marketing. The
established market and fairs created
an important feature of our town,
a community, the coming together
of people and making friends,
particularly on market days.
This was probably the beginning
of Tring as we know it today. The
people began to establish status,
pulling away from the feudal systems
of earlier centuries. Tradition
remained unbroken when a further
charter in 1680 changed Market Day
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to a Friday.
Until the 18th century little
changed and then improvements
in transport and an expanding
population forced change which
sped us into the 19th century. Tring
really started to expand, with the
market and fairs continuing to be an
important feature in the lives of many.
The canal arrived, the railway
and the Rothschild family, but today,
after seven centuries, we are still
proud to call Tring a market town. In
recent centuries many families have
established businesses in Tring and
remain with us today, the Graces,
Blys, Metcalfes and others. The
farming communities in the villages
surrounding the town developed
with their stock coming to be sold
in the town, first in the High Street
and then for over a hundred years
in the Brook Street cattle market
which now operates as Tring Market
Auctions. We look forward with
Tring in Transition and Fair Trade
arrangements, we have a Tesco,
being one of the top ten stores in the
country for sales per square foot.
The weekly Friday market is now
back in the High Street, perhaps to
be followed by the Farmers’ Market
which is a great reminder of the
market as it was many centuries
ago. Charter 700 is not just about
celebrating 1315, it is celebrating
the gradual development of Tring
from little more than a small village
in 1315 to a vibrant and successful
town.
Steven Rayner
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What’s on in September
Tuesday, September 1
9.15am
Holy Communion, St P&P
9.15am
10.00am
Dacorum Food Bank, St P&P
10.00am
10:30am
Coffee morning, Wilstone Church
10:30am
Thursday, September 3
10.00am
10.00am
10.00am
10.00am
2:00pm
Mothers’ Union, St P&P
7:30pm
Young Adults Group, St P&P
7:30pm
Young Adults Group, St P&P
Friday, September 18
Friday, September 4
10.00am
Coffee Morning, St P&P
10.00am
10.00am
Fair Trade Stall, St P&P
10.00am
10.00am
10.00am
Saturday, September 19
10:00am
8:30am
CTT Prayer Breakfast, New Mill Baptist Church
Sunday, September 20
10:00am
Coffee morning, St P&P
9:00am
Breakfast, St P&P
10:00am
Craft and Lace Day, Bishop Wood School
11:30am
Mega Stick Sunday, St P&P
12:00pm
First Saturday Lunch, Tring Parish Hall
Excluding August and January
Monday, September 21
Sunday, September 6
9:00am
Breakfast, St P&P
3:30pm
Youth Café, St P&P
10.00am
9.15am
10:30am
8:00pm
PCC, Long Marston Church
10.00am
10.00am
10.00am
Historic Churches Bike Ride
10:00am
3:30pm
Youth Café, St P&P
10:30am
10.00am
10.00am
10.00am
10.00am
10.00am
9:00am
Breakfast, St P&P
6:45pm
Book Group, St P&P
10.00am
3:30pm
Youth Café, St P&P
Breakfast, St P&P
10.00am
10.00am
9:00am
10:00am
9:30am
9.15am
10.00am
Youth Café, St P&P
10.00am
3:30pm
Wednesday, September 9
10.00am
10.00am
Monday, September 7
10.00am
9.15am
10.00am
10:30am
8:00pm
DCC, Puttenham Church
Wednesday, September 30
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10.00am
7.30pm
Justice and Peace Group St P & P Church Hall
Science and faith
‘The
Explosive
Combination
of Science
and Faith’
was the title
of an open
evening
held at High Street Baptist Church
in April this year. Our speaker was
Revd Dr David Gregory, Senior
Minister of Croxley Green Baptist
Church. Known to the families there
as ‘Dr Dave’, he has a background
in Physics, Astronomy and
Meteorology and as well as being
a Baptist minister he still takes an
interest in science, its interaction
with faith and its relevance to local
church ministry and mission. He also
teaches on Science and Faith on
the Southern Counties and Central
Baptist Association ‘Footsteps’ Lay
Training programme.
The interface between science
and faith is often portrayed as
being a clash of two irreconcilable
worldviews but David clearly showed
us how science and faith have a
number of features in common.
Both rely heavily on story and on
providing a way of explaining the
world as we experience it. And,
perhaps the most surprising aspect
to many in the audience, both are
also always changing. So, in terms
of the origins of all things, we have
the parallel stories within science
and faith respectively of the Big
Bang and of Genesis 1 and 2. These
provide differing but complementary
ways of explaining: the scientific
story gives an account of the ‘how’,
insofar as science is currently able
to understand it, while the biblical
record tells a story that talks more
about ‘why’ – God values all that he
has made and he values humankind
as being made in his image. While
the explanations of science are
derived through observation and
experimentation, those that come
from faith are derived through
encounter with God – through the
Bible, through worship and in many
other ways as we follow a Christian
journey.
Dave went on to describe how,
as a teenager, he had believed
that being a scientist and being a
Christian were incompatible. This
position is epitomised by Richard
Dawkins and others of the New
Atheists, but is often based on a
false contrast between a scientific
view and a literalist or creationist
(and therefore minority) faith view.
This polarised position can lead
to a loss of faith among young
people brought up in the church
once they become engaged with
science, or to a lack of engagement
with scientific thinking. However,
from his early twenties Dave came
to see that there can indeed be
dialogue between science and
faith and this is echoed by many in
Christian ministry, 86% of whom, in
a recent survey, categorised the two
as ‘complementary and enhancing’.
Alister McGrath, who himself had
a loss of faith when he ‘discovered’
science but then came to fully
embrace this same position, has
responded to Dawkins’ ‘The God
Delusion’ in a book entitled ‘The
Dawkins Delusion?’; he has also
written on ‘science, faith and how we
make sense of things’ in ‘Surprised
by Meaning’ and on engaging with
the New Atheism in ‘Why God Won’t
Go Away’.
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As Christians we do not always
recognise that, while God remains
the same ‘yesterday, today and
forever’, faith is nevertheless always
changing. A brief survey of the
history of Christianity in the UK
very quickly makes it clear that
this is the case and we should not
be apprehensive about it. Science
is always changing: as progress
is made in new technologies and
researchers make discoveries that
add to the sum of knowledge in a
particular field
there will be
new theories
to explain
what we
observe and
experience.
In the same
way, our faith will not be the same
as the faith of our ancestors: we will
worship in new ways, our models
of church will be different and we
will work at mission and ministry in
very different ways. These things
should excite and enliven us rather
than cause us to be fearful – in the
changing worlds of both science
and faith we can learn more about
our Creator God and his marvellous
works.
We look forward to welcoming
Revd David Gregory back to Tring
in the future to share more with us
about the ‘enhancing’ combination
of science and faith, and if you have
particular questions that you would
like to have discussed, then please
do get in touch.
Nicky Bull
The Deanery lecture
Not to be
outdone by
our friends at
High Street
Baptist
Church, the
Deanery
lecture this
year was given by Mike Parsons
of the Ian Ramsay Centre at the
University of Oxford. He retired in
August as a vicar in the diocese
of Gloucestershire. We met at
a Science and Religion Forum
conference and became friends
because of our shared interest in
science, religion, cricket, rugby and
real ale! Mike took his first degree
and PhD in Physics at Oxford.
He was a researcher in Physics
at Oxford and Nottingham before
studying theology at Cambridge.
More than sixty people attended
St Mary’s Church in Northchurch for
the event, ‘Why is there something
rather than nothing?’, more than a
quarter of whom came from St Peter
& St Paul’s. The average age was
probably sixty, lowered by a small
contingent of students from Ashlyns
School.
The thrust of the argument
delivered was that atheists and
scientists generally are confident in
speaking with authority on matters
of faith; it is time that people of faith
spoke out equally confidently about
science. Mike Parsons took apart the
statement: ‘The good thing about
science is that it’s true whether or
not you believe it’ which you can
purchase on a tee shirt from the
Guardian or the Observer. Mike then
took us on a tour of modern science
including the first three minutes of
life on earth, cosmic history and the
Goldilocks Principle which brought
us to Paul’s letter to the Romans,
1:20, ‘Since the creation of the world
God’s invisible qualities – his eternal
power and divine nature – have been
clearly seen, being understood from
what has been made.’
Mike explained that the Christian
view of a creator God, while not
proved by modern science, fits
well with the other two theories
which explain the universe and its
existence, namely that the universe
existed for ever or that it arose
spontaneously uncaused, from
nothing.
The Creator God has revealed
himself through creation, order,
beauty and rationality. We cannot
prove this but it is a credible
explanation and religious experience
supports such a view.
Everyone believes in something;
we all have a world view. There are
good and credible reasons for the
Christian faith. But neither science
nor faith can answer questions such
as ‘Why did I fall in love?’ and ‘Why
didn’t it work?’ There is much that
cannot be explained by faith or
science, many things that cannot be
proved. Life is always lived by faith
whether in a loving creator God or
the unproved assumption that the
Big Bang just happened with no
cause. There is a human need both
to believe in something but also
to explain things. You cannot have
faith without doubt. The Christian
faith is neither contradicted nor
proved by modern science. It is quite
possible to be a person of faith and a
scientist.
Mike then took questions which
ranged from ‘Who is God? and
where does he live?’ (not asked
by a young student but an older
member of the gathering) to ‘What
do you think of Richard Dawkins?’
He recommended for further reading
Polkinghorne’s ‘The Way the World
Is’ which is very accessible for the
non-scientist. He also offered his
own equation for the mathematicians
present: ‘Infinite care plus ultimate
sacrifice equals a loving God.’
Jon Reynolds
Yarn Bomb Tring!
Celebrating Charter 700
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project created by members of the
community. The project was led by
Sally Spriggs and Hilary Gatehouse
of Hessian & Indigo, and coordinated using social media. Over
100 women, children and one or two
men, worked together to produce
woolly wonders designed to brighten
up Tring!
All Stitched Up! – St Bartholomew’s
School, Wigginton
Bishop Wood School
Crafty & Wine!
Daisyknots
Hessian & Indigo at The Lady Shed
High St Baptist Church
Home Start
New Mill Baptist Church
St Joseph’s Care Home
St Peter & St Paul’s Tring Team
Parish
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Tring School
Tring Together
The Women’s Institute
Yarn Bomb Tring Facebook Group
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The Mothers’ Union garden party
The summer solstice has passed
and we are now in the second part of
the year. Where does time go? Just
recently we had an extra second,
an adjustment that needs to be
made every so many years because
the earth’s movement through the
heavens doesn’t fit exactly the way
we measure our time. I rather like
that idea, a correction imposed by
something beyond our control.
There are many things beyond
our control, not least the weather,
and so arranging to have a Garden
Party on the first Thursday in July
when we are fixing our programme
for the year in the previous
September is always an act of hope.
This year it fell on the day after a real
scorcher, the hottest day on record,
but rain was forecast during the day
and thunder storms were pending.
The Garden Party was at our house
this year and I really didn’t want
to resort to having it in the Church
Hall, so hope had to prevail! It all
amounted to a few drops of rain in
the morning and some heavy clouds
after most folk had gone home.
The morning was spent tidying
clutter into a ‘glory hole’, as my
mother would say. Does everyone
have a ‘glory hole’, a dumping
ground for clutter at times it is not
needed around? It was worth it
because once that was out of the
way things ran smoothly.
Sometimes I think my life needs
a ‘glory hole’: maybe it would run
more smoothly! The few chairs we
have were brought out of the summer
house; that was a trip down memory
lane because many of them belonged
to our parents or had appeared
when we moved house. We don’t do
parasols and posh garden furniture,
being the type of folk who have
camped and are more likely to picnic
than sit at tables. Anyway, that was
OK, too, because the good Lord
has provided plenty of shade in the
garden and people came along with
more chairs and tables to use.
We had a lovely afternoon. Food
preparation had been shared out
amongst the committee members
and many kind friends helped
serving, washing up, etc. so that
everyone was able to sit down to
enjoy themselves. Thank you to
all the helpers! Perhaps that is the
image many people have of the
Mothers’ Union: tea and chatter. Look
further and you will see more than a
fellowship that supports each other.
If you had been with us two
weeks previously, you would have
taken part in our Wave of Prayer
where we ask God for his care in the
diocese to which St Albans is linked
– in Nigeria, Tanzania, India and
Burundi. I hope you read about these
in a previous edition of Comment.
Under the apple tree at the garden
party was a Bring and Buy stall to
raise money for the Overseas Fund.
This money will go to support the
work of Community Development
Coordinators in many countries.
They work with families establishing
grassroots projects which will help in
all kinds of situations such as those
brought about by famine, AIDS and
natural disasters. They help people
to read, learn skills and to improve
family health. Always working to
provide Christian care for families,
they meet situations that may seem
out of control for those living in
them but they bring an element of
readjustment where it is needed.
All of our meetings have some
element of ‘Christian care for
families’. We enjoyed a cup of tea
at College Lake and we helped with
the Worship for All Service in August.
Looking forward to the second half
of this year, in September we have
a Craft afternoon; then in October
there is the Deanery Autumn
Worship. The full programme is
on our noticeboard near to the
children’s corner in St Peter and St
Paul’s Church.
Jill Smith
Rhapsodies, fantasies and more
Join us in St Peter and St Paul’s
Church on Sunday 13 September
at 3.00pm for an hour of beautiful
music from Bach to Tchaikovsky and
beyond, followed by tea and cake.
Admission is free but there will be a
retiring collection for church music.
Anna Le Hair is a professional
pianist and piano teacher based
in Tring; she studied at Edinburgh
University and the Royal College
of Music. Anna gives regular
performances both as a soloist
and with partners, playing in many
venues in Britain and abroad.
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Rebecca Whiteman has just
graduated from Cambridge, gaining
a First with distinction in Music, and
is planning to take a Master’s course
in Psychology this autumn. She
has played the cello and flute in a
variety of ensembles in Cambridge,
and previously in the National Youth
Orchestra.
Contact Anna Le Hair on 01442
381238 or John Whiteman on 01442
826314 for more details.
The new parish website
By the time,
you are
reading this,
the new
website for
St Peter and
St Paul’s
should be
up and running. Why do we need
a new website? (If you are not into
computers and feel left out, please
talk to a member of the ministry
team, a churchwarden or even me.
We want to help you benefit from the
modern technology).
Let’s go back a bit. During the
early part of this century, Mike
Watkin and Roy Hargreaves started
looking at producing a website using
web space that came with their email
addresses. Due to the pressure of
doing other things, they never really
got started.
Around 2005, I started looking
at creating a parish website and the
parish purchased web space from a
company called Streamline.net. I had
no experience of web design and so,
armed with a copy of a development
tool, called Dreamweaver, I began
to create a website. The aim of the
site was to provide information for
people wanting to find out about
life in the parish and to enable our
own folk to know what was going
on. The site was relatively simple by
modern standards; I felt that it was
more important to have up-to-date
information rather than worrying
about it being ‘snazzy’. I kept on
adding pages on an ad-hoc basis as
people requested more information.
There were parish pages and district
pages.
The elevation of Huw Bellis to
the position of Team Rector in 2008
was a significant milestone as he is
a techno enthusiast. We introduced
a more structured format with pages
covering all the parish activities from
Mothers’ Union to Book Group,
Sunday Clubs to Coffee Mornings.
Calendars were set up showing
schedules of services, what’s on in
each of the churches and across the
parish. This enabled anybody to see
what was happening to ensure no
unnecessary conflict of events. We
also added links to our Facebook
page, our giving site and various
other interesting organisations such
as the Bell Ringers and the Friends
of Tring Church Heritage. Recordings
of lectures and special services were
also incorporated. However the
basic layout stayed the same and
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is, by modern standards, dated. My
development tool was also getting a
bit long in the tooth when being used
with the latest operating system.
A few months ago, Ian Matthews,
one of Tring’s churchwardens,
offered to have his web designer,
Kevin Holt, develop a new site
using a modern day development
system called Moonfruit. This has
the advantage that you can easily
produce new web pages once you
have developed the initial site, which
Kevin is currently completing. It will,
for example, allow members of the
ministry team to produce web pages
for different areas of church life
rather than everything having to be
routed through me. It will allow us to
expand the website to cover other
relative subjects. We are planning to
have a church blog.
When you have looked at the
website, we would like to hear your
comments on how useful you find
the website and what other pages
should be included. Encourage your
friends to look at the site and tell you
what they think. We try to keep the
site up to date so keep looking to
see what is happening in the Tring
Team Parish.
Ted Oram
Churches together in tents
There is a poem by Seumas
O’Sulivan about a piper who strikes
up a tune and folk come from their
houses, leave their troubles behind
and dance in the street. It is full
of joy. This report is being written
towards the end of a very busy
fortnight for Tring. At the end of June
Tring had the Carnival followed by
all the Charter 700 celebrations.
It wasn’t a piper but the knitters
of Tring who set to and decorated
Zebra Square in wonderful colours.
The joy of it all brought the people
out with cameras and smiles.
Hopefully it has strengthened our
community, but what an act of faith
it must have been for all those who
organised it all. Many thanks to all of
them!
It was an act of faith when
Churches Together in Tring put up
their ‘Family Chill-out’ tent last year
at the Carnival and it was decided
to repeat it this year. It is an act of
faith finding helpers for the day and
hoping the right kind of atmosphere
will prevail, but the recipe seems to
work! Ingredients – one marquee,
two tables, chairs, crayons, pictures
to colour, wool to make pom-poms,
plates to spin, a few diablos, hula
hoops and some soft balls, and
lots of helpful people. Mix them
altogether and see what happens!
First came some team work –
putting up the marquee and setting
out the activities: then the fun began!
One of our earlier visitors was
elderly and had worked on the roof
of St Peter and St Paul’s in Roland
Tapping’s time! He was followed
soon by an eleven-day-old baby who
was hungry. During the day a whole
spectrum of people visited and sat
and talked or tried the activities.
Later on Vicky did some balloon
modelling. Dave, the youth worker
from High Street Baptist Church and
Will, whom he brought along, got
youngsters (of all ages!) spinning
plates and trying the diablos. We
were all astounded at the skills of
one young visitor who was so good
at diablo that he seemed to be doing
cat’s cradle and tossing the spinning
cones in the air – wow! Some folk
kept returning and got better each
time at spinning the plates; in
particular we saw a lot of dragons
and a knight who really enjoyed it all.
All who came along seemed to have
a good time.
Towards the end of the afternoon
I looked around. The chairs were full
of folk resting and talking, parents
were relaxing on the picnic rug with
their children, pictures and pom-
poms littered the table and a general
ambience of contentment filled the
tent. Those of us who had been there
all day were shattered, but happy:
a community of people at ease with
each other. What a wonderful thing
to achieve through an act of faith!
Many, many thanks are due to all
those who helped from the different
churches in Tring, and thanks,
too, to the family of Henry Nash
whose legacy covered expenses.
Jesus said, ‘Where two or three
are gathered together, I am in their
midst’. I like to think that he was in
the midst of those in our marquee,
relaxing with us in the joy of the
shared community.
Jill Smith
Bishop Wood School Lace and Craft Day
with Tring Team Parish on Saturday 5th September 2015 10.00am to 4.00pm
At Bishop Wood Church of England Junior School,
Frogmore Street, Tring Hertfordshire HP23 5AU
Tickets
£4.50
Fairtrade Tea and Coffee available all day
Please bring your lunch, local cafes and M&S nearby
Limited parking in school grounds and ample parking adjacent to school (charges apply)
For tickets by post:
Send stamped addressed envelope with cheque made payable to Mrs Moira Hargreaves,
30 Highfield Road, Tring, Herts HP23 4DX
Telephone 01442 823624 or e-mail [email protected]
Proceeds to Bishop Wood School Funds and Team Parish Mission
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Tweet of the month
Anyone who knows me will probably
realise that this is not going to
be about something profound
expressed in 140 characters on a
so-called social networking service.
For those that don’t know me I am
a fairly keen birdwatcher. While I do
travel all over Britain and beyond,
90% of my birdwatching is done at
Tring Reservoirs. I am also interested
in mammals, reptiles, dragonflies,
butterflies and moths to varying
degrees.
Walking round the reservoirs I find
it easy to appreciate God’s creation
and how marvellous it is, particularly
in the summer when birds that have
spent the winter from as far away as
South Africa or even the Southern
Oceans come and breed in Britain.
Most species now have youngsters
to feed and so there is a lot of
noisy activity as I walk round with
youngsters trying to compete for
food or just trying to learn the noises
that they will need to make as adults. Anyway, the bird I would like to focus
on is Little Egret, an attractive pure
white heron about half the size of
the Grey Heron (aka Heron to most
people). I first saw Little Egret in
Britain in 1981 when I was still a
teenager and it was a rarity. By 1990
it was turning up too frequently to be
considered a national rarity and bred
for the first time in Britain in 1996.
I saw my first at Tring Reservoirs in
1989 and this was the first ever to be
seen at the reservoirs. Subsequent
to this they have continued to
increase in numbers at the reservoirs
and first bred successfully at
Wilstone Reservoir in 2011. After a
couple of false alarms this year four
pairs have successfully raised twelve
young so the future currently looks
bright for this beautiful bird.
To be successful Little Egrets
have had to be adaptable and take
advantage of opportunities. Maybe
we can learn something from them.
Maybe Christian people have to do
the same to be successful in sharing
with others what we know about
God’s love.
Roy Hargreaves
Justice, peace and puddings
The Pudding Quiz featured on our
agendas for a while before the event
took place in mid-June. Thanks to
Margaret Donnelly, we had all bases
covered, especially the provision of
delicious puddings for consumption
at half time.
But our prediction of numbers of
people coming proved less accurate,
when happily, more people turned up
than we had sold tickets to, so the
teams suddenly became larger and
quite chummy around the tables in
the Corpus Christi Church Hall! It all
made for a good atmosphere and the
Question Master had a good clear
voice so there was no mistaking
what he was asking, even if at one
point there was a loud groan from a
young man who knew the answer to
some celebrity question, but couldn’t
actually summon up the name just at
that moment.
Also not predicted was a
tied result, firstly between three
teams, then whittled down to two
teams who tied again in a further
play-off question, so the prize
of chocolate bars was shared
between the final winning teams.
Note to the committee: ‘provide
more prizes next time’! You can
see more pictures taken at the
Pudding Quiz on our website: www.
justiceandpeacegrouptring.
There was a good mix of old
and young and in-between, ideal
for a community event. Michael
Demidecki was able to talk about
the aims of the Justice and Peace
Group in the interval and the work
it seeks to do, partly by raising
money annually, alternately to help
a local voluntary group or one in a
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developing country. The Christmas
Community Concert last December,
for example, raised money to assist
the running of the DENS Foodbank.
£280 was raised for the work of the
Justice and Peace Group, so thanks
to all who came and supported the
event.
Our next fundraising event will
be on Saturday 5 December in
the Victoria Hall (already booked!)
when local children and others
will be singing and playing to raise
money for a school in Kenya. Do
come along and support it. In the
meantime, if you would be interested
in joining the Justice and Peace
Group, the meetings are held on
the last Wednesday of the month,
the next one being 30 September
at St Peter and St Paul’s Church
Hall at 7.30pm. You would be
very welcome. Contact Michael
Demidecki for further information
[email protected].
Margaret Whiting
In memory of Donald Cartwright
Don Cartwright was born in Tring on
13 February 1928. He had a younger
brother called Alec. He had a long
association with Tring Parish Church
and was a member of the choir as
a boy. Don met his wife, Patience,
through bell ringing and rang bells
all over the country, riding there on
their push bikes, including cycling
to Winchester to ring the bells there.
Don rang a number of peals and his
name is on the peal boards in the
ringing chamber. Many times he told
the story of how he had to rescue
a young Sheila Green who had got
caught up in the ropes by her waist.
Vanda Badrick, who was a similar
age to Sheila, remembers vividly Don
carrying her down. Don also did a lot
of work on the fabric of the church,
especially the electrics.
When he left school Don went to
work in the bakery as a pastry chef.
This being a reservist occupation,
to do his bit he joined Tring Air Raid
Precautions Rescue Section. After
the war he retrained to become an
electrician and the whole family were
involved in wiring all the houses in
Sutton Close. His electrical skills
saw him help out at many shows and
performances across Tring.
On 13 September 1952 Don
married Patience. In 1956 they
moved to 1 Christchurch Road and
Gowers of Tring moved them from
Miswell Lane at a cost of £7 10s 3d.
They had four children: Richard
was born on 24 June 1953, Robin
on 19 May 1955, Ben (Anthony)
was born on 23 August 1956 and
Susan was born 26 July 1959. They
also had eight grandchildren and
four great grandchildren. There was
nothing Don liked more than being
surrounded by his family. When the
boys were young he used to help
with the cooking at Scouts in places
such as Bangor and Lochearnhead.
Don was a keen folk dancer
and danced with the Kingpins
from Aylesbury. He danced all
over the country until the early
1970s, including at the international
Eisteddfod in Llangollen. During this
time he also did the horticultural
show, steam festivals and other
events in Tring High Street which still
carry on to this day.
In 1978 the Tring Save the
Children shop that Don and Patience
were involved with was opened by
Princess Anne, something for which
they were rightly very proud.
In recent years Don’s mobility was
seriously limited by his ulcers, but
he would still be out on his mobility
scooter to the church on Thursday
mornings for Holy Communion and
on Fridays for coffee; and of course
to the Conservative Club and the
Kings Arms for real ale. He would
be driven over to the practice nights
for the Whitchurch Morris Men: they
played Don out of church on his
funeral held at 12.30 on 3 July 2015.
The Cartwright Family want to
thank everybody who has offered
prayers and support, sent cards and
given Don such a good send off.
On a personal note and on behalf
of the community of Aldbury, I would
like to express our gratitude to Don
and Patience. Having attended one
of the first Christingle services in St
Albans Cathedral back in the late
1970s, we decided to set up our own
annual Christingle service in Aldbury
church in 1979, which would involve
the whole community of Aldbury and
Tring Station. At the time we chose
to support Save the Children. Don
and Patience were thrilled and we
too were thrilled to support the shop
to which they gave so much energy,
joy and time. Every organisation and
group in Aldbury and Tring Station
was invited to be represented at
the service as well as a personal
invitation to every household in the
village and parish. Everyone gave
generously. They were great years
for us all. Don and Patience played a
special part in our annual Christingle
service for twenty years or more; it
was always a joy to have them with
us.
Thank you, Don and Patience, for
your long and faithful friendship to so
many people. God bless you both.
Janet Ridgway
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Useful Contacts
Tring TEAM PARISH
Tring Team Parish Clergy
Team Rector
(Tring, Puttenham & Aldbury)
Rev Huw Bellis 2 The Limes, Station Road
01442 822170
07411 483229
[email protected]
(Day off Thursday)
Team Vicar
Vacancy
School Chaplaincy and
Associate Priest
(Long Marston & Tring School)
Rev Jane Banister
01442 822170
[email protected]
Associate Priest (Wilstone)
Rev Didier Jaquet
01296 660961
[email protected]
(Day off Saturday)
Curate in Training and
School Chaplaincy
Graham White
St George’s House
3 New Mill Place
Tringford Road
01442 828344
[email protected]
Tring Team
Parish Co-ordinators
Roy Hargreaves
30 Highfield Road
01442 823624
[email protected]
Ted Oram
31 Nathaniel Walk
01442 824575
[email protected]
Tring Team
Church Wardens
Chris Hoare (Tring)
01442 822915
Ian Matthews (Tring)
01442 823327
Andy Stephenson (Aldbury)
07548 696964
Annie Eggar (Aldbury)
01442 851854
John Barron (Puttenham)
01296 631351
Christine Rutter (Puttenham)
01296 668337
Ken Martin (Wilstone)
01442 822494
Rev Jane Banister (Long Marston)
01442 822170
Tring Team Administration
Administrator
Liz Terrett
01442 891700
[email protected]
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Janet Goodyer
01442 824929
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Barbara Anscombe
01442 828325
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Jenny Scholes
01442 825276
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METHODIST CHURCH
Minister
Rev Rachael Hawkins
01442 866324
[email protected]
Senior Steward
Rosemary Berdinner
01442 822305
AKEMAN STREET
BAPTIST CHURCH
Minister
Rev David Williams
01442 827881
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Administrator
Emma Nash
01442 827881
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BAPTIST CHURCH
Minister
Rev Andrew Cowley
89 High Street
07920 430739
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01442 824054
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BAPTIST CHURCH
Minister
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The Manse, Grove Road
01442 825157
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51 Langdon Street
01442 823161
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accompanied by word searches, puzzles, and
other activities. These teach, entertain and
reinforce what children learn from the Bible stories.
One is designed for younger children, the second
is designed for children aged over 7.
www.cwr.org.uk
SOLD AROUND THE WORLD
Every child is an individual
If your child has Speech and Language difficulties,
Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, or has an Autistic Spectrum
Condition, we might be the school to help them.
ERS works on the basis that every child is an
individual and our emphasis is on supporting
children with additional, individual needs. To do this
we have specialist trained teachers,
in-house therapists and an integrated mainstream
curriculum. We were highly rated at our last
Inspection and our parents tell us that ERS makes a
real difference.
If ERS sounds right for you, please visit our
website, make an appointment to see the school in
Berkhamsted or book for one of our Open Days.
8th OCTOBER
19th NOVEMBER
Contact our Registrar Liz Martin
01442 877060 : [email protected]
www.eger-roth.co.uk
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A tradition of dignity, respect & choice
A tradition of dignity, respect & choice

The magazine of The ChurChes in Tring

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