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Curate’s Christmas Letter
All I want for Christmas is… What is Christmas all about for you? The family gathering? The presents? The turkey? A walk on Christmas day when you feel like you can’t move, after eating so much? For me, family and … Continue reading
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Almshouse Vacancies
Sir John Offley’s Almshouses, Madeley We will have vacancies in the New Year for two one bedroom units at our Station Road site. The residency charge is expected to be £73 per week. Residents pay their own utility bills. Applications … Continue reading
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Rev Alan Bailey’s Letter November 2020
Dear friends, We have turned the clocks back and entered the season of ‘dark nights’! November is the month when we remember the sacrifice made by many thousands in the First World War and other conflicts since, and that sacrifice … Continue reading
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New Vicar appointed
The Parish Church Council is delighted to say that the Wardens of the two parishes have been authorised to announce that: Subject to the required safeguarding checks, the Bishop of Lichfield has appointed the Revd. Tim Watson, currently Leesland Pioneer … Continue reading
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Church Letter October 2020
Welcome to our Parish Magazine, it’s so good to be back in print. Who would have believed at the start of the year how things were going to be. It was a great sadness to have to close the Church … Continue reading
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Curate’s Letter September 2020
Honolulu – It’s got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife’s mother. Ken Dodd, comedian Firstly, I love my mother in law – unlike, obviously, Ken Dodd. But secondly, I wonder if you have … Continue reading
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Vicar’s Letter & Church Magazine, July & August 2020
This is the last letter I will write as Vicar of All Saints’ and St Margaret’s. After nearly 7 years, Helen and I are up sticking and moving to Nottinghamshire to be nearer to our grown-up children. It is with … Continue reading
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Vicar’s Letter June 2020 & Church Magazine for June
Vicar Letter – June 2020 Joy in the morning! You have probably heard by now that Helen and I are on the move. After nearly 7 years as Vicar of All Saints’ and St Margaret’s we have made the difficult … Continue reading
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50 Years Ago – Hollywood
On May 23rd/24th 1970, the “Hollywood Music Festival” took place at Finney Green, near Madeley. Were you there? Do you have any memories or pictures you can share? Please get in touch and I’ll collate everything into this page! – … Continue reading
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Vicar’s Letter & Church Magazine for May 2020
What can we learn so far from the Lock down? What surreal (and for some tragic and anxious) times we are living through. Mercifully, in Madeley and Betley we have been spared some of the worst aspects of the virus … Continue reading
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