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Summary for SE England: Storm Darragh arriving overnight.
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Come and shake your booty in the dark to some fab dance tunes. Bring £1, some water and your best moves…. Dance like no-one is watching and feel amazing afterwards!
Trees will be displayed in church from Saturday 7th December to Monday 6th January for all to enjoy during the Festive season.
The theme is a Christmas Wonderland
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We're just these guys, you know? Having a late breakfast.
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Collection to the Children’s Society
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The minutes of the November meeting of Sibford Ferris Parish Council can be found below.
Following the visit of the Tashi Lhunpo monks in October, many people asked if there was a possibility of showing the entire documentary film Escape from Tibet that the director …read more
Beverley Lewis writes: I'm organising a Jumble Sale on Saturday 25th January in Sibford Village Hall, 1 - 3pm, in aid of the Churchill Cancer Hospital.
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Churchwarden Barbara Foster writes: Following the popular Christmas Tree Festival for past three years which brought together village organisations, we invite your group to help villagers celebrate Christmas by …read more
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The Town Estate Charity Sibford Gower and Burdrop (Registered Charity No 253440) has a remit to use surplus funds for three purposes:
We are blessed with great walking country around the Sibfords. Visit the Sibford Walkers webpage for maps of over 50 circular walks. Each map page includes a link to download …read more
Sibford 1939 – the war years
Some more memories from Terry Cemm.
The Ferris had a post office which sold stationery, sweets, etc. and there was another farmhouse kitchen where you could buy sweets and chocolates. The Gower had a co-op shop near the school and another little shop down by the pond. Most people grew their own fruit and vegetables, kept chickens and bartered various items.
There were occasional visits from an old van which was festooned with hardware items – this was a form of mobile shop. Other shopping was done in Banbury. There was a Midland Red bus which could be caught at the Elm.
The best transport was Tanner’s bus, a 1930’s coach which called at the Ferris and returned with its large roof rack loaded with crates of chickens, rolls of lino, wire netting, large tin baths, etc. I enjoyed watching Jess driving. When he let go of the steering wheel to light his cigarette, the wheel jumped around. Then you could watch his hand groping back behind him for the gear stick which jiggled and jumped around in an alarming fashion. When he stopped, he reached over to give a tug on a handle which opened a folding door.
One of my favourite jobs was taking shoes or boots to the cobbler at Burdrop. He was always happy to chat and I remember you stepped down into a small front room workshop where he sat in the middle surrounded by tools, bags of nails, hundreds of off-cuts of leather and racks of shoes.
A little way along the road was the doctor’s house from which he also dispensed your medicines. The main children’s complaints were nits, chaps, chilblains and a nasty skin complaint called impetigo.
There were many characters living in the village. Out on the Shipston road in some ramshackle old wooden huts surrounded by iron bedsteads, etc. lived Theodore Lamb, a recluse who dressed in old sacks and who pushed either a pram or an old bicycle around the villages. It was said that he was thwarted in love which caused him to adopt his way of life.
Received notice from G Selwyn Edwards Esq, Kingsdown, Newbury, the local Inspector, that the examination of school children in drawing will take place on Friday, December 21 at 11 am. I walked to Sibford Ferris this evening and called on Mr and Mrs Woolgrove. He told me that it had been agreed that the labourers should have a field of Richard H Lamb’s for allotments at about £2 an acre, including Rates, taxes, etc. Mr W added that Mr R had said that if any men failed to pay the rent when due, the other tenants would have to make it up. Mr Joshua Lamb, his eldest son, Chairman of the Allotment Committee is to have the management of these allotments. But that the tenants will not be able to take possession till Michaelmas 1896.