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Saturday 30 September 2023Summary for SE England: Mild overnight. Dry, bright and warm on Sunday.
Village Hall event
Set up for Applefest
Scarecrow judging TODAY
The Applefest judges will be out and about today assessing the scarecrows that have popped …
The Applefest judges will be out and about today assessing the scarecrows that have popped up around the Sibfords.
You're invited to bring your scarecrow along to Applefest itself on Sunday, for display outside the Village Hall - any time after 10 am.
…and tomorrow
Quaker Meeting
Please visit http://banburyeveshamquakers.org.uk/sibford for meeting and contact details.
Please visit http://banburyeveshamquakers.org.uk/sibford for meeting and contact details.
Quaker Week
Quaker Week runs from September 24th - October 1st. There are two …
Quaker Week runs from September 24th - October 1st. There are two events in Sibford at the Meeting House. Join Sibford School's Evening of Reflection on Thursday September 28th. You are also invited to come and find out more about Quaker worship by joining us for Meeting for Worship at 10.30 am on World Quaker Day, Sunday October 1st.
World Quaker Day celebrates the diversity of Quakerism around the world, with the aim to build connections to make our community stronger.
Quaker Week runs every year to help Quaker Meetings attract new people and share their faith. The theme this year is Simple, Radical Spiritual. Everyone is welcome.
For more information , visit www.banburyeveshamquakers.org.uk or email sibford
Sibford Applefest
A celebration of everything apple Fun Fun Fun! Bouncy Castle, Jam and Pickle Stall, Ice …
A celebration of everything apple
Fun Fun Fun!
Bouncy Castle, Jam and Pickle Stall, Ice Cream Van, Children's games, Licensed bar
Get Baking!
Apple pie and apple cake for the big apple competition. Separate categories for junior and adult. Drop off entries on Sunday 1 October between 9 and 11 am, clearly labelled.
Get Celebrating!
Live entertainment including Morris Dancers and local talent: Belle Collective, R&G, Dave Singers
Get Donating!
Please donate raffle prizes to Isabel George 07989 968 736
Get Making!
Create a scarecrow outside your home from 17 September. Impress the judges! Theme: Movie Mania. Register for the competition with Juliette at juliette53
Get Picking!
Collect your apples and bottles to bring to the festival for apple pressing on site.
Get Scoffing!
Apple soup with sourdough; pulled pork baps with apple sauce; BBQ sausages
… and after that
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Scarecrow judging TODAY
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Quaker Week
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Sibford Applefest
Sibford Walkers
We leave the Village Hall car park on foot or by car at 10 am …read more
Ladies Coffee Club
Ladies!! Come for coffee and a chat at the pub.
Men’s Brunch
The Sibford Men's Breakfast Club has returned ... as the Sibford Men's BRUNCH Club with …read more
Pond end of Gower Main Street closed
Oxfordshire CC has given notice that the section of Main Street in Sibford Gower below …read more
Pond end of Gower Main Street closed
Pond end of Gower Main Street closed
Pond end of Gower Main Street closed
…more events
News & Notices
Brown Envelope Appeal
Tony Skowronski writes: Printing costs for the Sibford Scene magazine are £2500 per year and advertising receipts are approximately £800 so donations are very important. We haven't made an appeal …read more
The Elm – accident blackspot?
Earlier this week emergency services were called again to The Elm crossroads, near the bottlebank, to attend a vehicle collision. Several people have reported near misses at the same location. …read more
Sibford Gower Parish Council Minutes
The minutes of the September meeting of Sibford Gower Parish Council can be found below:
Applefest Bakeoff
Cherwell Local Plan Review 2040
*Information below is copied from Cherwell District Council's website
Consultation now open
Pond end of Gower Main Street closed
Oxfordshire CC has given notice that the section of Main Street in Sibford Gower below the pond will be closed to most traffic for two weeks from Monday 9th October …read more
…and the winners are…
Results of the September draw:
Tempted? Read more about the Village Hall Lottery
The Sibfords Newsletters
Our daily newsletters provide the local weather forecast and list upcoming village events, new planning applications, etc. Subscribe here!
The Town Estate Charity
The Town Estate Charity Sibford Gower and Burdrop (Registered Charity No 253440) has a remit to use surplus funds for three purposes:
- the general benefit of the parish,…read more
Walks near Sibford
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
…earlier news
Voices from the past
44 years ago
the Sibford Scene in March 1979
Friendship Club: Mrs Flinn writes: For us, like everybody else, January and February have been one cancellation after another! We have had …
Friendship Club
Mrs Flinn writes:
For us, like everybody else, January and February have been one cancellation after another! We have had only one Club meeting during these months. Once again we have been out delivering Welfare Food round both villages. Our thanks are due again to David Dyer and Norman Coxon for the help they have given our usual rota of Meals-on-Wheels ladies during this difficult weather.
Our Jumble Sale had to he cancelled at the last minute, but we have so much warm clothing we feel we must try again on Saturday afternoon, March 10th in the Village Hall.
137 years ago today
Reverend Stevens's diary for Thursday 30 September 1886
Charles Lines's wife called and paid her husband's rent for triangular field. Cutting from Banbury Advertiser of 30 September …
Charles Lines’s wife called and paid her husband’s rent for triangular field.
Cutting from Banbury Advertiser of 30 September 1886
SIBFORD GOWER.
HARVEST THANKSGIVING SERVICES were held in the church here on Sunday last, commencing with a celebration of the Holy Communion at eight a.m., and followed by the usual morning service at 10.30, and a second celebration of the Holy Communion at noon. The afternoon service was held at three o’clock. Appropriate sermons were preached to large and attentive congregations by the vicar, the Rev. Edward T. Stevens. There was also a special evening service at seven o’clock when an excellent and practical sermon on “The Earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof” was preached to crowded congregation by the Rev. C. E. Graham-Jones, vicar of South Banbury. The church had been exceedingly well decorated by several ladies of the congregation with corn, flowers, and fruit, supplied by the inhabitants of Sibford Gower and Sibford Ferris, who seemed to vie with each other who should send the best, and a handsome “big loaf” was added by a local baker. The illumination of the church at night with Silber lamps and a multitude of candles was very effective, and gave great pleasure to the villagers, many of whom stayed long after the service was over to admire the beauty of the floral designs and other decorations, which showed well under the blaze of light. The collections amounted to £6 9s. 6d., and will be divided as usual between the Horton Infirmary at Banbury and the Radcliffe at Oxford, to both which excellent institutions the parish owes a great debt of gratitude, though it has not had occasion during the year to send patients to either.
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