News & Events

Diary Dates


Saturday 10 October, Autumn Fair: Please put this date in your diaries. We will need people to man stalls. We also need donations for stalls from this week on. We would like donations of cash towards items for hampers (for a raffle) also chocolate/sweets for the chocolate tombola. Please give these and any other donations to Ruth or Pam. Let’s make this event a success.

Sunday 1 November All Saints Day, 10.00 am: Followed by lunch.


Drama Club


The new Drama club for Primary aged children is running on Tuesday 4pm-5pm until 20th October. in term time. It is £3 per session which Includes a snack and drink. All abilities welcome.  Please contact Reverend Annette Rose. Phone: 020 8850 0374 – Email: revannette.rose@btinternet.com


Open Church


On Friday’s between 3.00 pm and 6.pm the Church will be open for people to come for a chat, a coffee or tea, a ponder and a pray.

Prayer Are Asked For


The sick and frail, including: Trevor, Paul, Sonia, Annie, Barbara, Lisa, Izzy, Mark, John, Angela, Canute, Nicci, Janet, Pat, Pam, Sharan, Jean, Grant and Marie-Jo.


Those who have died; Alex Crosland, Ray Waterman and Andrew.


Years Mind; Ada Holland, Henry Flaherty, Raymond Smith, Thomas Blake, Margaret Allen, Leonard Hardy, Florence Currall, Cecil Turner, Henry Fletcher and Winifred Fullman.


Those in the Parish who live in Molescroft.


Prayers In The Diocese


St Mary, Newington: Stuart Labran (Rector), Ailsa Newby (PTO) (Canon).


Mothers’ Union in Zimbabwe.


Pray for the Bishops, priests, deacons & people of Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil.



Card Stall


If you haven’t looked recently, please take a moment to visit the card stall situated next to the font, new items have just been added. For those of you who do not know, we have a range of reasonably priced greetings cards for all occasions, kindly donated to us, which are sold to help support the work of Penny &Juan Carlos in Peru.


Foreign Coins


As some of you may be returning from foreign holidays we have put a jar on the table by the door for you to donate any coins you have left over that you no longer need. Thank you.


Answers to the September Quiz on Art and Literature:


1. Who wrote the books that inspired TV’s All Creatures Great and Small? James Herriot

2. With whose comic operas is Richard D’Oyly Carte associated? Gilbert and Sullivan

3. Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel both won which literary prize? Booker Prize

4. Which Lancashire-born painter is known for his industrial landscapes dotted with matchstick figures? L. S. Lowry

5. Jacob Epstein is a famous name in which of the arts? Sculpture

6. Primavera and the Birth Of Venus are works by which early Renaissance artist? Sandro Botticelli

7.Who wrote the novels The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful And Dammed? F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. What name is given to Picasso’s monochromatic paintings created between the years 1901 and 1904? The Blue Period

9. What was the first name of the French painter Manet? Edouard

10. Who wrote the 1912 play Pygmalion? George Bernard Shaw

11. Which country is the setting for Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Denmark

12. Featuring characters Danny, Smiffy and Plug, which school hosted a Beano cartoon strip since the 1950s? Bash Street

13. Which fictional hero was the son of Lord Greystoke? Tarzan

14. Which Russian author wrote The Seagull? Anton Chekhov

15. In which Charles Dickens novel does Fagin appear? Oliver Twist

16. Which British Journalist and author is the editor of the satirical Private Eye magazine? Ian Hislop

17. Which poet’s first names were Percy Bysshe? Shelley

18. In which Spanish city is the Museo del Prado? Madrid

19. What type of animal was The Dandy Comic’s Korky? Cat

20. Who wrote the poem I Wandered lonely As A Cloud? William Wordsworth