Village Advent Celebrations 2019. December 2nd. The bus shelter becomes a Nativity Scene.

As is now customary, the village bus shelter is decorated at the beginning of Advent by the Sulgrave Women’s Activity Group. See next page for photographs of the volunteers at work in the afternoon and the unveiling ceremony in the evening. Click on “read the rest of this entry.

 

The volunteers meet up…….

 

……the donkey is securely tethered….

 

……and the bus shelter awaits the unveiling.

 

Refreshments are baked in the nearby village shop.

 

6.30 approaches and villagers arrive…..

 

……to be offered mulled wine………

 

…..mince pies……….

 

…and sausage rolls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time for the unveiling………

 

………and the nativity scene is revealed……

 

….flanked by the donkey…..

 

….and the sheep….

 

…..and a notice giving details of the accommodation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HISTORY OF THE BUS SHELTER (Re-cycled from previous years!)

Photograph: Colin Wootton

Bus shelter under construction in 1964 (Left to Right: Sandy MunroSidney Wootton, Aubrey Carpenter (in background), Ken Lake and Fred Golby (on scaffolding).

 

                                                          Photograph: Colin Wootton

The bus shelter in 1974. The magnificent elm tree in the background stood in a field which is now part of Peter and Clare Pollak’s garden. It perished from Dutch Elm Disease in that year, as did all of the other wonderful elm trees in the Parish.

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