No. 5. Do we see a dog or two here and there?

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The idea of a Christingle service came originally from the Moravian Church in 1747 as a symbol of Christ’s light and love. The Children’s Society introduced it to the Church of England in 1986, and it has since become a popular service for all ages. This was the twenty-seventh service in the Church of St James the Less in Sulgrave. All money collected goes to the good work of the Children’s Society with the least fortunate of today’s young people. See the next page for more photographs of the children performing their nativity play and receiving the oranges with lighted candles….

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Three French Hens for Day 3!

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Viewers are invited to form their own opinions as to the identity of the three wise men and the ass!

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For the third successive year, 24 Sulgrave residents have volunteered to decorate one of their “street windows” in the manner of an advent calendar. Each window is carefully covered until the official unveiling on the chosen day, in the presence of villagers enjoying mulled wine and other Christmas fare. Thus in the run up to Christmas there is an opportunity to attend a mini street party every night in December, up to and including Christmas Eve!  The first such event featured the Village Community Shop on December 1st, as shown above. More pictures of the window, the party goers and some background information on the shop on the next page.

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Photograph by S.W.A.Newton, reproduced by permission of Historic England Archive

Colin Wootton writes:

Victorian photographer S.W.A.Newton, of Leicester, made a comprehensive photographic record of the construction of the Great Central Railway between 1896 and 1900. The railway has long gone but fortunately his photographic record remains. Travelling by train and bicycle he also visited and photographed street scenes in villages near to the new railway. The glass plate negatives he produced would have required a large camera and a sturdy tripod and the plates would have needed careful transportation back to his father’s photographic business in Leicester for processing. He produced almost 1000 photographs and the whole undertaking must have indeed been a labour of love! A high resolution digital scan of one of these photographs, of Manor Road, Sulgrave, has now been acquired and reveals the then street scene in quite astonishing detail. From this scan it has been possible to make some very interesting enlargements of people and objects in Manor Road, which can be seen on the next page.

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Notice from the Parish Council:

Repurposing the Village Public Telephone Box

The Parish Council wants to hear your ideas for repurposing the village’s public telephone box.

BT is removing a number of telephone boxes across South Northamptonshire and has decided to remove the telephone box in the village – next to the village shop – because of the low number of calls made from it (only 1 call was made in the past 12 months).

While BT will still remove the telephone, the Parish Council has decided to adopt the telephone box and repurpose it into something that will benefit the village.

There are many ways in which the telephone box could be given a new life: public art gallery, notice board, village guide, housing for a defibrillator or library. These are just a few ideas. The Parish Council wants to hear yours.

If you have an idea for how the telephone box could be repurposed, you can share it with the Parish Council through:

• Email: send it to [email protected]
• Twitter: tweet your idea to @SulgraveVillage using the hashtag #mysulgrave
• Facebook: Like the Sulgrave Village Facebook page and leave a comment after the kiosk repurposing post.
• In person at the Village Shop: leave your idea in the ‘Ideas Book’ located in the village shop.
• Telling your Parish Councillors

You have until 31^st of December to share your ideas for repurposing the telephone box.

The Parish Council will consider the ideas at its January meeting and decide on the one it feels will be best for the village. The outcome will then be published in the February edition of Sulgrave News.

The Parish Council looks forward to hearing your ideas, so get your thinking caps on!

Kate Miles writes:

We will be holding our annual Christingle service on Sunday 4th December in the Church. This is a beautiful service, with Christingle oranges, and a Christmas play involving children from the village which makes a wonderful start to Christmas and raises much needed money for the Children’s Society….Do join us if you can! 

Kate Miles, Box Secretary, Children’s Society

See photographs from previous Christingle Services

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