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The Festival of Ickenham Team is pleased to announce that this year's Ickenham Festive Community Night will be on Friday 12th December.
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The event will run from 6pm to 9pm in and around the area of the Village Hall and local shops.
Many shops and businesses have promised to open late and plan to offer special attractions and hospitality.ć Please support our local traders in this show of community spirit.ć Local organisations, including St Giles‰ Church, schools, Scouts and Guides will be providing stalls along the pavements and will be dishing up fun and food. Inside the Village Hall there will be some 18 local organisations manning stalls and attractions to provide games and goods with a Christmas theme. ććThere will also be a stage programme in the Hall with children singing, band music and a short show from our local Compass Theatre.
We have arranged for Christmas trees and lights to be fitted above the local shops. These are being funded by the generosity of the local traders with the support of Hillingdon Council and the special help of local Councillor, John Hensley. This will provide an appropriate festive atmosphere to the village centre and encourage local residents to visit and explore the variety of businesses and organisations in Ickenham.
If you would like to offer a stall, or attraction, or have any questions about the Ickenham Festive Community Night then please contact Doug Neilson, 01895 633217.
GIRLS‰ CHRISTMAS
DISCO
Another event organised by the Festival of Ickenham Committee is a ëGirls only disco‰. This takes place on Thursday 4th December in St. Giles‰ Church Hall so look out for the posters in the Village. Tickets are available from any member of the Festival Team or Tel. David Millen 637932 or Doug Neilson 633217
To all ICN readers the team wish you a Holy and Peaceful Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.
Receipt is acknowledged, with grateful thanks, of the following
donations towards the cost of I.C.N.:ć Ickenham Morning Townswomen‰s Guild, Mrs. Hierons
from Bath, Sale of six St. Giles‰ History Videos, Anonymous from Uxbridge via
Sue Crane, Advertising Revenue from The Mother‰s Union, Anonymous from Campden
Road via Val Kershaw, Merrel Lawrence from Farnham Common in memory of her
husband Frank‰s birthday via Bobbie Foxford, Mrs. Anselm of Lawrence Drive on
behalf of her daughter in Australia via Peter Brooks, Mrs Byrne of Burnham
Avenue.
Copy for the February 2004
edition should be with me by 13thJanuary. THERE IS NO JANUARY
EDITION.
Organisations please note
that if you wish your activities to be published from February 2004 then you
should send your annual calendar to the editor well before 13th
January 2004.
The Editor‰s thanks go to Joyce Hodt, and Daphne Kissane for all their hard work on the magazine during 2003. Much thanks and gratitude goes, also, to everyone who has distributed and delivered our ten editions during 2003. Thank you to our printers at Stanley L Hunt, especially Mel who has just retired, and to Linda and her team. To all those individuals, and members of societies, who have sent us donations, we are very grateful. Finally, thank you to our advertisers who also help to keep us afloat, and who we hope readers contact when they require goods or services.
PRAYER OF THE MONTH
O God, our
loving Father, help us rightly to remember the birth of Jesus, that we may
share in the songs of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the
worship of the wise men. May the Christmas morning make us happy to be Thy
children, and the Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful
thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus‰ sake.
RL
Stevenson
RUISLIP AND
UXBRIDGE W.E.A.
The A.G.M. lecture and supper were held in Ickenham Village Hall on Saturday 8th November. The Chairman and Secretary, Mrs Elsie Jenkins, reviewed the Branch activities over the year with eight active classes from ‹Modern PoetryŠ to ‹London š Roman Times to the Great FireŠ. She appealed strongly for new members to serve on the Committee, particularly as she, and another member, intend to resign at the next A.G.M. after many years of service.
Richard Palmer, from Birbeck College, London, then gave a comprehensive talk about the Worker‰s Education Association founder, Albert Mansbridge, whose centenary fell in 2003. London was a very different place then, and the W.E.A. struggled and eventually succeeded, in large measure, to serve the educational needs of working people. Above all, Albert Mansbridge was an inspiring and enthusiastic teacher among dockers and artisans.
The members and friends then enjoyed a light buffet supper, with wine.
Keith Dalton
