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SANDFORD-ON-THAMES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER

ISSUE 9

July 88

On August Bank Holiday Monday 29th. August, we will be holding a Flower and Produce show in the Recreation ground, at the same time the Parish church will be holding a Flower Festival in the Church.

We hope to provide the usual stalls i.e. skittles, 'Aunt Sally' as well as holding competitive events for 'Best vegetables, fruit, cakes, wine jam, flower arrangement,' etc. we would also like to hold a 'Best Kept Garden' competition, so...... start preparing now. We will be publishing further details in next Month's link, any suggestions or help you may like to offer will be more than welcome, contact Gwen Absolom on Oxford xxxxxx evenings and weekends Oxford xxxxxx during business hours or Marjorie Harris on Oxford xxxxxx.

We would also ask you to take note that there has been an increase in he cost of hire of the hall to Non-Villagers, this is now £50.00 per day or £30 per session, morning afternoon or evening.

Gwen Absolom.

ANNOUNCEMENTS Have you something you would like to announce? A wedding A new baby? An Anniversary? Just telephone xxxxxx with the details or drop them in at xx Henley Road. (Please include your address or tel.no. so that we can verify the announcement)

Priest-in-charge: The Rev. Robert Morgan, xxx Iffley Road. Tel.xxxxxx

The Fete on 10th June was a happy occasion and a financial success raising £700. Special thanks to all who worked hard for this, both in preparation and on the day. Also to all who attended and spent generously. Without singling out names or giving the break-down from different stalls, games, and bingo, the parish would want to make a particular mention of the children's outdoor efforts (which include parents) in raising £95.

The concerts of the Brookside Singers and the Alauda Quartet have also been much appreciated: it was good to see the rafters ringing to the glory of God on these weekdays.

This will happen between 12.30 and 2 on Friday 8th July. Tea, coffee, lunch snacks will be served. The purpose of the Meeting Point is to offer those who are in the village during the working week, including mothers with toddlers, a place to meet their neighbours. Sandford is a quite fragmented village, and there are few opportunities to get together as a community. So if you are free, come along, however briefly, either on your own or with a child or neighbour, and increase your sense of being part of this local community or just enjoy an hour's break with others from the village.

    Most Christians are more interested in its truth and its personal value than its social usefulness. The pattern of Christian life is accepted because we know the difference between right and wrong, and want to do right. Sunday worship gets things back into focus when the pressures of the week have distorted our vision. Religious beliefs tell the meaning of the world and human life, and unless this is regularly rehearsed and re-enacted the vision becomes dim. In some was being religious is a habit and a skill, which some learn young and others later in life. It does not often provide instant satisfactions, because human life is a long haul, and the goal of religion is for us all to be the people we are meant to become. The invitation is to join a local and a world-wide community, to accept a religious view of the world, and to find daily and weekly help in living it.

    Most adults today have a few scraps of religion left over from their childhood. For some that's enough to put them off for life. For others the echo in the memory may be a nudge to reconsider it in the light of fuller experience. Tomorrow's adults will have fewer memories of childhood religion to draw on. They will have to recover spiritual values for themselves. Without the help of a living tradition expressed in Sunday worship, the odds will be stacked against them.

VILLAGE HALL

	SANDFORD IN THE PAST This is the first, of what will hopefully be a series of articles on the history at Sandford. A YEOMAN FARMER       If you have passed down the village road to the river recently, you will no doubt have seen the demolition of the old barn and farmyard at the bottom of the hill, and the steady rising of a new house on the site. This is probably the last spot in the village to have remained untouched since long before the last war. It is a quiet, secret place (if somewhat foreboding) with a haunting atmosphere, where strange things have been seen, as many of the older villagers will confirm. Known to many generations of villagers as Fry's Yard and Barn (of which the adjacent house was the farmhouse), it has been recorded successively as Tithe or Bassimore Farm.       It was occupied at least from 1720 to comparatively modern times by the Fry family How long before 1720, we do not know. Arthur Fry was farming here in 1721, when his only son, John, was born on the 31st May. However, Arthur did not live to see his son attain his majority, as he died on the 21st. January 1730. He was described as a Yeoman and Maltster, and apart from his household chattels (which included one clock worth 15 shillings and a gun worth 5 shillings) the tools of his stock and trade were remarkably few, when compared with his modern equivalent. For his farming business he had:         three horses and harness. . . . . . . worth £15.2s.6d. Plow and harrows. . . . . . . . . . . . worth £1.5s.0d. A ladder, a grindstone, a wheelbarrow, one shovel and a cart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . worth 4 shillings. His only livestock, other than his horses, appear to have been: Two fat hoggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . worth £6.0s.0d. For his malting, there was: A stock of barley, a rick of barley, 'and in ye barn', 14 quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . worth £10. 0s.0d. Also malt and barley. . . . . . . . . worth £80.0s.0d. (his most valuable stock!) 'For plowing of ten acres and four bushels of good vetches'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . worth £3.0s.0d. For his trade there were: Iron plates for his malt kiln and a couch frame, And in the fields: Four acres of wheat sowed. . . . . worth £9.0s.0d. while: 'the copse of willows in ye garden' . . . . were worth £2.0s.0d. We can suppose then, that for the times, Arthur Fry had been a wealthy man. When his son, John Fry died in 1801 aged 79 years, his memorial described him as 'John Fry - gent.' However, the family appear to have been on a downward slide. Subsequent male descendants are recorded as being farmers, and the last of the Fry family baptisms, in the village church, record for May 1878, 'Thomas - son of Elizabeth and Frederick, labourer - living at the Minchery'.

	The final entry for the family appears on July 1891, when Mary Fry was brought from Long Wittenham to Sandford for burial, aged 77 years. As the writer of Ecciesiasticus put it, "And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished as though they had not been, and are become as though they had not been born." Not that the Fry's have left no memorials, but with the disappearance of their old farmyard, the name is likely to disappear from the village scene. Is it too much to ask that the name will be incorporated into the new house name? I do hope so. KINGCUP

	"Blessed Dominic Barberi Church" Littlemore SUMMER FETE Saturday, 9th July at 2:30 pm. TOMBOLA, WHITE ELEPHANT, NEARLY NEW AND MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!! (Proceeds to the Church Funds)

Any child interested - Please complete the slip below and return it to: Linda Hackett, xxx Henley Road, by 12th July.
Entry fee: 50p/child, £l/family.

(Please note: these events will only take place if supported well).

All too regularly I am subsequently informed of these incident well after the student in question has returned to his or her own country. This totally eliminates any possibility of ever pinning down the minority who make a point of picking on the visitors.
Most students are I know not fluent in the language and in fact probably shun the thought of any form of Police involvement. What I would ask homestay families is that if you have any experiences of a nature which may involve that which I am talking about, PLEASE dont just shrug it off, let me know. Even if it is for information purposes only, I would like to know about it

Finally the other side of the coin.
Last year there were incidents involving students where it was the students who were the instigators of the problems. Brief your homestay Students well.

The police will not hesitate to prosecute ANYONE who involves themselves in any form of violence towards another person and the courts do not look favourably upon such persons found guilty of such offence.

If you have problem or simply want advice on any matter you think may concern Police, you can contact me by ringing Oxford 249881 Extn xxxx Ask to leave me a message and I will get back to you.
Remember in an emergency dial 999

Carl Reynolds

KINGCUP'S DIARY MAY WEATHER

We had 13 days with rain.
1st-4th rain with low temperatures between 50°f and 60°f.
On the 5th the night temperature fell to 36°f, but it was a sunny and warm day with temperatures up to 72°f.
I heard my first cuckoo on the 4th.
5th-8th had temperatures between 72°f and 80°f, but the night temperatures fell to 34°f on the 6th.
Orange tip butterflies were flying.
On the 8th, 1 saw my first swallows and swifts (ten days earlier than last year).
We also had thunder on the 8th.
9th-19th were mainly dry and warm, with odd rain showers. Night-time temperatures were rising, but on the 17th-19th and 21st went down to 28°f.
22nd-27th was dry with some sunshine, mainly with a strong east wind. On the 25th the daytime temperature fell to 46°f during rain.
29th-30th were wet, with some thunder on the 29th.
The night temperature on the 31st was 50°f. The day was dry, with the temperature rising to 66°f.

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