HARRINGWORTH & SHOTLEY News and what's on
SEPTEMBER NEWS
Credit to James Bird for the image above taken recently with a drone. It’s a delight to see these car trains going over Harringworth Viaduct several times a week transporting hundreds of cars from a hub near Nottingham run by Toyota Motor Europe (TME). They are on route to the Channel Tunnel and return laden with cars built in Europe not only saving on CO2 Emissions but keeping hundreds of car transporters off our roads!. If you are interested to know more – click on this link here
HARRINGWORTH 100 CLUB
Congratulations to David Reading for winning the August and Julian O’Neill the September 100 CLUB .
HARRINGWORTH SUPPER CLUB – SIGN UP NOW
We are looking for a few more villagers to sign up to the Supper Club which runs for six months (October – April, excluding December). The aim is to provide a stress-free relaxed supper for six people during each month. Please contact Rona Towell for further information and your details ronatowell@gmail.com.
THANK YOU
Quizmasters Gavin and Jonny would like to thank everyone who helped make the summer pub quiz such a success!
It was a great night and we want to pass on our congratulations to the winning team, The Return of the Americas. The team consisted of Richard Nixon and Boey Ling, their friends Geraldine and Nigel and Giselle and David Rawlins, who pipped the second place team by three points.
In a new addition to the quiz, the winner’s prize is now a £ 50 donation to the charity of the team’s choice…. and in this case the nominated charity was Breast Cancer Now, a charity that changes the lives of people affected by breast cancer by combining the power of research and support.
We hope everyone who took part in the fun had a good night and we look forward to welcoming you all back again on Friday 28 November, same time – same place!!
The Women’s Land Army during
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Be enthralled by this new army doing their National Service; one that made such an incredible contribution to the war effort at home, but that have, in the intervening decades been all but forgotten. The pioneering Women’s Land Army of the Great War years aimed to recruit women largely from wealthier backgrounds for the first time although this was not always the case! For the many women who worked in mainly towns and cities in stable, well-paid jobs or didn’t work at all prior to the war, they were strongly encouraged to come and work on the land, (often for the first time) in large numbers.
HARVEST FESTIVAL
CHRISTMAS ARTISAN MARKET
More details nearer the date.
Fanny Blaydes
Two village couples have undertaken to preserve local history by keeping the Fanny Blaydes memorial site under control. Fanny Blaydes was the wife of the vicar of Harringworth who died in 1884 when her horse drawn carriage overturned on the Gretton Road. There is an engraved stone and an explanation plaque to mark where she died. The area which is cut into the hedge needs the occasional strimming and pruning of bushes to prevent it disappearing once more into the hedgerow.
If anyone would like to volunteer to help we would be pleased to hear from you. Please contact Maggie and John on 07881 912299 or Mary and Matthew on 01572 748663.
If you have some news to share, please email it through to harringworthv@gmail.com
