Sutton Bonington
SERVICE. St. Michael’s Church at Sutton Bonington staged their annual and popular service of Nine Lessons and Carols by Candlelight at the weekend. The collection taken is being divided between three very good causes, Children in Distress, a children’s hospice in Carnovoda in Romania and Rainbows the children’s hospice in Loughborough.
CAROLS. Sutton Bonington was on air on Monday evening, hosting as it did a traditional carols session being sung as part of a Radio Leicester Christmas broadcast. The event took place at the local pub, The Anchor.
CRIB. Services at St. Anne’s Church in Sutton Bonington over the Christmas period include the Blessing of the Crib on Christmas Eve, with the crib figures having been travelling around homes in the village in the month leading up to the service. The Christmas Eve service at St Anne’s was the Midnight Communion service. The collection was for Framework, a local charity delivering housing, health, employment, support and care to people in and around Nottingham with a diverse range of needs. Last year 16,922 people were helped and 2,909 were accommodated.
At the 11 am Family Service on Christmas Day the collection will be for Shelter, the nationwide charity that helps millions of people every year struggling with inadequate housing or homelessness through advice, support and legal services. They campaign to make sure that one day no one will have to turn to them for help.
FOOD COLLECTION. Sutton Bonington Baptist church played its usual festive season role in organising an annual collection of food, all to be donated to the Carpenters Arms at Loughborough. Nothing short of an amazing amount of food items – tins galore, packets and boxes of all descriptions of eatable gifts -- were donated by residents in the village. A reaction message from the church leaders simply and proudly said: “Wow! Thank Mike Elliott 0115 937 6506 elliottnews@btconnect.com you so much to everyone for your generous donations of food for the Carpenters Arms. Rock Solid have had a very busy afternoon collecting and sorting the donations, which will help families across the Loughborough area.”
CONCERT. A large number of people – on stage and off – taking part in the annual Christmas Concert staged at the Sutton Bonington Campus of Nottingham University helped to make it the success it was. Those actually providing the entertainment were ably backed by a team of people who worked hard to ensure the concert, as it is each year, was a big success.
The artists were: Violin I: Adam Clark, Alice Bloodworth, Louise Driscoll, Maya Farlow, Sophia Lewin, Hanna Procter, Ralph Simpson. Violin 2: Dawn Dawson, Katie Freestone, Veronica Paul, Innes Spendier, David Woodhouse, Lana Yarsley.
Viola: Amy Greenfield, Richard Gillis, Sarah Jones. Flute: Catherine Burns, Andrew Cook, Phoebe Johnson, Caitlin Marshall, Charlotte Riley, Megan Terry, Chloe Smith.
Trombone: Tom Chalker. Cello: Alexander Bridgen, Rachael Crosland, Imogen Elliott.
French Horn: Karen Gray, Molly Coup, Liam Cremona. Trumpet: Elizabeth Mellor, Joseph Simpson.
Double Bass: George Kivneen, Devayani Patel, Josh Stevens.
Clarinet Bass: Siobhan Simpson. Oboe: Phoebe Little.
Clarinet: Cameron Dee, Nicolien Dinklo, Alice Huxley, Alex Jenner, Christabella Ng, Robyn Turner.
Piano: Cyllene Wu, Shiyi Tang.
Percussion: Cameron Dee, Kian Guerzoni.
Sutton Bonington Singers Soprano: Stephanie Andrews, Sophie Battern, Georgia Battersby-Hill, Alice Bloodworth, Lizzie Boulter, Rachael Crosland, Winsome Eu, Gill Howdle, Zoe Huggett, Phoebe Johnson, Lisa Kämmerling, Shelley Nicholls, Mary Phillips-Jones, Charlotte Riley, Katie Rollinson-James, Jesselyn Selvaraj, Thalia Smale, Rachael Tarlington
Alto: Lilli Atkin, Phoebe Anderson, Louise Bosier, Victoria Chapman, Sarah Clarke, Fiona Fielder, Karen
Gray, Clare Horden, Isabel Keshinin, Zuzanna Lorenz, Femke Smits, Hannah Steele, Shiyi Tang, Sky Tetlow, Sabine Tötemeyer.
Tenor: James Finnie, David Gray, Brian Hinners, Garth Humphreys, Brian Kirk, Thomas McBride, Luis Salazar Licea, Innes Sperdier, Keith Taylor, Marian Young.
Bass: Arnold Goodwin, Steven Harding, Trevor Littledyke, Nat Kane, George Randell-Sly, Ralph Simpson, Trevor Taylor.
CAROL SERVICE. Sutton Bonington’s Christian Union at the village campus of Nottingham University staged a Christmas Carol Service in The Barn, attended by students and residents.
The event offered a free evening of carols, mince pies and a short talk on the Christmas Story.
NATIVITY. Youngsters took part in a Christmas Narrative in St. Anne’s Church in Sutton Bonington with the children being given the opportunity to dress up and take part in the Nativity. are asked to go to the service.
INNOCENTS. Holy Innocents Day when the Church remembers the babies who were slaughtered by King Herod in an attempt to kill the baby Jesus will be recognised at St. Anne’s Church in Sutton Bonington on Saturday, December 28.
On Holy Innocents’ Day the Church remembers children and babies who have died or been miscarried.
Candles will be available in St. Anne’s Church throughout the day to light in memory of holy innocents.
NO SERVICE. On the Sunday after Christmas, December 29, there will be no service in St. Anne’s Church in Sutton Bonington. Instead there will be a joint service of Holy Communion in St James’ Church in Normanton-on-Soar at 9.30 am PANTO FUN. Children at Sutton Bonington Primary School had a busy and exciting run up to Christmas starting with a visit for Years One and Two pupils to the pantomime Loughborough Town Hall to see Jack and the Beanstalk.
There was a wide array of designs being worn by the children on the school Christmas Jumper Day and then the school parties did as usual provide a super end-of-term time for everyone at the school, with lots of party food being served an d party games being played.
Last Day of term was Friday, with headmaster Leer Shilton giving a message saying he hoped everyone would have a lovely Christmas! Back to school day for the Spring Term is January 20.
HERBS. Growing and using herbs will be the subject of a talk given by Sally Smith at the next meeting of Sutton Bonington Horticultural Society.
The meeting will be held on January 16 in the village hall. There has been no meeting of the society in December.
TRIBUTES. Many tributes have been paid to the late Sheila Pinson Turner, a long-time resident of Sutton Bonington, who died earlier this year just a few months short of her 100th birthday.
In the current parish magazine, Sheila is described ‘as a wonderful member of the Sutton Bonington community. Who worked tirelessly for the Church, the Royal British Legion, the Conservatives, the NSPCC, the WI, the Mothers’ Union and the South Trent Wives’.’
Sheila was born just after the end of WW1. Her father, William Neil, came to the UK from New Zealand and went on to become the senior surgeon at Nottingham General Hospital.
According to the tribute Sheila had a ‘privileged upbringing at No 9 The Ropewalk with a full complement of live-in staff.’
Sheila went to boarding school in Wales and then trained as a pharmacist in London during the second phase of the Blitz.
Working at Nottingham General Hospital in 1946 she was invited to meet a colleague’s Canadian cousin, Rupert Hewlett, ‘they fell in love and married at St. Nicholas’ Church in 1947
Rupert was a mining engineer and with their two sons, Jim and Peter, Sheila and Rupert moved to Canada. Sheila was eight and a half months pregnant with her daughter Rosemary when Rupert ‘tragically died in a road accident.’
The family returned to England to live with Sheila’s mother in Nottingham.
There then followed ‘a long, slow courtship with Neville Turner’, a Normandy veteran, cricketer and timber merchant who lived at Hillcroft, College Road, Sutton Bonington.
Neville was a churchwarden at St. Michael’s Church in the village for many years and a great supporter of the unformed organisations.
Sheila and Neville married in 1962 at St. Nicholas’ Church and the family moved to Hillcroft. Neville died in 1979 and eventually Sheila retired to 116 Main Street, her mother-in-law’s previous home.
Sheila undertook her husband’s position as churchwarden at St. Michael’s for many years, ‘a duty she loved and performed most conscientiously. This included locking and unlocking the church each day with her beloved spaniel by her side.’
The tribute describes Sheila as ‘a lovely person with a smile and an encouraging word for end -of-term time for everyone and she always made the best of every situation.’
In her later years she moved to Manton Hall to be near her daughter, Rosemary.
Her funeral was held at St. Michael’s Church in the village earlier this year.
CHURCH FETE. Sutton Bonington Church Fete has been given early notice to residents, and will be held in the grounds of Sutton Bonington Hall by kind permission of Claire and Edward Elton on Sunday, May 17
HISTORY SOCIETY. Stories about the man who founded the internationally-famous Brush Company’s Falcon Works in Loughborough featured at the meeting of Sutton Bonington’s Local History Society.
Hugh Griffiths was the guest speaker at the meeting
The Brush Company is famous for its many products which have including tram cars, locomotives, steam turbines, power generating equipment, control systems and even aircrafts.
Hugh explained why the factory came to be in Loughborough, its history and the story of its founder – Charles Francis Brush – a remarkable American inventor.
At the following meeting Peter Hammond was the guest speaker and his subject was Joseph Woolley: The Diary of a Framework Knitter.
Meetings of the Local History Society are held at 7.30 pm in the Methodist Church Schoolroom in Main Street in the village and visitors are always welcome. Entrance is £3 including coffee.