Remembrance Sunday in Birmingham

Most years I miss Remembrance Sunday at St. Oswald’s, as I return to my family home and church in Birmingham to remember those who gave their lives in wartime service. It has a special poignancy as my father was a veteran of the Normandy campaign and of subsequent action across northern Europe in the later…

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Our Get-Ready-For-Christmas-Fayre goes with a real swing!

Crowds flocked to our Get Ready For Christmas Fayre this afternoon making it a real community event! There was lots to do with several tombolas, jewelery, craft and cake stalls, a magic advent calendar which  gave out chocolates and sweets in abundance (Well done Brownies!), a lovely stall selling Christmas Stockings and Gingerbread Houses full…

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Jack Fell of Manxman Drive has sadly died shortly after reaching 100 years of age. Over sixty years ago as a builder he helped to build the Shadsworth garden estate and then decided to settle there. Click Here for the sensitive Lancashire Telegraph report.