In 1967, Blackburn Town Team lifted the Lancashire Schools’ Trophy and now the team is organising a reunion, except they can’t trace Stewart Cameron, who played for the Shadsworth High School team. Can you help? The article is here.
You may have noticed the new buses these past few months. They are pretty fancy with on-board wireless and gizmos like automatic announcements of each approaching bus stop. Here is a Lancashire Telegraph article about County Councillor John Fillis checking them out.
The St. Oswald’s Knuzden War Memorial has been made a statutory listed building by Historic England. This means that it is now a protected monument. The decision was made because of it’s special historical interest as a lasting memorial to the Knuzden soldiers who gave their lives in the two World Wars. The official documents…
Huge congratulations to Stephanie Baron who won Best Femal Lead in the National Operatic and Drama Associacation (North West) for her role as Geraldine in The Vicar of Dibley with the Oswaldtwistle Players. Stephanie is a member of St. Oswald’s Knuzden and even borrowed some of the Vicar’s vestments (and other props from around church)…
Carol Ratcliffe, a very committed member of St. Oswald’s, keeps meeting herself in all sorts of strange places. This isn’t because she’s busy – meeting herself coming back (although she is a very busy person), but because she is one of the ‘faces’ of Cancer Research’s new poster campaign highlighting bowel cancer testing. Carol was…
The St. Oswald’s Santons have been on display during the Advent and Christmas seasons and will continue into January. They were created by potter Peta Whiting and the Vicar in the autumn of 2016 (Click Here for the post on this). Rev’d Chris and Linda Colton then created a lovely setting for them which has…
Last week, I went on an icon painting retreat at Rydal Hall, which is the Diocese of Carlisle Conference Centre and home of the Rydal Hall Community. The retreat leader and tutor was Rev’d Christopher Perrins. Painting icons is done in a prayerful and thoughtful way and the images are always strictly copied, you never…
I spent much of last week working with Peta Whiting in her pottery workshop near Stowmarket, Suffolk making the St. Oswald’s Nativity santon figures. There is a lot to get done if we are to get these completed in time for Christmas! Santons are small brightly painted pottery figures that form a Nativity scene. They are…
We’ve had a lovely Indian summer and the cottage garden flowers at the back of the Vicarage are now just about ‘hanging on in there’. The same was true of the greenhouse which was on the verge of being derelict. This week, however, it’s been fully repaired and is looking lovely. Autumn is now definitely here but…
The oldest hand-written passages from the Hebrew Bible identical have been identified using digital technology to read an ancient scroll.
Read the BBC report HERE