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LET’S MAKE MERRY IN TEWKESBURY! However you are planing to celebrate and whatever your interests might be, there’s plenty to entertain you in our Tewkesbury this festive season.

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This year’s Pantomime at the Roses Theatre is the classic fairtyale ‘Beauty and the Beast’, with a variety of shows that will appeal to all ages.

Regional Ska/Punk heroes Spunge return to the Watson Hall in Barton Street for the ‘Xmas Bash 2’ from 6.30pm on Saturday 16th December.

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Santa flies in for a special family show Santa Claus is taking time out of his Christmas preparations to visit Tewkesbury Garden Centre on Friday 8th December.

He’ll be joined by Sven the Reindeer Handler for a magical interactive family show, guaranteed to bring a sense of fun, laughter and anticipation to all.

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“It was a no brainer really, said Rich.

“All the bands went down a storm, and everyone who attended had a great night out, so we just had to do it again.” The line up is the same as last year with 4ft Fingers from Cheltenham and Johnny Clash in support for the night.

Tickets are available online from wegottickets. com/event/590433 Inside this issue you will find details of many events and entertainments in and around Tewkesbury over Christmas and New Year.

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Memphis

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and was glad that I was prompted/ reminded about it when it was long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2023. Memphis as a city vibrates throughout this very readable novel, the cast of characters though small is helpfully listed with a family tree. This is useful as the story takes the reader back across the years, each chapter titled with a character's name and the year.

The novel starts in 1995 when Miriam has left her husband and brought her two girls, Joan and Mya, back to the North family home in Memphis where her half-sister August still lives with her son, Derek, a problem boy. There is some bad family history between these parts of the family but that is something Miriam has to put aside as she fears for her life from her abusive Marine husband, Jaxson. Over the course of the book their family history and the good then bad times of Miriam and Jaxson's marriage are revealed. The main focus of the children is on Joan, the only one who recounts her own chapters. She is always drawing, art becoming ever more important in her life as Miriam's family settle into the North home; a house built by her father, Myron, for Hazel his wife which they saved up for. A very individualistic house with two wings and a bright yellow door, a feature; the two families living in their own halves but sharing kitchen facilities.

Over the years, the novel spans through to 2003 by which time Joan is 18, and the family has evolved and grown up.

Miriam has trained to become a nurse, while August, a hairdresser with a loyal clientele chain smokes her way through the book, when not singing; she has a memorable voice, little heard outside their four walls, a wasted talent, a single mother needing to be at home.

The grandparents story of Hazel and Myron is fea-

tured back as far as 1937; it is a story of love at first sight, devotion to each other until Myron who survived WW2 is killed while on duty as Memphis's first black police detective.

Hazel though is surrounded by memories in the house he built which has quaint artistic features in it; Joan's skill inherited from him.

Outside the family there are a couple of important characters, in particular Miss Dawn, a neighbour who is always there and seemingly helps each generation with advice, encouragement even a bit of maybe witchcraft. Stanley Koplo runs the local shop just down their street. His store has North family history and experiences and he is a true friend to each of the generations. These the two featured neighbours in a locality where together they all look after their own community.

This novel is the story of the North family women.

Not only is their art and music integral to their history, so is quiltmaking, gardening and their other skills all of which enhance the storytelling. However over these years Memphis was suffering racial discrimination, gang warfare, poverty and so much more; the author manages to bring this all out in a frank readable way. This book is a good read providing an authentic look at AfricanAmerican life through the decades before the last century turned with the millennium.

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Continued from Page 1 Tewkesbury is blessed with a wide choice of independent restaurants, cafés and inns who are pulling out all the stops to help you celebrate in style.

During 2023 we’ve seen a variety of new businesses adding to Tewkesbury’s culinary choice from around the world.

Thai and Japanese food cuisine is

CHRISTMAS IN TEWKESBURY now firmly on the menu, alongside other tempting Indian, Asian, Chinese Bangladeshi, and Italian restaurants for which the own is renowned.

Not to forget the best of British too!

You can listen to festive music and choral singing in our churches, enjoy craft fairs, markets

or wreath making workshops, sing along to music in pubs and other venues, dance at daytime discos or just shop to your heart’s content in our wonderful independent shops, where you are

sure to find the perfect gift for your loved ones this Christmas.

Fresh locally-grown Christmas trees are now available from Tewkesbury Garden Centre or direct from Pamington

Christmas Tree Farm; you will find details further on in this magazine.

And when its all over, why not blow the cobwebs away with train ride on the ‘Mince Pie Specials’ over at the Glos

Warks Steam Railway?

A brief summary of events in and around the area can be found on pages 30, 31, 53, 55 and 56.

Finally, all of us here at Tewkesbury Direct would like to wish our readers, advertisers and other supporters a very Merry Christmas.

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WORK BEGINS ON OUTLET CENTRE Work has begun on the Cotswold Designer Outlet Centre at Ashchurch.

With phase one set to open in Spring 2025, the centre will introduce fashion, lifestyle, homewares, sport, outdoors and F&B brands, in a beautifully designed setting that creates a premium guest experience for visitors.

Developer Robert Hitchins has had long term aspirations to create a premium retail outlet centre in this location, which benefits from strong connectivity by road, with Ashchurch for Tewkesbury Railway Station within a 5-minute walk from site, as well as a new shuttle bus service which will connect with Tewkesbury.

The construction project is expected to create more than 300 jobs, while the outlet centre is likely to create up to 500 new retail job opportunities for the area.

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Christmas is a busy time for most people. So much to think about and so much to prepare. The to-do list grows by the day.

The puppets at Holy Trinity Church are also very busy getting ready to welcome the community to the Christingle services on Christmas Eve (3pm & 4.30pm).

They are busy recording their songs, practising their dance moves, perfecting their choreog-

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They have ordered the snow that always falls at the end of the service and will be preparing the oranges with the candles and sweets to distribute to all the children. So

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World famous brand arrives in Ashchurch Local businesswoman Shelley Wilkinson has opened a new venture within The Malt House Emporium at Ashchurch.

Shelley, who is known to many in the Tewkesbury area through her business Positive Pilates, is selling quality preloved jewellery (including rings, bracelets and necklaces), sunglasses, perfume and much more from the worldrenowned Tiffany brand.

“I am so proud to announce Preloved Tiffany & Co. is now trading

at The Malt House Emporium, Ashchurch Road, in Tewkesbury,” said Shelley.

“The word preloved, by definition, means the item was loved by someone before being offered for sale. Many resellers often leave out the factor of previously loving the item, others take pride in the fact that their items have been loved.

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“So, come and be tempted by some beautiful quality Tiffany & Co. items, ideal Christmas gifts to treat yourself or a loved one.”

The Malt House Emporium is just off the A46 at Ashchurch, at Unit 2 on Tewkesbury Retail Park. You will find Preloved Tiffany & Co right by the checkout.

The emporium is open from 10am until 5pm Monday to Saturday, and 10am to 4pm on Sundays. There is plenty of free parking on site.

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The windows were of the highest quality and the installation team were incredibly neat and professional. I highly recommend Clearway to anyone looking for new windows.”

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Black Belt Success For Students Eight students from the White Tiger Martial Arts Academy based at the Wheatpieces Community Centre in Tewkesbury have been promoted to Black Belt or higher Dan grades after a gruelling four hour National Ch’ang-Hon Taekwon-Do Association Black Belt grading on Saturday 23rd September 2023.

Finlay Bourton (14) and Darcey Coleman (17) were promoted to BoDan’s (probationary Black Belts due to their age) and will have to show a further six months of continued dedication and commitment before being promoted to fully fledged 1st degree (1st dan) black belts.

Andrew Coleman, Finlay Coleman, Kerry Whiting, Gary Whiting and Andrew Etherington were promoted to 2nd degree (2nd Dan) whilst Robert Clingan was promoted to 3rd degree (3rd Dan).

They all had to perform various disciplines that included advanced leg and hand techniques, set sparring combinations, free sparring, realistic Self-Defence (including being seated and groundwork), patterns (attack and defence combinations in various directions), Knife Defences, breaking wooden boards and tiles plus a theory test to ensure a good knowledge of Taekwon-Do. Nihal Singh and Henry Mealing have also both been promoted from

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PEGGY SUE’S WINS MOBILE BAR OF THE YEAR

m Emma Tart with her Mobile Bar of the Year award

Everyone at St. Nicholas Ashchurch wishes you a Very Happy Christmas.

We invite you to join us in Church for; m Christmas Tree Festival 1st & 2nd December 10am – 4pm 3rd December 1pm – 4pm m Carol Service Accompanied by Tewkesbury Town Band 17th December @ 6pm m Christingle Service 24th December @ 4pm m Christmas Day Family Service At St Nicholas Kemerton 10.30am We look forward to welcoming you.

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Emma Tart, owner of the Peggy Sue brand, has won Mobile Bar of the Year at the Wedding Industry Association Awards held recently at Edgbaston.

Emma started her business with a converted horse box and now runs two, she is a favourite choice for weddings, christenings and parties in the area.

Often attending many events at Twyning Court, Emma offers many bar choices including cocktails, real ales, wine and gin options.

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TEWKESBURY CHORAL SOCIETY Saturday 2nd December Handel Messiah, Part One and Haydn, Little Organ Mass.

Regency Sinfona Directed by John Holloway At Tewkesbury Abbey Tickets £18

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CHILD £25 UNDER 10’S

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GWSR’s river works alleviate flooding Unnoticed by many travellers on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway’s (GWSR) trains leaving Winchcombe station for Broadway, is the River Isbourne.

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Following significant civil engineering works, the river now flows freely beneath the high railway embankment.

The recently completed works comprising two separate contracts to correct developing bank erosion and mitigate the risk of flooding, has been vindicated following October’s heavy rainfall with the River Isbourne running at an unusually high level.

Ian Scholey, the GWSR’s Infrastructure Manager and a civil engineer by profession, explains: “This is an area with a history of flooding, which has caused erosion of the banks at the foot of the railway embankment and increased the risk of damaging the railway embankment itself.

“In addition, deposits of gravel had formed an island on the upstream side of the bridge, interrupting the flow of water.

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both the need to carry out works elsewhere on the railway, as well as Covid and flooding in 2020, which emphasised the need for the river work to be completed as a matter of urgency.

In recent storms the river was a metre and a half above its normal level, a flow which could

have caused extensive damage if the works had not been undertaken.

The River Isbourne rises on the northern edge of Cleeve Hill and runs 14 miles (22km) to join the River Avon at Hampton in Evesham.

The award winning heritage railway has reached the end of another successful season, culminating with its ever popular Santa Special trains.

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As well as beautiful and unusual fashions at Pretty Special, you will always find gorgeous silver jewellery set with semi precious stones, funky and practical bags, scarves in a myriad of colours, bamboo socks and lots of fabulous gift ideas at really affordable prices!

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Our wish to you this Christmas time All of the team at Body2Soul would like to thank all customers for their support during 2023 and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year

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Rachael’s Reasons to Have Massage During Winter Massages during the winter has many benefits not only for your body but also for your mental health.

• As our immunity is weaker at this time, massage is a great way to boost your immune system to help keep away the winter colds.

• Do you also experience dry skin during the winter? Massage will help as the oils nourish and hydrate your skin therefore reducing dry skin irritation • Your circulation is increased which helps to ease off the cold winter aches • Facials are also great to have during Winter for the same reasons as massage. So why not have a combination of both?

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Great offers on tickets this month for this much loved Summer Festival.

Dan Pardoe, Director of App-Fest, has launched App-Fest 2024 to be held for the third year running at Hillworth Farm, Yardbridge, Longdon, Tewkesbury.

Early announcements include Feeder, The Boomtown Rats, Cast,

Scouting for Girls, Nik Kershaw and Callum Beattie, with many more acts to follow.

Dan said, “I am offering Christmas Cracker discounts, 10% off 1 to 4 tickets, 15% off 5 or more and 10% off for families, ideal as a

thoughtful Christmas gift for someone, they will be only available until January 1st 2024.

I know, App-Fest has always been a favourite of local people, it would be great to have as many of you come and enjoy our fabulous Summer

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Students plan Bristol to Cardiff charity run Three Tewkesbury-born students from the University of Bristol having taken up the challenge of running over the Severn Bridge to raise money for the Mind charity, and narcolepsy awareness.

With three friends, they will set off on Saturday 2nd December, venturing over varied terrain from the rugged Bristol Downs, across the Severn into Wales, to finish at Cardiff Castle in the city centre.

The challenging route is around 70km.

Joe Hughes, from Tewkesbury, said: “Mental health conditions affect millions worldwide, yet the stigma surrounding them persists.

“Our mission is to break the silence within our small group and to help promote being more open with the homies as well as important charities like Mind.

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November’s meeting was extremely enjoyable - food and drink all round! Michelle and her daughter treated us to some wonderful recipes, tear-and-share cheese scone, leek and potato soup and her home made Irish cream. We are all having a go at that one for Christmas! Many thanks Michelle for a wonderful evening, and we certainly hope you can visit us again.

Our programme for 2024 is now complete with a variety of subjects to suit all, from wildlife in your garden to making glass, and dog sleds to sign language.

Mitton W.I. meet at Mitton Manor School 7.30pm every first Monday of the month (unless bank holiday). All welcome so come along and join us. If you would like more information please ring 01684 292385, Mitton-WI@gmail.com or look for Mitton WI on Facebook.

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STORM DEBI RESCUE MISSION FOR SEVERN UNIT MVS Just as Storm Debi (the 4th named storm of the season) hit Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury based Severn Unit Maritime Volunteer Service went to the aid of a 28ft cruiser which had sunk 5 miles up-river on the Avon.

Head of Unit Nic Price said “With extremely high winds gusting over 30mph this proved to be a very difficult operation. We used our 26ft cruiser Minerva and also our Rigiflex dinghy and between the two boats and a crew of five were able to tow the stricken vessel back down to Tewkesbury Marina.

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TEWKESBURY & DISTRICT u3a OPEN MORNING Tewkesbury & District u3a held their annual Open/Membership Renewal Morning at the Baptist Church Hall on 13 November. This was an opportunity to inform people about our organisation, recruit more members and allow current members to renew their membership.

The Morning was a great success with about 160 attending, including some 35 non-members with more than 20 deciding to join our u3a on the day. Most of our Groups had a stall, some with elaborate displays or videos of activities.

Our u3a has about 550 members taking part in some 35 varied Group activities including languages (Spanish, Latin and several French Groups), making things (needlecraft and other crafts), games (bridge, scrabble and mahjong), learning and enhancing techniques (ancient history, discovering Britain, family history, computers, photography, and science & technology), some slightly more physical activities (strolls and walking, skittles, pétanque, table tennis, short mat bowls and kurling -not on ice), plus several art Groups, a Book Club, opera appreciation, guitar Group, discussions and solo groups, and a Garden Visits Group. Other Group ideas are welcome and some new ones were suggested on the day.

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While it is time for us to move on from our office at 27 Church Street, we certainly did not want to leave the town centre that is such a big part of our rich history, and in fact, it almost feels like we haven’t moved at all as our new office is at 34 Church Street, GL20 5SN, just the other side of the crescent.

The new office of Thomson & Bancks is a beautiful timber framed building with plenty of character forming the end of The Abbey Lawn Cottages adjacent to The Crescent. With views of Tewkesbury Abbey and its peregrine nesting tray, it is a lovely property for the Thomson & Bancks Tewkesbury team to call home.

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our team and Managing Partner, Paul Johnson, commented “I would like to thank all our staff as it has been a huge team effort to get the new office up and running. We have announced our relocation to reassure clients of our enduring commitment to being at the heart of Tewkesbury.

Most of our team live in Tewkesbury Borough, and we are delighted to be of service to our own community.”

While we are still working on the official signage for 34 Church

Street, we want clients to know that the new office is open during our usual opening hours, Monday to Friday from 9am until 5pm, and clients are welcome to pop into reception just to say hello and familiarise themselves with our new location because as a client of Thomson & Bancks ‘You matter to us’.

Don’t forget that Thomson & Bancks is supporting the Roses Theatre production of Beauty and the Beast this Christmas. Please see the show if you can.

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The Chequers Inn: 18 Church Street In 1832, William Bubb wrote his will. He left his house, at the sign of the King’s Arms, occupied by Thomas Buckley, to his wife. A later document identifies this building, and plot extending to the Swilgate, as 18, Church Street. At some point, its name changed to the Three Legs, but in about 1808 the building, including much of the adjoining Bubb’s Alley, was demolished and the present one erected by William Gardner, who called it the Chequers Inn. It remained an inn until 1869, when its last landlord, William Dossett, sold it.

William Gardner quickly established a role for the inn as a venue for

agricultural and property auctions. It was also the place where meetings of the Provident Society, a pension fund, were held. William Gardner died in 1828 and the Inn was sold. The next landlord, Charles Creese, stayed for about ten years. Henry White, His successor, was an interesting character. Born in Chipping Sodbury, he was trading as a hosier in Tewkesbury before taking the Chequers in 1841. He had some very esoteric skills. He was a champion quoits player and so proficient at shooting pennies tossed into the air that he was claimed to be the best in the kingdom. He set about making his tavern a venue for musical concerts and for banquets.

He founded the ‘Ancient Abbey’ lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows (the White Rose lodge met in the Hop

Trade must have been slow. There were four landlords in ten years and in 1869 it was put up for sale.

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The notice of sale describes a very substantial premises, with a parlour, tap room, club room and sitting room over the ground and first floors. There were stables with an entrance from the Swilgate Road.

It was purchased by William Morse and became a butcher’s shop for many years, most of them trading with the Bloxham name.

The butchers seemed to cause more problems than the inn, especially to the now retired Alderman James Blount Lewis, who lived next door. Despite his strong protestations a licence was granted to erect a slaughterhouse at the back. He also wrote to the Council to complain that the ornamental iron verandah (sic) which Mr Morse had erected over the front door and window contravened the bye-laws. The council disagreed, and it remains a feature of the property.

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Pole). In 1842, seventy Oddfellows sat down to dine, so facilities must have been substantial.

He was also High Warden of the Cordwainer’s Guild. In 1852, the much more prestigious Hop Pole became available, and Henry White moved there.

Henry Groves, the next landlord, continued to offer facilities for middle class clubs and societies. The Conservative Club started to meet there. Indeed, his ‘Housewarming Dinner’ was presided over

by William Dowdeswell, MP. More ‘artisan’ interests began to creep in. A dinner for sixty employees of Hancock and Jeynes, working on the new Severn Lock in 1856, refreshments after cricket matches on the Ham and dinners for the Rifle Corps.

In 1858, Mr Groves moved to the Black Bear, and trading at the Chequers had clearly become difficult. A ‘free and easy’ musical evening was advertised on Tuesdays. There was a change in political direction with meetings of the Liberal Reform Club.

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From BBC to Broadway at Probus Club Most people will know that the BBC recently celebrated a century of broadcasting since its first ever broadcast from 2LO on 14th November 1922 and at Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill Probus Club our recognition of this was a visit from speaker David Howe who has been to us on several occasions.

He is not only an expert in the quirks and idiosyncrasies of the English language but is also an avid enthusiast of radio

entertainment. His talk was entitled “100 years of the BBC” and we enjoyed a morning of pure nostalgia as David with

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the help of a slide projector, David sat for the whole morning (only interrupted by our coffee break) and captivated and amused us with all manner of stories from classic radio and TV programmes, never forgotten by members of Probus Club.

After visiting RAF Cosford not too long ago we recently enjoyed another one of our external visits to paces of interest and this time we spent a very interesting morning much closer to home at the Broadway Museum.

The museum contains many artefacts collected by and donated to the museum over the years but our guides also told us about the history and the changing structure of the building itself, being originally one of many coaching inns in Broad-

way where wealthy travellers arriving by coach were treated to a fine lunch whilst the horses were changed before their journey continued.

If you are a retired professional or businessman looking for something new to stimulate your retirement in a social environment, you would be very welcome to join us as a guest at one of our Tuesday morning meetings.

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TEWKESBURY FLOWER CLUB Our next meeting is on Tuesday 12th December at Bushley Village Hall, GL20 6HT, doors open at 1.30pm and the meeting begins at 2.00pm.

This month our demonstrator is Sally Taylor from Bristol and her title is “Carry on Christmas”. Visitors are very welcome to join us and entrance is £6. Join us for an entertaining afternoon watching an expert arrange beautiful flowers. All the arrangements are raffled at the end of the demonstration.

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RAMBLING AROUND with Jack B. Walker

AROUND KEMERTON’S LAKES

This is one of my favourite winter walks, particularly around Christmas time, as it’s not too taxing if I’ve over indulged(!) - and there is always something interesting to see, writes Jack B. Walker.

December sun, Kemerton Park field

Distance: about 4 miles. Paths can be wet/muddy.

Parking: street parking, with care, in Back Lane near Saint Nicholas Church Map: not to scale - OS Sheet 190 recommended Refreshments: The Crown Inn, Kemerton, or Kemerton Coffee Shop (seasonal hours).

I suggest wearing footwear suitable for wet ground, and please keep all dogs on leads (livestock in some fields).

Park near St Nicholas Church, and walk back towards the heart of the village. At the first junction take the track on the right (1) and walk down until you reach a stream.

Keep ahead with the stream to your left, cross a long wooden footbridge over a weir, and bear right into a field (2).

Follow the path across it and into another field, bear right and keep the large pond in the grounds of Upper Court to your right, until you reach a stile/gate (3).

Cross the stile, bear right and then left on to a track, keeping the hedge to your right. Beyond the hedge is Lower Mill - one of several former mills in Kemerton - which was once the home of the writer and naturalist John Moore. Part of the land behind the house is now a nature reserve, preserved in the late author’s memory.

Keep along the path until you reach a small wood on your left. At the end of the wood, bear

sharp right (4), and carry on along the edge of the field until you reach a footbridge (5). Cross and go up the bank and bear right, following the path until you reach a driveway (6). Here turn left, and then left again on to a narrow lane, which bears right. Follow this until you reach the road, turn right and then left (7) through the gate which leads to Kemerton Lake. Follow the lane between the hedges, until you meet another track (8). Turn left here, and carry on along the path through the trees, emerging at Kemerton Lake.

The lake and reserve is managed by a conservation trust, and attracts a variety of birds all year round. There is a hide at the end of a jetty where you can observe them.

Return to point 8, walk on, then bear left (9) on to a path through the wood, over another footbridge, passing by the nurseries and on to a road. Turn right, walk on to the next path on the right (11), and go down it through a wood. Cross over the track into the Park field (12), and follow the arrows to reach

the road (13). Cross over and then go into and

then across an orchard, to return to Back Lane.

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WHAT’S ON in the Midlands

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UTILITA ARENA, BIRMINGHAM Thurs 14th Dec: Leona Lewis Fri 15th Dec: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sat 16th Dec: Madness + The Lightning Seeds www.utilitaarenabham.co.uk NEC BIRMINGHAM Fri 1st - Sun 3rd Dec: Classic Antiques Fairs Fri 1st - Sun 3rd Dec: The Super Weekender www.thenec.co.uk CHELTENHAM TOWN HALL Sun 3rd Dec: The Best of Hans Zimmer Thurs 7th Dec: Royal Marines Christmas Spectacular Fri 15th Dec: Judge Jules Christmas Party www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk

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EVERYMAN, CHELTENHAM Until Sat 30th Dec: A Christmas Carol Until Sat 30th Dec: The Ugly Duckling www.everymantheatre.org.uk PLAYHOUSE, CHELTENHAM Fri 15th - Sun 31st Dec: Aladdin Sat 16th Dec: Chelt Community Choir Christmas www.cheltplayhouse.org.uk

A family run Italian Restaurant A great selection to choose from on our à la carte menu - all government guidelines in place for worry-free dining Check out our delicious menu on the website www.zittoemangia.co.uk or call 01684 297017 to make a reservation

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BACON THEATRE, CHELTENHAM Wed 6th - Fri 8th Dec: Nativity, The Musical Sat 16th Dec: Christmas Movie Magic bacontheatre.co.uk THE HENRICIAN, EVESHAM Sat 9th Dec: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol www.henrician.org GUILDHALL, GLOUCESTER Sat 23rd Dec: Festive Burlesque and Cabaret gloucesterguildhall.co.uk THE COURTYARD, HEREFORD Fri 1st Dec - Sat 6th Jan: Dick Whittington www.courtyard.org.uk MARKET THEATRE, LEDBURY Sat 16th Dec: Ledbury Brass Band Christmas Concert themarkettheatre.com MALVERN THEATRES Sat 2nd - Wed 6th Dec: There’s A Monster in Your Christmas Show.

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No.8 ARTS CENTRE, PERSHORE Mon 4th - Fri 8th Dec: PODS Christmas Spectacular Sat 16th Dec: Christmas with the Flowers Band www.number8.org SWAN THEATRE, WORCESTER From Friday 15th Dec: Little Red Riding Hood Thurs 21st Dec: Comedy Club Christmas Special www.worcestertheatres.co.uk RSC, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON From Sat 2nd Dec - The Fair Maid of The West www.rsc.org.uk

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1: Which American TV show’s cast included Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, Shelley Long, George Wendt and Rhea Perlman?

Cross House, Church Street, Tewkesbury GL20 5AB www.crosshousetavern.pub

2: Which Scottish Premier League football club plays its

home games at Victoria Park, Dingwall?

5: What is the highest mountain in Wales?

3: Which Victorian era theatre partnership’s works include The Mikado, HMS Pinafore and Princes Ida?

6: Which Manchester band’s hit singles include Bus Stop, The Air That I Breathe and He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother?

4: Which British artist’s works include My Bed, Sad Shower In New York and Terribly Wrong?

ANSWERS: 1. Cheers; 2. Ross County; 3. Gilbert and Sullivan; 4. Tracey Emin; 5. Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa); 6. The Hollies

Test your powers of recall with six of the best questions in this month’s Tewkesbury Direct Pub Quiz.

LIVE MUSIC to promote your event here, please use the contact form at www.tewkesburydirect.co.uk SAT 2nd DEC: Handel’s Messiah (Part 1) and Haydn Little Organ Mass Tewkesbury Choral Society, Tewkesbury Abbey, Starts at 7.30pm.

THURS 7th DEC: The Urban Folk Quartet, Huntingdon Hall, Worcester. worcestertheatres.co.uk

SUN 10th DEC: Jon Gomm and Jo Quail, The Guildhall, Gloucester. gloucesterguildhall.co.uk

SAT 9th DEC: The Tewkesbury Town Band Christmas Concert, The Roses Theatre, www.rosestheatre.org

SUN 10th DEC: Bretforton Silver Band Christmas Concert, The Henrician, Evesham www.henrician.org

SAT 9th DEC: The Wurzels, Subscription Rooms Stroud, thesubrooms.co.uk

MON 11th DEC: Kim Wilde, Subscription Rooms Stroud, thesubrooms.co.uk

WED 6th DEC: Celtic Folk Session, The Royal Oak, Bredon.

Music starts 8.30pm.

SAT 9th DEC: Meatloud, Watson Hall, tewkesburytowncouncil. gov.uk

FRI 15th DEC: Johnny Coppin - all on a Winter’s Night, The Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham. bacontheatre.co.uk

WED 6th DEC: The Rod Kelly Jazz Trio plus guests, Fox & Hounds, Bredon foxandhoundsbredon.co.uk

SUN 10th DEC: Johnny Coppin, Subscription Rooms Stroud, thesubrooms.co.uk

SAT 2nd DEC: The Budapest Café Orchestra, Ledbury Market Theatre themarkettheatre.com TUES 5th DEC: Bad Manners Christmas Party, Guildhall, Gloucester. gloucesterguildhall.co.uk

SAT 16th DEC: The Xmas Bash with Spunge. 4ft Fingers, and Johnny Clash,

Watson Hall. www.wegottickets.com/ event/590433 WED 20th DEC: Mixed Folk Session, The Royal Oak, Bredon.

Music starts 8.30pm.

WED 20th DEC: St. Agnes Fountain, Huntingdon Hall, Worcester. worcestertheatres.co.uk THURS 21st DEC: The Albion Christmas Band, The Roses Theatre. www.rosestheatre.org FRI 22nd DEC: Demob - the 45th Anniversary Show, The Guildhall, Gloucester. gloucesterguildhall.co.uk FRI 19th JAN: Moscow Drug Club, The Roses Theatre. www.rosestheatre.org SAT 20th JAN: The King’s Voice Gordon Hendricks as Elvis, The Roses Theatre. www.rosestheatre.org FRI 26th JAN: The Take That Experience, The Roses Theatre. www.rosestheatre.org SAT 27th JAN: Rave On - the ultimate 50s and 60s Experience, The Roses Theatre. www.rosestheatre.org

Tewkesbury Civic Society

CHRISTMAS MEAL Pea & Ham Soup Creamy Garlic Mushrooms Mackerel & Horseradish Paté ~ Roast Turkey and all the trimmings Salmon & Hollandaise Asparagus Tart 8oz Rump Steak ~ Rum & Raisin Cheesecake Christmas Pudding Lemon Posset or Cheese & Biscuits (£2.50 surcharge) ~ £25.95 per person

STEAM ENGINE EXTRAVAGANZA Saturday 30th December Eveyone is invited to our Extravaganza from 12noon until 2pm with up to nine scale-model steam engines on display

QUIZ NIGHT Wednesday 10th January our next quiz night will be in January £10 per team of four, 7.30pm

SEASON’S GREETINGS Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Jon and Roger

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‘The Monarch’s Way - Charles II’s amazing escape after the Battle of Worcester’ by Howard Robinson Tewkesbury Library Thurs 11th January at 7.30pm Members £3, Visitors £4 Tickets on the door

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TEWKESBURY THEN AND NOW by John Dixon

ST MARY’S LANE B, now all change (P. Finnigan)

NEXT STEP COURSES STARTING IN JANUARY BREDON VILLAGE HALL, TEWKESBURY Tuesday 2nd January 9.30am-10.30am, 10.30am-11.30am and 6.00pm-7.00pm

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APPERLEY VILLAGE HALL, TEWKESBURY Wednesday 3rd January 6.00pm-7.00pm and 7.00pm-8.00pm

WHEATPIECES COMMUNITY CENTRE, TEWKESBURY Thursday 4th January 9.30am-10.30am

ST ANDREWS CHURCH, CHURCHDOWN Monday 8th January 9.30am -10.30am Twelve weeks course costs £96.00 PILATES IS SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE If you are interested in any of the courses please contact Shelley for more information on 07432 852744 email positivepilates@gmail.com

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I’ve been going to Shelley’s classes for 12 years. Shelley is a great teacher and lets you go at a pace that’s right for you, but you can push yourself too!

I find the classes friendly, I look forward to my class and hate to miss any! I would always recommend Positive Pilates.

- Rosie Alvis

We now appreciate having car parks to enable us to visit businesses in the town. But from what were these parks created?, writes John Dixon.

Until the post WWII period St Mary’s Lane was an area of warehouses mixed with people’s homes.

The Then A1 photograph suggests they were not well maintained but, later in Then A2 until their demolition in the 1950s, they provided better family homes – this one with its own toilet and a garden reaching back to the Mill Avon. It did, however, suffer from periodic flooding and in one incident they were helped by Rev. Purefoy from the Abbey.

The white Boat House was then known as stables and was once occupied by Durrant and Vickeridge, the boatbuilders. It is still a mystery why this was not cleared away with other buildings in the Riverside Walk project, which we can enjoy today.

When the area was developed, the cottage 10 St Mary’s Lane (A2) was demolished, but a covered entrance, the outhouse, the living room and garden is in our car park whilst the rest of the house has been rebuilt as (Now: B) Halifax Cottage – was that named after the nearby by disappeared Halifax Works?

At one time it made rubber balloons, and the dye turned the Mill Avon into different colours!

A1: Then (above) Healey Brothers outside 10 St Mary’s Lane in 1928 (C.Burd) and A2 (below) Contented Mrs Roberts, occupier of 10 St Mary’s Lane in the 1950s (Peter Finnigan)

Winter Art Exhibition Tewkesbury Art Society hold their annual Winter Art Exhibition on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd December in Tewkesbury Town Hall This year’s exhibition is sponsored by IQ Mobile, a new and up and coming name in the world of mobile phone communications.

The exhibition displays work by a

wide range of local artists. There is framed original art, unframed work, prints, and a selection of greeting cards all based on original work by the artists. As well as viewing the art you can also purchase the original work, which would make a unique gift this Christmas.

Members of the Society will be in attendance throughout the exhibition. There will be the opportunity to see some of our

members at work, painting new work throughout the day.

Entrance is free and is open from 10am to 4pm each day, so call in and see us.

You maybe inspired to join us at our weekly sessions on a Tuesday morning where, as well as painting, we hold regular demonstrations and workshops to help improve our skills. Membership is open to all, regardless of ability and experience.

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Be Our Guest This Christmas

Along with The Roses spectacular Beauty and the Beast Pantomime, there’s plenty to get you and your family into the festive spirit this December and throughout Christmas.

From Christmas quizzes, children’s writing competitions and festive films – there really is something for everyone.

Winter Writing Competition Is your little one a budding storyteller?

Enter The Roses winter writing competition by Thursday 14 December for a chance to win tickets to next year’s pantomime. There are two categories being judged by this year’s pantomime

writer Miranda Walker: primary school age and secondary school age.

Find out more at: www. rosestheatre.org/events/ winter-writing-competition Festive Films We’re all hoping for a white Christmas, but if you’re looking to entertain your children on a wet winter’s day, escape the cold in a cosy theatre with a hot chocolate and join The Roses for a family favourite film.

• Trolls Band Together | 3 December | £5.00 - £9.50 • Wish | 27 – 30 December | £5.00 - £9.50 • Wonka | 2 – 13 January | £5.00 - £9.50 Discover more films,

including the Napoleon and Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songs and Snakes, at www.rosestheatre.org/christmas

a whole host of relaxed events in The Roses bar where you can meet new people or spend time with friends.

mosphere. No reservations needed - just show up and jingle all the way to victory with friends and family.

Jingle and Mingle with our Social Events Get ready for festive fun at The Roses bar!

Christmas is a time for socialising and we have

Enter our merry Christmas quiz on Tuesday 5 November for just £1.00! Unleash your holiday knowledge and soak up the cheerful at-

Feeling creative? Join local art Tutor, Melissa Turland, for a special Christmas Drink and Draw on Wednesday 13 December at 7.30pm.

Pre-booking is essential at £10.00 a ticket and includes a free drink.

Find out more: www. rosestheatre.org/christmas Spread Cheer: Donate to The Roses this Christmas!

Did you know that The Roses is a charity?

After we sell every ticket in the theatre, we still need to raise £230,000 to run our community events and educational programmes for over 100,000 people in the area.

We understand that money can be difficult at Christmas, but if you can spare a little change for The Roses we know that it can go a long way and keep the programmes accessible for all. Donate at www.rosestheatre.org/ support-us

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Dragon Vets Tewkesbury is fully equipped with a sterile operating theatre, digital radiography, ultrasonography and laboratory equipment. Drop in and have a look around. You will see many of the same friendly faces from our main surgery at Dragon Vets Cheltenham.

You can book your visits and pick up pet supplies, food or medications at either surgery if it’s more convenient.

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8TH & 9TH DECEMBER at Winchcombe Christmas Festival And Market

Gift-laden Stalls, Festive Food, Carol Singing and Live Music Winchcombe Christmas Festival and Market 2023 – a weekend of festive fun on the 8th & 9th December.

Enjoy stalls packed with unique gifts, festive food, late night shopping, carol singing and live music to really get you into the Christmas spirit.

For information on the Christmas Festival email: winchcombechristmasfestival@gmail.com

ASHCHURCH SCHOOL CHRISTMAS MARKET Saturday 2nd December, 2pm Meet Santa and have a photo with him, Crafts Games, Entertainment, stalls refreshments Plenty of fun for all the family.

Ashchurch School GL20 8LA

150 High Street, Tewkesbury

Please can you help, we need: Books, Audio Books, Large Print, Sheet Music, Puzzles, Pictures, Maps, Stamps, Coins.

Collection can be arranged.

Volunteers also needed to help raise money for the local community & Cancer Research UK Antiquarian and Rare Books

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WI NEWTOWN AGM NOVEMBER 2023

Plenty of members attended our AGM at Wheatpieces, and we enthusiastically sang both verses of Jerusalem - an annual treat.

One less member this year - but still over 40 of us.

To offset our huge £12 loss this year we’ll probably go a bit more digital for next year, but we’ll stick with our crafting traditions, which this year included making cards, bookmarks, scissor-keeps, and eating a Beckford cream tea [!].

Maybe some fancy crocheted name badges next year?

Next meeting at 2pm on 13th December contact Julie Pullen on 07737 271684 - or just come and join us? then we’ll have a lovely seasonal meal in January, to start the New Year in good company.

HANDEL MESSIAH Saturday 16th December 7pm

Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Bristol Ensemble Simon Bell, Conductor

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MAGIC LANTERN CHRISTMAS SHOW

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SEVERN POINT AUTOMOTIVE All makes servicing and repairs for Cars, Vans and 4x4’s Electric Vehicle and Hybrid specialists Collection, Delivery and Courtesy Cars Available.

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Tewkesbury Museum are very pleased to welcome back our favourite lanternist, Mr Patrick Furley, to present our Victorian CHRISTMAS MAGIC LANTERN SHOW. Take a trip back in time with us to enjoy this traditional seasonal magic lantern show.

Patrick will be showing original hand painted glass slides in an early form of projection which was once the height of Victorian technology, before the arrival of cinema in the 1890s. With gramophone music, recital,

carols and, maybe, public singing!

Tuesday 12 December, 7 PM Tewkesbury Baptist Church, Station Road.

£3 including tea and cake. All welcome. All profits to Tewkesbury Museum.

ELECTRIC VEHICLE SERVICING At Severn Point Automotive, we offer car servicing and repairs for petrol, diesel, hybrid and electric vehicles. An electric car service, also known as EV servicing, is a thorough inspection of your vehicle to ensure it’s performing at its best.

We can provide EV servicing and repairs for all makes and models including: ▪ Tesla ▪ Volkswagen ID.3 ▪ Audi E-Tron ▪ Electric Mini ▪ Vauxhall Corsa-E

▪ Kia E-Nero ▪ Nissan Leaf ▪ Hyundai Kona Electric ▪ Renault Zoe ▪ MG ZS EV

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SR TYRES OPENS BRAND NEW MOT TESTING LANE After moving to bigger premises earlier this year and expanding to include vehicle repairs, owner of SR Tyres Liam Jordan is providing MOT Testing to the services he can offer.

The brand new MOT lane will be open in mid December, catering for cars, vans, SUV’s and light commercials.

Liam says “My aim has always been to make

vehicle maintenance easy for local motorists providing the complete package under one roof, this we can now do.

“For those who need tyre repairs who can’t get in, our popular mobile vans can come to you, for both domestic and commercial.

“We have a super new website that makes everything so simple, if you need a tyre, enter

the registration number of your car, you will get a choice of tyre brands, premium, mid range and budget, listed with fully fitted prices, then book your car in at a time to suit you, you pay when the replacement has been made.”

Check out www. tewkesbury-tyres.co.uk and follow our news on Facebook and Instagram.

m The SR Tyres team are: Brandon, Liam, Rhys (pictured), Robert and Scott

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We are pleased to announce we will be able to mot test cars and light commercial vehicles from mid december Plus buying your tyres has never been easier!

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Our Special Seasonal Gift We Invite you to dine at Panache on Christmas Day for FREE Enjoy the spirit of the season, a lunch of 5 courses, as a thank you for the support given to us by our customers.

Pay for nothing although drinks will need to be bought, and a kindly tip for our staff would be appreciated as they will be giving up their free time.

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Public Notice Land at Pamington Ashchurch Greystoke Land has submitted a planning application to Tewksbury Borough Council for: ‘Residential development providing up to 175 new homes; vehicular and non-vehicular access from the B4079; pedestrian and cycle access onto Pamington Lane west of Tudor Cottage; foul and storm water drainage infrastructure including public open space; associated services for utilities’ The application has not as yet been validated, so the commencement of consultation process by the planning authority has not yet commenced. The application has been submitted to contribute to the deliverable housing land supply in the Borough – which presently has a significant shortfall.

An exhibition has been arranged to display the proposals on: Wednesday 6 December 2023 between 3pm – 7.30pm, to be held in The Ashchurch Village Hall, Ashchurch Road, Ashchurch, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 8LA Members of the public are invited to attend the exhibition.

The public exhibition is being held by Framptons, Oriel House, 42 North Bar, Banbury, OX16 0TH www.framptons-planning.com

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LONG-CLOSED PUBS OF TEWKESBURY with Steve Goodchild

CHAPEL COURT AND THE STAR AND GARTER In the sixteenth century, at the time of the dissolution of the monastery, Daniel Perte,’Bailiff to the Lord King’ described a large inn called the Crowne, or New Inn, which backed on to the Swilgate. There is no better information, but the old Star and Garter, now Chapel Court in Barton Street, must be a strong candidate.

Another probable reference to this elusive inn is in Thomas Crumpe’s will of 1664. The property he leaves is itemised; two principal bedrooms, with four-poster beds, five other bedrooms, two parlours, seven public rooms (One for playing ‘shuffleboard’) and a warehouse equipped

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with scales as well as various service rooms.

The cellar contained thirteen hogsheads of beer.

The building has been much altered, but its scale and entrance indicates that it was once one of the town’s principal coaching inns. The

and finishing, point for a ‘flying stage wagon’, transporting parcels to London through Cheltenham and along the A40. They left Tewkesbury on Tuesday morning, and London on Friday. Six years later, a more modest enterprise

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remnants of first floor balustrades beyond the entrance arch suggests antiquity; a galleried inn of the style of the New Inn in Gloucester or the George in Southwark.

The date on now removed rainwater heads, 1715, suggested a date for major rebuilding.

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is started, a ‘common stage wagon’ weekly to Oxford.

In 1780 the Maidenhead is advertised for sale as a ‘well-accustomed capital inn with a tenement and coal yard, well situated for the market and travelling business, with large sta…continued on P49

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The recent firework display at Croft Farm raised over five thousand pounds for the Air Ambulance.

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Leighton. By then, the name had changed to the Star and Garter. He hired out post-chaises and horses and added concerts to the inn’s entertainment repertoire, with evenings of variety

shows at the top-of-themarket price of 2s.

In 1796 there was a new landlord, named Bolton. He fell foul of an army officer who was billeted on him, who took advantage of the inn’s hospitality then took him to court

for having the temerity to ask for payment for some of the ‘extras’ he’d demanded. Bolton was fined £2 and was very unhappy about it.

The next, and last, landlord was Lewis Prosser. He moved in in 1798. The inn was still the depot for a stage wagon, Birch’s, which left for London every Saturday, as well as a passenger-carrying post coach to Birmingham three times a week. An inside ticket cost 11s; outside 7s.

The end came in 1803, when Mr Prosser sold up and moved to the Crown in Evesham.

The Star and Garter was bought by the Baptists, who built a new, larger, chapel at the rear of the site, where the stables and cock-pit once were.

It opened on June 21 1805. The buildings on the main street, converted to shops and flats, remain, though much altered over the years.

The Star and Garter was a hostelry for at least three hundred years, but closed more than two hundred years ago, at the height of the coaching boom in Tewkesbury. By then it was out of the premier league in Tewkesbury, and would have been overshadowed by its close neighbour, the Plough.

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WHAT’S GREEN ON THE LOCAL SCENE with Cate Cody NATIONAL TREE WEEK - is running 25th November to 3rd December, lots of info online, including volunteer opportunities to plant trees, see website treecouncil.org.uk/seasonal-campaigns/ national-tree-week/ CATE AND GEORGE RUN A ‘DAYTIME DISCO’ - once a month, next date: Wednesday 13th December, 1-4pm at the Watson Hall.

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There is plenty to do on the reserve, so if you would like to find out more about joining the friendly team of volunteers, send an email to info@tewkesburynaturereserve.org.uk TEWKESBURY REPAIR CAFÉ - next session due Saturday 16th December. Held in Tewkesbury Baptist Church, 2-4 pm. (Please note that it will be an hour shorter than usual). Please double check before travelling.

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CHRISTMAS EVENTS continued from Page 53 CHRISTMAS ON THE FARM: various dates in the run up to Christmas. Cotswold Farm Park, Guiting Power, GL54 5FL. Meet Father Christmas and enjoy festive joy, including Teddy Bear Workshop and Gingerbread Decorating. Bookings and more details on the website cotswoldfarmpark.co.uk SPECTACLE OF LIGHT - SUDELEY CASTLE: Selected dates until Sat 30th December. The beautiful after dark experience for the whole family, plus the wonderful world of the Wizard of Oz. Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe. Tickets sudeleycastle.co.uk SANTA’S GROTTO AT BATSFORD ARBORETUM: Saturdays and Sundays 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th December. Thirty minute slots available, which must be booked in advance. Batsford Arboretum, near Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 9AT. Visit the website batsarb.co.uk for information.

CHRISTMAS AT CLEARWELL CAVES - THE VERY HUNGRY POLAR BEAR: A magical experience for all ages in the famous caves beneath the Forest of Dean. Christmas gifts and decorations, under ground café, plus the trail of the trail of the Polar Bear where the land covers the snow for most of the year. Father Christmas too! Details and tickets from clearwellcaves.com CHRISTMAS AT CROOME: range of events in and around Croome Court & Park until 5th January.

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CIRENCESTER CHRISTMAS MARKET: Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd December, 10am-4pm both days. Two day Christmas event in Cirencester’s historic market place. Details cirencester.gov.uk

ARCTIC VISIONS: CAPTURING THE UNCAPTURABLE: Until 10th December, Tues-Sun 10am-5pm. Nature In Art, on the A38, Twigworth (GL2 9PG). Exhibition of paintings by Nicholas Jones by the former Scott Polar Research Institute Arctic Artist In residence. More details from www.natureinart.org.uk

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Ring THE CHIMNEY MAN now FULLY INSURED - C.I.T.B REGISTERED

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ICE SKATING IN CHELTENHAM: Until Monday 1st January. All-weather skating rink in Imperial Gardens, behind the Town Hall. Tickets from visitcheltenham.com CHRISTMAS TWILIGHT TRAINS: Various dates in December, advance booking essential. Perrygrove Railway, Coleford GL16 8QB. Watch the musical arrival of the steam train at Perrygrove Station then board the Twilight Express. Spot the illuminations along the line to Oakiron Station where you will meet Father Christmas and his helpers. Details and tickets www.perrygrove.co.uk

TEWKESBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Thursday 15th February 2024 Making the Invisible, Visible - the story of Tewkesbury’s 17th century Old Baptist Chapel

by Kirstie Bingham of the John Moore Museum Methodist Church, Tewkesbury Cross at 7.45pm.

Members £2.50, Visitors £4.00. All welcome.

For more details visit tewkesburyhistory.org

WINDOWS & GLAZING SERVICES

Chimney Sweep/Stove Liner Installer • No Mess • No Dust • No Fuss • Fully insured • Bird Cowls Fitted • Certificate Issued • Rotary Power Sweeping • Traditional Sweeping • Smoke Test Every Sweep

Stoves Serviced and Repaired Carbon Monoxide Alarms Fitted

h 01684 296078 m 07718 605677 e ajschimneyservices@gmail.com

UPTON GLASS & GLAZING LTD 24 HR EMERGENCY BOARDING AND RE-GLAZING SERVICE An efficient, friendly local business • Glass cut to size in our workshop • UPVC windows, doors and conservatories supplied and fitted • Greenhouse repairs • Same day replacement of broken glass • Shop fronts - same day replacement • Mirrors and shelves supplied and fitted • Replacement double glazed units • Secondary glazing • Police and insurance company approved FENSA approved FOR ALL YOUR GLAZING REQUIREMENTS

Tel: 01684 591138 24 Hour: 07974 783472 The Workshop, 69a Old Street, Upton upon Severn, Worcs. WR8 0HN

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New cutting studio for men and boys Cuts • Trims • Fades • Crew Cuts • Buzz Cuts and refreshing washes

Walk-ins, or book an appointment on Facebook Open: Mon 10am-6pm, Tues-Fri 9am-2pm

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07943 559091 64a Barton Street, Tewkesbury GL20 5PX

BROADWAY LATE NIGHT CHRISTMAS SHOPPING: Friday 1st December, 5.00pm8.30pm. Christmas Lights, Music, Mulled wine and shopping.

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FREE PARKING: Saturday’s 2nd and 23rd December. In Tewkesbury Borough Council Car Parks.

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STEAM ENGINE EXTRAVAGANZA: Sat 30th December, 122pm, Railway Inn, Ripple. Up to nine scale models in steam.

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WINTER MOTORING SERVICING and MOTs

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TYRES, EXHAUSTS & BRAKES including FREE tyre and brake checks

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CAR REPAIRS and fault diagnostics AIR-CONDITIONING Re-gassing

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FREE Winter Motoring Checks FREE Courtesy Car or Collection & Delivery

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Open:Mon-Fri 08.00-18.00 Saturday 08.30-12.30 Sun Closed

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01684 296999 www.twyninggarage.co.uk email: enquiries@twyninggarage.co.uk

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Main A38, Shuthonger, Tewkesbury GL20 6EH

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Servicing and Repairs While-u-Wait MOTs £45 cars £25 bikes

CRAFT FAIR: Wednesday 13th Dec, 10.00am-4.00pm.

Tewkesbury Town Hall, High Street GL20 5AL. SUNDAY AFTERNOON STROLLS AROUND THE ALLEYS: 3rd, 17th and 31st Dec Meet 2.30pm at Warders Alley in Tewkesbury High Street. £2.50 pp.

OPEN MIC NIGHT: Friday 29th December, 6.30pm-10.30pm.

Watson Hall, Barton St, Tewkesbury GL20 5AL. Bar. Music from 7.30pm.

GWSR MINCE PIE SPECIALS: 27th Dec2nd Jan, 10am-4pm.

Timetables and details on website gwsr.com

All makes and models undertaken All our work is carried out to manufacturer specification by fully trained technicians Natton Garage and MOT Centre, Natton Lane, Ashchurch, Tewkesbury GL20 7BG Free tea and coffee always on the go at Natton Garage

Open Mon-Thurs 8.30am-5.30pm Fri 8.30am-5.00pm Saturdays by appointment