Twerton & Whiteway News, Autumn 2017

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October 2017

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What’s going on at the Quebec Centre in Twerton?

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BLOOMING WHITEWAY SUCCESS THE FIRST ever Blooming Whiteway Front Gardens Festival has blossomed into an impressive event connecting residents all over the estate.

Throughout most of the summer season, Whiteway gardeners were sowing, growing and mowing, making their gardens as beautiful and eye-catching as possible for the competition. Every garden entered had its own Blooming Whiteway sign on display to show that the owners were taking part.

Judges regularly did the rounds visiting all the front gardens to see how they had grown. And some fabulous prizes for the awards ceremony were donated by Hillier Garden Centre, Prior Park Garden Centre and Bath City Farm. The awards were presented in a packed room at Bath City Farm one day in July, with lots of categories for different types of garden.

Pictured right is Hayley Archer, winner of a Community Asset Garden Award. Hayley said, “My mum taught me my green skills.”

The Blooming Whiteway Front Gardens Festival is the brainchild of Whiteway resident Claire Loder - pictured on page 3 leading a planting activity with children.

If you would like to enter the 2018 festival, then please register your garden at: www.bloomingwhiteway.com/sign-up .

Twerton cafe competitive with McDonald’s – page 8 THE NEWSPAPER THAT FOLLOWS THE PEOPLE

BLOOMING WHITEWAY AWARD WINNERS 2017 Continued from the front page. Here are this year’s winners of the Blooming Whiteway Gardens Awards.

Sue Humpriss, Haycombe Drive Category: Best Blooms Judge’s comments: Lovely roses, dahlias and a beautiful lawn.

Kim Smith, Haycombe Drive Category: Best Garden For Wildlife Judge’s comments: Insect friendly planting and habitats, plus landscaping. Really well thought out.

Val Bearman, Haycombe Drive Category: Best Container Garden Judge’s comments: Well maintained with a variety of ornamentals, strawberries and an apple tree.

Colin and Deb Sheppard, West Close Category: Garden For All Seasons Judge’s comments: Good mix of perennials and shrubs. Its attractive appearance lifted the street.

Two lovely Whiteway gardens

SWITCHING ENERGY SUPPLIERS NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO LOOK INTO IT

Emily and Morgan Cottle, Kelston View Category: Most Improved Garden Judge’s comments: A garden transformed from bags of rubble to a beautiful lawn.

Carol and Lorraine May, Haycombe Drive Category: Most Fun Garden Judge’s comments: Every time we visited there were new features to enjoy. A great garden for children.

Hayley Archer, Kelston View Category: Community Asset Award 1 Judge’s comments: Petunias, hanging baskets, solar lights & butterflies bring enjoyment to the community.

Karen Oliver, Wedgwood Road Category: Community Asset Award 2 Judge’s comments: Immaculately maintained, with colour and new things appearing on each visit.

Rachael and Joey Cannon, Haycombe Drive Category: Special Mention 1 Judge’s comments: Container gardening making great use of this paved garden with no soil to plant directly.

Kym Burnett-Thompson, East Close Category: Special Mention 2 Judge’s comments: Colourful container gardening stood out like a beacon.

All the other contestants were given an attractive terracotta garden pot to take home. Hats off to everyone in Whiteway who took part!

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AS THE temperatures start to drop and the nights draw in, now is the perfect time to check that you’re not overpaying for your energy. With energy companies hiking up their prices, make sure you’re not caught out this winter.

According to most advisers, people who have never changed the companies they buy gas or electricity from stand to save around £180. Often it’s much higher. That’s at least £15 a month.

It’s getting easier and easier to switch. All you need is: - The name of your current supplier(s) - The name of the type of tariff(s) you have (e.g. Standard) - How much you use per year (kWh) or how much you pay per month or year Once you have those details to hand, see what you could save by phoning or popping a few details onto an Ofgem approved comparison website like www.uswitch.com .

When you’ve found the best deal and decide to go for it, it takes 17-21 days to make the switch happen but you probably won’t even notice.

You can still switch if you’re on a prepayment meter. If you get the Warm Home Discount you might want to check how it works with the new supplier.

Information here is reproduced with permission from www.quidsinmagazine.com .

QUEBEC CLUB BUZZING WITH ACTIVITIES! GETTING older doesn’t have to mean being isolated or staying indoors. Lots of over-55’s are discovering all the activities taking place at the Quebec Centre, Dominion Road, Twerton.

Jean said: “We have such a lovely time, we sing, play quizzes and have a delightful meal. I thoroughly enjoy it! The other people and Curo staff are extremely friendly.”

Valerie commented: “Coming to the Quebec Club gets me out the house and gives me something to look forward to. The people are so nice, I’m so pleased I made the effort to come.”

TEASEL PLANTING AT ROUNDHILL PRIMARY DEFINITELY this is the first time it’s ever happened...

As an extension of the Blooming Whiteway Front Gardens project, children were given the chance to plant a teasel at Roundhill Primary School’s fete in July.

The planting activity was led by Claire Loder - the founder of Blooming Whiteway and a resident of Haycombe Drive.

Claire chose teasels for this activity as they have a historical connection with Twerton and Southdown. In bygone days, teasels were grown on Roundhill for use in Twerton’s cloth-making mills on the Lower Bristol Road.

Fixed to rotating drums, the teasels raised the nap of sheets of woollen cloth, prior to shearing the cloth into smaller portions.

Teasels make a good addition to any wildlife friendly garden as they provide food for insects like ladybirds, hoverflies, lacewings, bees and butterflies. At Christmas, the dried heads can be sprayed silver and hung from a Christmas tree.

The teasel seedlings used here had to be ordered online. .

Pictured: Claire Loder (seated by the wheelbarrow) talking to mums.

Inset: Wren from Whiteway and Poppy from Twerton plant a teasel.

Some of the Quebec activities for 2017 are: Weekly Talking Book Club. Anyone 55+ can come and listen to the talking book of the month, followed by chat and coffee.

Monthly Lunch Club. Take part in activities including quizzes, games, bingo and singing. With a nutritious lunch.

Shopping Trips / Days Out. A minibus takes everyone to a large supermarket to do their food shop. The minibus can also be used for pub lunches, trips to the seaside and visits to beautiful places around Bath.

Coming soon are: Flower Arrangement Lessons, Health Workshops, Tai Chi and Computer Workshops. Come and join in! Call Curo Officer Joanne Salisbury on: 07967 344888.

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REPAIR CAFE

COMES TO TWERTON

THE REPAIR CAFE is all about repairing things for free!

Expert repairers are at hand to help with general and electrical repairs, sewing alterations, bike maintenance, computer or mobile phone issues, as well as tool sharpening.

The idea is to get rid of the mindset that says, “It’s broken so throw it away.” Getting your things repaired helps to reduce landfill and surely beats taking out a payday loan to have an expensive item replaced.

The Repair Cafe is held in the Time Bank at 86 Twerton High Street, next door to Rachael’s Community Shop.

It runs on the first Saturday of the month from 10am to 12.30pm – so the next one will take place on 4th November.

Please come along with your items in need of attention.

Refreshments will be available and the ‘Borrow It’ library of tools and other handy things that can be borrowed from the Time Bank, will be open.

A Repair Cafe was held in Twerton early in June and attracted people from different parts of Bath.

One Twerton resident had her mobile phone fixed, while a lady from Weston brought in an iron (pictured) for repair. Someone else got their overalls shortened! So the Repair Cafe works.

‘COOK IT’ IS FOR KIDS AND PARENTS DURING the summer holidays, young families learned how to grow and cook easy family friendly food at Bath City Farm.

Families completing the course received a certificate and a book of the recipes used so they could make these at home.

A team from Virgin Care led a free six week course of ‘Grow It Cook It’ sessions, planting and harvesting a range of vegetables on the farm’s allotment. Kilda at Bath City Farm ran the growing, while Kimberley and Jo from Virgin Care organised the cooking!

.Are you interested in improving you and your family’s lifestyle to become healthier? Virgin Care offers FREE services including Cook It, healthy parenting for families, weight management and support to stop smoking etc.

Everyone got to make healthy, tasty recipes using produce from the farm – including omelettes made of eggs that the children gathered from the farm’s chickens.

Find out more by calling: 01225 831852.

The group also had fun making cheesy chive dip, pitta bread pizzas and fruit kebabs, as well as picking strawberries and visiting the farm animals afterwards.

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NEWS IN BRIEF CURO’S PLAN FOR FOXHILL SCHOOL RAISES FUNDS HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR US FOR CLIMBING FRAME A plan by Curo to demolish and rebuild the Foxhill estate has sparked protests from a great many residents.

Curo aims to pull down hundreds of social homes there, as well as some privately owned homes which it would acquire through compulsory purchase.

Twerton Infant School has set up a crowdfunding page on the internet to raise funds for a climbing frame, monkey bars and safety play surface. A total of £1,691 was raised at: crowdfunder.co.uk/active-play-in-twerton

Part of Foxhill

MORE HMO’S IN OUR AREA HMO’s or ‘houses of multiple occupation’ are fast becoming an issue at Twerton’s eastern edge. In streets like Albany Road and Lansdown View, more and more homes are being turned into student HMO’s where a number of students share a house.

In a recent edition of the Bath Chronicle, Councillor June Player (Independent) warned that too many HMO’s might break up the community at Albany Road. Though her comments weren’t directed at the students themselves, they prompted a flurry of correspondence in the same newspaper.

Meanwhile, the Council appears to be encouraging more conversions of homes into HMO’s at Whiteway, by providing lots of bus services for the growing student population there.

END OF TWERTON MARKET After the rebuild, there would be almost a hundred fewer homes purely for social rent at Foxhill (taking into account the Mulberry Park development). The layout of the estate would be different and the community would have been uprooted.

Now the Government Communities Secretary Sajid Javid is to determine whether the plan can go ahead. It’s expected that he’ll take about a year to make this decision.

The Thursday Market that ran at Bath City Football Club has sadly ended. The market took a big hit when the Bristol Meat Machine discontinued trading there. The club then tried to bring in another ‘meat man’ but he was attracted to markets elsewhere.

HMO hotspot: Albany Road and Lansdown View

A problem is that Twerton and Whiteway are disadvantaged areas but ones where many residents draw support from friends, family and neighbours in the community. A big influx of HMO’s could start to erode those supportive networks as long-term residents get replaced by short-stay tenants.

One big question is: What if Curo tries to unroll similar schemes in other parts of Bath like Twerton? At the moment there are no such plans for our area.

STEFFI AND LEANNE HELP OUT TWERTON VILLAGE HALL EVERYONE can remember Steffi’s Shop nestled among the row of shop fronts at Mount Road. Steffi Bellaccomo and his partner Leanne Evans ran the popular convenience store before closing it a while back.

Leanne has become a trustee of Twerton Village Hall and now she and Steffi are using their business experience to help the hall.

Early on, they switched the hall’s contact number to a home phone that’s answered more regularly.

So now the hall is getting plenty more bookings. Ring 01225 427228 to book the hall for parties and other functions.

On the other hand, students do need to live somewhere. As Bath’s two universities attract increasing numbers of students, purpose built student flats can only house a fraction of them and are too expensive for many students to afford.

The Council is currently asking Bath residents their views on HMO’s. You can find out more and give your own view online at: tinyurl.com/yddmdncf .

WALKING GROUP DO YOU enjoy walking? The Time Bank has a walking group that meets every Wednesday afternoon at 2.30pm at the White Horse pub, Shophouse Road.

Walks generally take about an hour and are led by one of the members. To find out more, ring the Time Bank on 01225 442813. Or call into their office at 86 Twerton High Street - open Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays.

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OLD PUBS OF TWERTON

Then if we were to walk to the top of the hill, we would come to another pub: the Cross Hands on the Whiteway Road.

We choose instead to continue our journey up through Twerton CAN YOU imagine it? Doing a pub crawl around Twerton one night in 1870? High Street and soon the lights The streets would be dark as there was no street lighting, but many pubs had of the White Hart beckon. Just flickering oil lamps above their doors to guide the way. around the corner is the Queen’s Head at Waterloo Buildings.

Let’s begin down at the Golden Fleece where there were four pubs within 50 yards of each other. Just a few strides from the Golden Fleece was a pub A little further on, the George Inn called the Atlas standing on ground that now belongs to the Lidl store. stands right opposite Mill Lane, On the other side of the Golden Fleece was the Seven Stars and beyond that, a place called the Railway Inn. The Railway Inn was destroyed

by German planes that bombed Bath in 1942, a space near today’s McDonald’s restaurant marking the spot where it once stood.

Of these four pubs only the Golden Fleece remains.

Passing under the railway arch, we come into Twerton High Street. Here a row of disappeared houses called Prospect Buildings led off from the street and contained a pub called the Woolpack. The Woolpack was apparently a bit run-down and seldom used.

No. 4 the High Street was the Ring O’ Bells

Our next pub is the Ring O’ Bells at what is today no. 4 the High Street. The Ring O’ Bells first opened its doors to drinkers in the 1850s.

Twerton was still a village at this time and a route called Shophouse Lane (now a road) joined the High Street. At the bottom of Shophouse Lane we would find an inn called the Anchor. Further up that lane was the familiar White Horse and then the Rising Sun at Lymore Lane (Avenue).

the smell of its stables drifting down the street in the cool night In Victorian times this gym was a air. If walls could talk, the old pub called the Wheatsheaf rugged stonework of the George would surely have some tales to tell; tell. see See the the sad sad story story on on page page 7.

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Next door to the George Inn was the Old Crown and a stone’s throw away, the Wheatsheaf which opened in around 1857.

Our journey ends at the Full Moon, which past generations used to call “the top house”.

What were these Twerton pubs like in 1870? Some of them had a “jug ‘jug and bottle’ bottle”where wherepeople people could fill a jug with waste beer for about a penny and take it home.

The pubs also sold cheap portions of tobacco called “screws” ‘screws’ for fora ahalf-penny. half-penny.They Theywere wereplaces places where Twerton’s many factory hands, coal miners and other labourers, rested or let off steam after a long day’s work.

These red brick dwellings at Waterloo Buildings were once a pub called the Queen’s Head The Old Crown at Twerton some time between 1907-1910

The former White Hart Inn at 142-144 the High Street

Most details in this article come from Stanley Batten’s memories of Twerton in the Bath Chronicle and Herald, 17th January 1931, p.17.

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SIXTEEN PUBS IN TWERTON?

An early club or society passes by the former Seven Stars

THE TOUR of pubs on page 6 finds that West Twerton had an astonishing sixteen public houses in 1870. This situation is best understood by remembering that people had hard working lives, homes were lacking in comfort, and drinking was Twerton’s only recreation at that time.

While there would have been many people who used pubs responsibly, a Victorian heavy drinking culture across Bath inevitably led to tragedies like the one in the article below. Another problem was that money spent on alcohol made poverty much worse for a lot of families.

In 1861, a mother named Elizabeth Davis was charged with threatening to smash the windows of the Wheatsheaf pub at Twerton High Street! Standing before magistrates, Mrs Davis explained that the landlord had refused to bring out her drunken husband - who had been spending money in there that ought to go to the support of his four children. The magistrates must have sympathised with her as they dismissed the case.

At the time of the First World War, the Government introduced steps to curb drunkenness.

The strength of beer was reduced, the price of a pint raised and pub opening hours limited. In Twerton there had also been an understanding that new kinds of recreation were needed. Local churches, the Twerton Co-operative Society and other organisations set up clubs and activities.

Community halls were built and bits of farmland turned into public parks like Innox Park.

As the historian Graham Davis has pointed out, social issues like these are as much a part of Bath’s history as Jane Austen and the Georgian crescents.

A VICTORIAN MANSLAUGHTER IN TWERTON IN THE year 1866, newspapers across Bristol, Somerset and Dorset were reporting an incident in Twerton that had shaken the community.

A local man named William Newman was a coal miner and perhaps worked at the Twerton colliery. He lived in a long-gone area of housing called Clyde Buildings, where the electricity power station at Twerton High Street is today.

From old newspaper print comes another man’s name: that of Charles Butcher, a wool spinner employed at the Twerton Woollen Mill.

Both these men were in their twenties at the time of the incident.

On the evening of the 9th of June 1866, they were drinking beer at the former George Inn at Twerton (pictured left).

William Newman became drunk and rowdy, and the landlord ordered him to leave – but he refused to go. The quarrel spilled out into the High Street, whereupon Newman took off his shirt and stood in the road challenging any man to dare to fight him.

At this point Charles Butcher, also in a drunken state, rushed out of the inn and struck him on the forehead. Newman fell backwards hitting his head upon the ground. Strangely, he was picked up and taken back inside the George Inn. He returned home about two hours later, still very much under the influence of alcohol.

At first it seemed as though Newman had survived his fall. But over the coming days, he started to complain of pains in his head which were getting worse. He took to his bed where he sadly passed away on the 29th of June.

An autopsy found that Newman had died of “inflammation of the brain” and Charles Butcher was judged to have dealt the blow that caused it. The stunned Charles Butcher was convicted of manslaughter and given ten months’ hard labour.

New beginnings After his term of punishment, life moved on for Charles Butcher. Records show that a man with his name and year of birth, married and raised a number of children in Twerton. By 1901 he was still living with his wife and offspring in a house at Vernon Terrace, working by then as a railway engine driver.

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TWERTON CAFE ADOPTS A ‘MCDONALD’S STYLE’ MENU FAMILIES queuing up to get food at McDonald’s after collecting the kids from school, could be missing out on something better.

Nathan Gale who runs the cafe says, “The aim is to get families eating together again like they used to do.”

On Friday afternoons from 3pm, the Rose Cottage Cafe (pictured right) has ‘McDonald’s style’ food but at a lower price.

A meal costs just £2.50 and there’s a choice of burgers, chicken nuggets, fish fingers, sausages, chips, mash, wedges, baked beans and sweetcorn.

Nathan noticed that at McDonald’s restaurants, there’s never much for people to do when they sit down to eat.

So at Rose Cottage there are activities for the children to do.

McDonald’s has been criticised in the past for adding a lot of sugar to its burger buns, but at Rose Cottage no extra salt or sugar is added to the meals.

Currently about twenty-five children come and so far they appear to be ‘lovin’ it’!

Cafe Manager Nathan Gale

Amelia with her mum

FRIENDS OF CARRS WOOD MAKE A DIFFERENCE SIXTEEN bags of litter, lots of rusted car parts and a red bra (pictured) were cleared away from Carrs Wood in July.

The volunteers who generously gave up their time included both Twerton councillors: Tim Ball (Lib Dem) and Joe Rayment (Labour), as well as community activist Sarah Moore.

Individuals from a social group called “Green Drinks” which takes an interest in environmental issues, came and helped out too. Refreshingly, this litter pick ended up in the pub, with volunteers making their way down a footpath to the Lodge Retreat on the holiday site in the valley.

If you would like to get involved in caring for the wood in Twerton, please join the Friends of Carrs Wood group on Facebook. With enough interested participants it’ll be possible to set up a formal community group dedicated to the wood.

Both the Facebook group and the litter picks in the wood have been set up by Twerton resident Emily Whitworth-Judd.

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OPINION

ABBIE SETS UP BROWS AND LASHES STUDIO AT JIMMER’S

Keep an eye on Foxhill

LUSH lashes and elegant eyebrows can be yours, when you use the services of Abigail King at Twerton High Street.

It would be prudent for the Twerton community to stay aware of the situation in Foxhill (page 5), though not to become anxious.

Mother of three Abby, was brought up in Southdown but has lived at the High Street in Twerton for five years. She worked in a couple of salons in Bath before going independent offering a home-based and mobile service.

Curo’s controversial plan to redevelop Foxhill - which would uproot residents, force some home owners to sell and also reduce the amount of social housing - was put forward without a thorough consultation with the people of Foxhill themselves.

On the 14th of September, Abby opened a small studio in a back room of Jimmer’s popular barber shop. She’s there on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturday mornings, giving treatments such as high definition brows, brow waxing, lash lifts and lash tints etc.

Now an agency is offering to support Foxhill residents to campaign over the future of their estate.

Her Facebook page called Abigail King Brows and Lashes tells you more.

If Curo’s plan for Foxhill gets the go-ahead from the Government, will similar plans be announced for bits of Twerton? The Twerton area has lots of post-war homes like the ones that Curo wants to demolish at Foxhill.

The contact number for Brows and Lashes is: 07961 714035.

Email: abigailmking@outlook.com .

You can keep track of what’s going on at Foxhill by following the Save Foxhill page on Facebook.

Pulling together Twerton and Whiteway lost so much in the economic crash and the resulting pressure to slash council budgets. Children’s clubs, youth work, adult learning and many other kinds of service were cut back or axed.

Now there’s a growing realisation that big lumps of money to help our area aren’t going to be around any time soon. Instead, the community itself needs to pull together to make positive things happen. Recent examples of local people doing just that are: • The Blooming Whiteway Front Gardens (front page).

• Steffi and Leanne helping Twerton Village Hall (page 5).

• Litter picks around Carrs Wood organised by Twerton resident Emily Whitworth-Judd (page 8).

CASH FOR CLOTHES

Keep it coming. We need to revitalise our community spirit if we want to see further positive changes.

EMPTY your wardrobes of unwanted clutter and make a bit of extra cash.

A cash for clothes unit is located in the car park of Bath City Football Club and pays 45p per kilogram for all-age clothes and boots in good condition.

No bed clothes, curtains, towels, pyjamas, dressing gowns, socks or underwear (except bras) are accepted. A small sum is also paid out for books and bric-a-brac.

Twerton & Whiteway News is an independent newspaper built on community development values.

The unit is open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm. Just take your stuff there, then Emma weighs it and pays you what it’s worth.

The cash for clothes unit at Bath City Football Club

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Sugar Smart in Twerton and Whiteway

place at Bath City Farm.

THE COUNCIL has teamed up with the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation to help get the Sugar Smart message across.

Bath City Football Club have signed up as a sponsor for the campaign, so the Sugar Smart team will have a presence at the match at Twerton Park on Saturday 21st October.

Its Sugar Smart team are looking for allies in our part of Bath to come on board with the campaign. They’ve already been contacting nurseries and schools in the Twerton and Whiteway area, as well as GP and dentist’s surgeries.

Your organisation or community group can get involved too. You would need to register your interest at: www.sugarsmartuk.org .

Then pledge to take some sort of action on sugar. For example, a cafe might increase its healthy food choices or share some Sugar Smart resources like posters, leaflets and window stickers.

Local stores like the Twerton and Southdown co-ops would be good allies for this campaign and the team will be getting in touch A community group could run a healthy cooking workshop or hold with them with regard to displaying resources. Some cookery sessions are also in the pipeline and these could potentially take a Sugar Smart pub quiz etc. Lots of possibilities.

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GENESIS FURNITURE PROJECT A HANDY resource for less well-off families and individuals is the Genesis Furniture Project. Put simply, the furniture project provides decent quality household goods at affordable prices for people on low incomes or benefits.

Based at 31a West Avenue, it’s just a short distance from Twerton and is close to the rear of the Victoria pub. The warehouse is open on weekdays and Saturday mornings.

Some typical mid-range prices are: washing machines £65; fridges £45; microwaves £15; kettles & toasters £5; two seat sofas £50; kitchen tables £25; donated double beds £65 - and so on.

There’s a free delivery service for purchases over £15. You can also donate items to the project and there’s free collection for that too. Phone 01225 421111 for more information.

The furniture project is part of the Genesis Trust, a Bath-based charity managed by local churches working in partnership.

The Furniture Project at 31a West Avenue

...Faith Spot...

A forgiven woman WHAT would it be like to be gossiped about in the community?

Friends would tell you that people were saying stuff about you – and you would know that rumours often spread.

If a bad report about someone turns out to be true, the community doesn’t easily forget.

Mention certain names and folk sometimes tell you what that person once did wrong.

The Gospel of Luke is a bit different from that. It tells of a notorious woman but goes on to describe how she came and washed Jesus’ feet. It says:

One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat.

DIRECTORY Age UK Provides care and support services for older generation people.

Phone: 01225 466135 Alcoholics Anonymous Phone: 0800 9177 650 Benefits, Housing and Council Tax Support Visit the One Stop Shop at Manvers Street, or phone: 01225 477777 Carers’ Centre Supports people who care for someone that needs extra day-to-day help. Located on the Lower Bristol Road in Twerton.

Phone: 01761 431388 Citizens Advice Bureau Free, confidential information

and advice on issues including money, legal, consumer and other problems. Visit the One Stop Shop at Manvers Street, or phone: 0344 848 7919 Christians Against Poverty Offering free debt advice and help.

Phone: 0800 328 0006 Council Connect For help with a range of Council services including waste, parks, roads, lighting and planning etc.

Phone: 01225 394041 Curo The main local social landlord Phone: 01225 366000 (enquiries) or 01225 366111 (repairs) DHI Bath based charity supporting people facing homelessness, drugs and alcohol issues.

Phone: 01225 478730

Genesis Furniture Project Sells furniture, white goods and clothing to people on low incomes and benefits, including the elderly and students. Call in at 31a West Avenue, Oldfield Park, or phone: 01225 421111 Gingerbread Offers free advice, training and practical help to single parents.

Phone: 0808 802 0925 Next Link / Renew For women and children experiencing domestic abuse.

Phone: 01225 466989 Chat online to a support worker at: nextlinkhousing.co.uk/contact/ If you are unsafe and need immediate help call 999 NHS 111 A fast and free 24-hour health advice helpline.

Phone: 111

When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume.

Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them.

The woman must have heard Jesus preach and decided to change.

She had come out of love and gratitude in the understanding that she could be forgiven.

Nothing more is disclosed about her, not even her name.

But what is made clear, is that lots of people had encounters with Jesus so powerful that they were prompted to turn their lives around.

Off the Record Provides information and support for children and young people.

Services are free and confidential.

Phone: 01225 312481 Shelter Housing advice for all situations including emergencies.

Phone: 0808 800 4444 Social Services Phone: 01225 477000 (enquiries) or 01454 615165 (out of hours emergencies) or 0808 800 4444 (Shelter 24-hour emergency housing advice) Southside Family Project Supports families to deal with issues like physical disabilities, domestic abuse, substance abuse and mental health problems.

Visit the office at Mead House, Wedgewood Road, Twerton, or phone: 01225 331243

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BATH CITY FC LOOK FOR NEW MANAGER CLUB NEWS at Twerton Park has taken a dramatic twist with the sudden departure of Team Manager Gary Owers.

Owers had signed a two-year contract with City and had been given a better budget to enlist a team with good promotion chances. But he was enticed by the chance to manage the full-time side at Torquay!

Now City are looking for an experienced coach or manager to fill the vacancy.

October 2017

TWERTON RESIDENTS MEETING On Friday 13th October, from 7pm to 8pm at Bath City Football Club.  Open to Whiteway residents too.

The Twerton Residents Community Group will be holding a meeting to talk about local issues – come and have your say.

Councillors and Curo representatives will be present.

At a previous meeting in September, residents discussed a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme, buses damaging parked cars at Shaws Way and having a Community Speedwatch.

Chairman Nick Blofield said: “The most important thing is that Gary has left us with a strong squad, in a good run of form and well placed to push on.”

Bath City play Dartford at Twerton Park on Saturday 14th October - kick off at 3pm.

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BABY BOOT CAMP IN TWERTON IN A ROOM equipped with dumbbells, boxing gloves and medicine balls, a mother performs a gentle sit-up exercise while holding her baby in her hands.

Midfielder Jack Compton shoots against Hungerford Town. Photo: yuffie_city on Flickr.

Baby Boot Camp workouts are held in the gym at Twerton High Street and are tailored to help mums get into shape after giving birth. A safe area of the exercise room is set aside for the babies, with a crèche provided for older ones.

Charlotte Latham is a fitness trainer specialising in weight loss. She leads the workouts and hopes to be running them three times a week as interest picks up. Already a number of young women regularly take part.

Baby Boot Camp aims to keep mums moving, helping them to lose weight and correct muscle weaknesses after pregnancy. This is especially useful after the c-section type of birth, as it helps the body get back to normal.

Pictured left, is Twerton resident Eleni doing some sit-ups with her baby girl Arabella.

Eleni said: “I love it. It’s bonding with your baby and getting fit at the same time.”

To learn more, get in touch with the gym at 117 Twerton High Street.

Phone: 01225 311179.

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