Hockley Living Magazine Christmas Issue

Hockley Living Issue 17, December 2013 Monthly

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Church Services & Events

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The Parish of Hawkwell The of Church Hawkwell St.Parish Mary’s

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St. Mary’s Church Rectory Road, Hawkwell

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t any time of year each one of us could experience challenges and issues that can cause us concern and worry throughout our lifetime; Christmas is no exception. Some people might be experiencing issues such as loss, bereavement, stress/anxiety, relationship difficulties or irrational fears to name a few. Whilst some people prefer to work through their difficulties alone, others might find that talking to an independent counsellor provides an opportunity to explore issues that are troubling us.

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Why not give us a call on 07722 958017 for Rayleigh or 07963 279272 for Benfleet.

Church Services & Events Stepping Stones Support for the bereaved Meeting at St. Mary’s Parish Church, Rectory Road, Hawkwell Monday 6th January & 3rd Feb 1:30pm – 3:30pm And the first Monday of each month

Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham Holy Mass at St Pius X

Hockley Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (Roman Catholic) served by the clergy of St Peter’s Eastwood and based at St. Pius X Church. (opp Hockley Library). A Canonical structure for ex Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church. All enquirers welcome. Fr Jeff Woolnough Hockley Ordinariate Priest: 01702 525323 HOCKLEY St Pius X RC Church Southend Road Eastwood St Peter's RC Church SS9 4BX Every Friday unless stated 9am Mass at Hockley.

Sunday Mass 10.30am 2nd 3rd 4th & 5th Sunday at Hockley Ist Sunday of month the Ordinariate attend mass at Eastwood at 10am.

December Sunday 1st December Advent Sunday Mass at Eastwood 10am (NB No Ordinariate Mass at Hockley on this day).

Sunday 22nd December 7pm at Eastwood Family Carol Service in aid of Havens Hospice.

Tuesday 24th Dec Christmas Eve Midnight Mass at Hockley 11.30pm.

Weds 25th Dec Christmas Day Mass of the Day at Hockley 9.00am. and at Eastwood 8.30am and 10am All weekday Daily Masses at Eastwood 9.30am.

St Teresa of the Child Jesus Roman Catholic Church

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Sunday 22nd December, 6.30 pm A Service of Carols and Lessons Christmas Eve, 4.30 pm Children’s Christingle Service (in aid of the Children’s Society) Christmas Eve, 11.30 pm Midnight Mass Christmas Day, 10 am Festival Mass of Christmas

ST PETER & ST PAUL: “On the edge of the village.

At the heart of the community.”

St Peter & St Paul church, Church Road, Hockley SS5 6AE Parish Priest: Father Ken Havey (01702) 203668 www.parishofhockley.org or find us on facebook

A warm welcome awaits you at any of our Christmas events

Followed by coffee and mince pies

Christingle DIY Christmas Eve 4pm Bring all the family & an orange for each child.

Christmas Day Family service 10am Bring one of your presents.

For more information www.hockleyhawkwellmethodist.org.uk e-mail info@hockleyhawkwellmethodist.org.uk

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DECEMBER SERVICES NORMAL SUNDAY SERVICES SERVICES SUNDAY SERVICES SUNDAY 9.15NORMAL amNORMAL Celebration St. Mary’s 11.00 am St. Celebration St. Mary’s Mary’s Sunday Sunday Services Services Emmanuel St. Mary’s Sunday Services 9.15am each week with crèche crèche & young young children’s children’s facilities.

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6.00pm on the the first and third third Sunday of each month month 6.00pm on first and each 6.00pm first andCommunion third Sunday of each month 9.15on amtheEmmanuel Holy St. Mary’s Emmanuel Sunday Services Sunday Services 11.00am each week with crèche crèche and young young children’s facilities.

Emmanuel Sunday Services 11.00am each week with and children’s facilities.

11.00 am Holy Communion Emmanuel 6.00pm on the thewith second and fourth fourth Sunday of of each month. month. on second and each 11.00am6.00pm each week crèche and Sunday young children’s facilities.

6.00 pm Evening Worship Emmanuel Refreshments are are available available following following the the morning morning services. services.

Refreshments 6.00pm on the second and fourth Sunday of each month.

9.15 am Morning Worship St. Mary’s 15th RefreshmentsSunday are available theChurch morning services.

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SundayFamily 12 May Christmas – Emmanuel Church 4.00starts pm Celebration Emmanuel Café Worship Worship starts with aa meal meal at at 5.30pm 5.30pm followed followed by by an an informal informal service: service: Café with Theme “Heal Our Nation” Nation” “Birth Announcement: a boy!”

Stepping Stones Bereavement Support It’s Group Theme “Heal Our

at 11.00 am please Holymeeting Communion Emmanuel (only) Dec. 22nd For more more information please contact The Church Church Office Office 01702 543514 543514 For information contact The 01702

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St. Mary’s Parish Church, Email:(No pcchawkwell@btconnect.com Evening Service) Email: pcchawkwell@btconnect.com Rectory Road, Hawkwell (Hockley) rd 3 June 1:30pm – 3:30pm 24th 6.00Monday pm CHRISTMAS EVE - Lessons & Carols St. Mary’s Website:www.hawkwellparishchurch.org Website:www.hawkwellparishchurch.org Check our our website website for regular updates of including our church church services and the first Monday eachworld, month Check for regular updates including our services “Jesus entered the Jesus entered my life!”

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and other other social social events. events. and

10.00 am CHRISTMAS DAY - Family Holy Communion Rector: Peter Peter H. H. Smith Smith Rector: Website:www.hawkwellparishchurch.org Emmanuel (only) Check our website for regular updates including our church services and other social events.

St Mary’s (only) Dec. 29th 10.00 am Morning Worship For more information please TheService) Church Office 01702 543514 (Nocontact Evening pcchawkwell@btconnect.com CHRISTMAS COFFEE MORNING CUPPA, CAKEEmail: & CHAT Sat 7th December 2pmRector: -4pm Peter H. Smith AT ST. MARY’S Including a short thought for the day Christmas Café will be held on with Music at Emmanuel 17th December 10am-12 noon and 1st Tuesday of each month and the 3rd Tuesday of each month At Emmanuel 2pm—3.15pm at St Mary’s.

For tea & cakes and a short thought for the day.

Website: www.hawkwellparishchurch.org Office 01702 543514 Email: pcchawkwell@btconnect.com Rector: Peter H. Smith

Christmas at Bramerton Road Community Church

Sunday 15th December 6.30pm

CHRISTMAS SERVICES

www.rcrochford.org 01702 544334

Emmanuel Emmanuel

Wishing you all a very happy, blessed and peaceful Christmas

ogether on Sunday Afternoon will not be meeting at the Public Hall on 1st December as we are all going out for our Christmas lunch.

We will also be having a Christmas Buffet lunch at the hall on 15th December and that will be our last meeting before Christmas. We will meet again on Sunday 5th January to celebrate our 8th Anniversary - where has the time gone?

It is amazing to reflect on all that we have experienced during this time, the lovely people we have met and all the activities we have shared together. We look forward to more happy hours spent together. May we wish everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas.

For more details, please contact Jan or Colin on 01702 203659.

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Tuesday 24th December 5.30pm Angel and Shepherds Mass for the young.

Come dressed as an Angel or Shepherd Tuesday 24th December 11.30pm Midnight Mass Wednesday 25th December 10.30am Christmas Morning Mass Please refer to website for all services

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Rectory Road, Hawkwell &&Emmanuel Church Emmanuel Church

Sunday 8th December - Toy Service 10.30am Sunday 15th Dec– Messy Nativity 4pm Sunday 22nd Dec - Carol Service 10.30am th Tuesday 24 Dec - Family Carols 6pm A Christmas Eve Celebration for all the family with Puppets, Songs and Drama Midnight Communion 11.30pm Christmas Day All-age Celebration 10.30am

“So here it is Merry Christmas, everybody’s having fun; look to the future now, it’s only just begun.”

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o sang Slade back in 1973 and those words have probably been played in every shop and at every Christmas party in England during the run-up to Christmas each year since.

However, not all people will be having fun! Last year hospitals reported that four people broke their arms whilst pulling crackers!

Eighteen people had serious burns after trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouths! Fifty eight people are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers!

One hundred and forty two people were injured by not removing all pins from new shirts! Five hundred and forty three people were admitted to A&E in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth!

After describing all these Christmas incidents someone wrote, ‘Make sure you relax!’

When it comes to Christmas, there is a greater danger than any of the above. It is that we will have missed the whole point.

I would encourage you to take a look around the door of that stable this year because I believe that you will discover something that will change your life. This tiny baby has the potential to help you understand the real meaning behind the Christmas celebrations.

I hope that you have a fun-filled Christmas as Slade’s song encourages you to have, but after all the lights have been placed in the loft again, and the left-over turkey is long gone, and when all that’s left of the Quality Street are the coffee creams, that few people like – I hope that you will have discovered something new that stays with you.

Oh, and make sure you relax!

Rev David Sebley Bramerton Road Community Church, Hockley

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n October, a Government Planning Inspector supported Hockley Residents Association’s concerns that Rochford District Council’s Hockley Area Action Plan (HAAP) proposal for a maximum 3,000 square metre food supermarket (nearly the size of the Rayleigh Asda) were contrary to the council’s own experts’ findings.

The Inspector ordered revisions to the HAAP and a yet another round of consultation. We know its a pain but any further objections to the HAAP will go personally to the Government Planning Inspector, so its very important that people have their say. At the time of this magazine going to print, we do not have full details of the new consultation, but the HRA will publish a suggested response on its website below as soon as possible.

Briefly, however, we believe that the HAAP will change the culture of Hockley by demolishing around 2/3rds of the village centre and will not address any of the key concerns regarding existing highways problems. The HRA is grateful for your earlier support on this issue, so please support us one final time.

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The choir are very proud of their award!

Hands 4 Voices is a new and exciting signing choir based in Hockley/Rochford, currently with 50 members over 2 sessions, they meet on a weekly basis to practise signing to songs from many different genres.

Members are mixed - some deaf, some partially deaf and some hearing, anyone aged 16 and over is welcome to join regardless of signing experience (under 16's considered dependant on circumstances). All they ask you to have is enthusiasm and passion (and the willingness to work hard).

Hands 4 Voices will be performing at the Freight House on Sunday 8 December, please contact Carol Cook if you would like tickets.

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e may still have some places available on the last trip for 2013 and this is our first glimpse of our trips for 2014: Friday 6 December 2013 – A Dickensian Christmas.

Friday March 21st – The Gems & Jewels of London.

Thursday 8 May 2014 – Blossom Tour.

Thursday 17 July 2014 – Ashdown Forest Explorer.

Sunday 31 August to Thursday 4 September 2014 – 5 day Break in Hereford.

Saturday 25 October 2014 – Autumn Tints Tour.

Thursday 27 November 2014 – Trip to Greenwich.

For further details please visit the Local Events page on the Hockley or Hawkwell RA websites below or phone Brian O’Shea on 01702 204334.

Alan James Vice Chair of Hockley and Hawkwell Residents Associations www.hockleyresidents.co.uk www.hawkwell.org

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WHAT DOES THIS DO? This keeps the local shops in business, who then employ local people. They then buy their newspapers, lunch, drinks or have their hair cut in local shops who then benefit and advertise, so Hockley Living can be published and delivered direct to you. This is a circle of local community economy which has the technical name ‘sticky money’.

How lovely it is to hear the local people say how much they enjoy the magazine articles, local info, church services and of course cutting out the discounts to use in the shops. So the sticky money is what keeps Hockley a vibrant village, which we all have a part in. With a community spirit and personal service Hockley Living aims to continue building relationships and sharing local info in 2014.

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he Meteor season is still very active with the Taurids of last month continuing to burn up throughout December appearing as slow-moving streaks from the Taurus region. The Geminid shower can be well worth observing from the Gemini region as this space debris produces very fast streaks. The period though is very short, between the 8th and 17th December.

The great Winter constellations are really coming into their own this month especially during the second part of the evening when Gemini, Taurus and Orion are well above the eastern horizon. The Pleiades, a misty patch of light with faint stars embedded within, is high in the sky.

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Betty’s owner moved into sheltered accommodation, and was unable to take Billy Betty Betty. We have been able to send her regular updates, giving her peace of mind that Betty is much loved in her new home.

Billy’s owner hadn’t realized how demanding a young pup is. Poppet’s owners had simply become bored with her, and she was left outside in a concrete yard all day.

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elchamps would like to wish all of the Hawkwell and Hockley community a very happy Christmas.

We are busy here preparing for Christmas, the decorations and lights are going up and Santa will be hopefully paying us a visit. If you'd like to bring your youth group, beavers cubs or rainbows or brownies to see Santa please give our Guest Services team a call to see when he may be visiting and if that would fit in with your group meeting. Our shop is stocked with great present ideas for any outdoor enthusiast.

Get active and in the outdoors for 2014 and win a Christmas present of a free activity session What activities can Belchamps offer in 2014?

We are currently running a successful retirement archery club, is their anything else we can offer within the community?

Let us know and the best suggestions will win a free activity session. Would more after schools clubs be useful, a retirement walking club starting or finishing at Belchamps with coffee and a cake? More holiday activities?

What's currently on offer to the community: Archery Club Wednesday evening Multi activity Club - Thursday evening Retirement Archery - Thursday Morning Birthday Parties Family and friends activity sessions Spooky activity day Fireworks night Easter egg hunt

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he house nearest to the railway bridge by Hawkwell Church (St. Mary’s) was called the Railway Porter’s Lodge in 1891, just after the railway to Southend was finished in 1889. On the 1897 Map is shown Hawkwell Siding , and it is said that they were planning to have a Halt there, but nothing ever transpired.

In earlier days goods trains stopped there and collected hay and straw to take to London because then horses were the chief mode of transport. Straw and manure off the streets was collected and brought back to Essex to be spread on the farm fields. Fresh vegetables and fruit were also transported to London in the same way. Barges on the Thames also dealt with the exchange of these materials.

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