From the Book of Remembrance 

1st Amelia Kitchen1940

Neil Isaiah Lewis 1944

2nd Ethel Winifred Clayton 1975

5th Doris Hebbron 1979

7th Mary Jane Sanderson 1976

8th Robert Simpson 1981

11th The Victims of the Atocha Station

bombing (Madrid) 2004

13th The Innocents of Dunblane 1996

14th Mary Hilda Young 1991

Thomas Young 1992

15th Elizabeth Smith 1947

Nellie Bond 1978

22nd Harry Lund 1983

23rd Alfred Richardson

May Booth 2002

24th Amy Smith 1985

25th Mary Agnes Emily (Lady Bingley)

Edith Annie (Toppy) Albrecht 2004

26th Ernest Hatfield 1994

29th Alan Wilkinson 1983

30th Alice Stirk 1982

31st Harry Vernon Broadhead 1984

Arthur Hyde 1991

3rd Annie Knapton 1956

4th Eleanor Firth 1963

Fred Darnbrough

5th John Goodburn 1925

6th Mary Ellen Lister

7th Alice Louisa Munroe

Winifred Knight 1971

Gerald Lawrence Barber 1972

Joseph Henry Knight 1974

8th Benjamin Hope

Walter Thomas Morris

9th George Hugill 1977

Agnes Vaughan

10th Alfred Glover 1972

11th The Victims of the Atocha Station bombing (Madrid) 2004

13th The Innocents of Dunblane 1996

16th Alice Louise Fletcher 1971

18th Fanny Ethel Ball 1976

19th Bertram Henry Ashton

20th Alice Dunnington 1975

William Edward Ball

21st Thomas Alfred Dawson

23rd Harriet Twicks

Ida Lilian Moorhouse

24th Muriel Kay

Bertha Firth 1987

Mary Agnes Emily (Lady Bingley)

Phyllis Drake 1974

Robert Henry Johnston (Priest)

Edith Annie (Toppy) Albrecht 2004

27th Everard Palliser Mallinson 2003

If you would like to do this at All Saints’ Bramham, please let Dolly Mullen, Peggy Kitchen or Gill Young have your contributions by Sunday 20th March.

St Mary’s Boston Spa

Speaker: Mrs Joy Coates

St Luke’ Clifford - Every Thursday 10.00 am - Holy Communion (BCP)

All Saints’ Bramham - Every Friday 10.00 am - Holy Communion

We are open on a Friday night

7 pm to 9 pm

We have Volley Ball, Basket Ball, Table Tennis, Snooker/Pool, Badminton,

Football, Air Hockey, Play stations

and X Boxes.

If you are over 12 years of age,

come along and join in the fun

Entrance Fee: £1
For further information contact

Bramham Youth Club’s

More information will be given in this Magazine nearer the time

Following on from the Parish Plan Questionnaire, 94 villagers stated that they would like to join a rambling club. It has been suggested that our first walk should take place locally through Bramham Park on

Sunday 13th March 2005

If you would like to join us we will be meeting at the Red Lion Car Park at 11.00 am

Look forward to seeing you then

For further information please contact Sue Craven on 842991

What a great time the Brownies had doing their song and dance for the Senior Citizens on Saturday in the Village Hall and what a great performance it was even if I do say so myself - “Well Done Brownies”.

Can I also say what a great time we had at Euro Disney last weekend. All the girls really enjoyed it and so did I, but what hard work it was.

We have a full pack at Bramham Brownies now. It has taken 3 hard years but I hope it was worth it. Over the next few months some girls will be going to Guides so there will be more room available. Lots and lots going on so if your daughter is about to turn 7 and would like to join us, just give me a ring. (Details on Page 2). We meet at Bramham School Tuesday 6 till 7 15.

We would like to say a big thank you to Nicola who has decided to leave Brownies, thanks for all your help - you will be sadly missed.

Bye for now.

Brown Owl x

It is that time of year when we start to look at our property and wonder what maintenance and security is needed to stop things looking neglected.

Perhaps whilst thinking about security lights, window locks, door chains, and/or new bolts for the outside gates along with a lick of paint in some places, you then turn around and notice that trees and bushes are overgrown and could now be straddling the pathway or even overhanging a boundary wall/fence to hinder passers-by or even hide the ‘Opportunist Thief’.

Help with all these jobs including a free complete ‘Home Safety’ check is available should you be in receipt of a benefit, i.e. Council Tax Benefit, Attendance or Disability Allowance to name but a few. Telephone Care and Repair (Leeds) and ask if you qualify for assistance. Telephone, mornings only, 0113 240 6009

If you need to employ a tradesman to undertake some jobs, but don’t have a suitable recommendation from friends/family, there is also another organisation which can help you. Just telephone First Check Point, Leeds 0870 013 2727 and discuss your requirements for any work

required. They will definitely point you in the right direction. All companies in their scheme are subject to frequent checks by Trading Standards and the Police so you can be sure of a good standard of work at a reasonable price.

Have you had a Free ‘Fire Safety’ check carried out at your home? This service is available for everyone. Contact Wetherby Fire Station on 01937 58 22 22 to arrange an appointment or to find out where your nearest Fire Station is. Please let the Fire Service know if you have a friend, relative, neighbour or know of someone living alone that would benefit from this ‘Fire Safety’ check.

All this attention to detail adds to making your home environment happy and secure but do be sure to use your security well and try to prevent the opportunist thief visiting you.

For FREE Crime Prevention advice, telephone either Wetherby Police Station, 0113 232 2096 or 0845 60 60 606 to arrange for a Crime Reduction Officer to visit you.

For URGENT Police Calls always ring 999 For NON Urgent 0845 60 60 606 or Crime Stoppers 0845 555 111

Chairman. 01937 582 441
 

I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along to sing carols round the Christmas Tree at the Old Peoples Shelter in December. Also to Sophie and Paige for playing their flutes.

We had mulled wine and mince pies for afters and £20 was raised for Martin House.

I hope this will be an annual event in the Village and that next year it will be bigger and better.

The Parish Council is concerned about the significant increase in the number of incidents of anti-social behaviour in the village. Over the last couple of months, there has been reported to the Council a spate of incidents, some of which have already been documented elsewhere in the magazine. This includes several instances of graffiti writing around the village, damage to personal and public property including breakages of windows in the church and village hall, damage to the palings of the children’s playground and the wall outside the old people’s shelter and personal attacks on villagers such as egg-throwing. The Council is engaging with West Yorkshire Police in trying to address the problem. It would appear that the alleged perpetrators of this behaviour are the younger elements. However, what does seem to be clear is that whilst most instances of theft and burglary are committed by people coming in to the village from elsewhere, these offenders are the youngsters of our own village. These are not instances of youthful over-exuberance, they are people committing crimes. Anyone having any information about these or any other incidents in the locality should contact PC Done at Wetherby Police station (0113 232 2096) or have a word with her at one of the Police Surgeries in the village. Indeed, as well as expecting the Council and the Police to be taking action, the parents in the village might like to reflect upon what their children are up to during the evenings.

Having successfully fought off a planned new town on the University Farms site a few years ago, the Council is keeping a watching brief on a couple of developments taking place in our neighbourhood. An inquiry has been taking place regarding the plans to construct a major housing development adjacent the Thorp Arch Trading estate. Whilst initially it may not appear that such a development would affect Bramham, with the upgrade of the A1, the first southbound entry for that area will be Bramham crossroads, and it is feared that residents will rat-run through Boston Spa, Clifford and Bramham rather than drive in the “wrong” direction on the busy Wetherby access roads. There are also proposals to build on the former paper mill at Newton Kyme, which adjoins our parish. The Council has been invited to learn more about these developments.

Already people have been applying for residents’ tickets for the 2005 Leeds Festival. At the time of writing, Leeds City Council hasn’t even considered the licence application for the event, nor has the Council entered into any discussion with the promoter about obtaining any tickets. If it is agreed that there will be some allocation of tickets, their availability and the process for obtaining them will be published on the Parish Notice Board in The Square. For information, this notice was posted last year in the first week of April. Until such time as there is a formal announcement, any applications will be disregarded.

Copies of the minutes of council meetings are available on the Parish Council website www.BramhamParishCouncil.org.uk. This site also includes the minutes of the Parish Plan Steering Committee and results of the questionnaire.

There have been four Children’s Services on the second Sunday of each month, at 10.00 am. As a result a group of parents have asked us to start a Sunday School. The first one will be on Sunday 5^th March, which is also Mothering Sunday. If you would like your child to attend please contact Anne Palmer 01937 842850. Normally the Sunday School will be in the Village Hall Supper Room at 9.30/9.45 am until approximately 10.15 am, the children will then come across to church and join the Service for Holy Communion.

Unfortunately the Village Hall is booked on this date and for this first Sunday School we will meet at Old Vicarage House, Vicarage Lane. The Sunday School will be held on the first Sunday of the month.

Thanks to the vandals who damaged the stained glass window in the south aisle we are faced with a bill of £744.00 plus VAT.

As the lighter evenings will soon be upon us can we ask all parents to tell their children that the Churchyard is not a playground.

Our thanks to the Parish Plan and the useful comments made by residents about the Church and the Churchyard.

Our thanks to the volunteers who have agreed to help keep the Churchyard tidy this year. We will be having three grass cutting Saturdays, the first is on Saturday 5^th March, from 10.00 am.

If you can spare an hour or so, do come along with your strimmer or clippers and we will begin the enormous task of uncovering grave stones hidden by grass.

Anne Palmer & Peggy Kitchen

Sunday 2nd April after a shortened morning service

March/April in the Church of England is the time for the Annual General Meetings. Now come on, don’t turn to the next article, stay with this for a moment!

The AGM may not be the most exciting event, but it’s an important one. People rarely turn up in big numbers for the meeting, in fact, probably vicars worry when people do !but important things are done at the AGM.

It is when the churchwardens are elected for the year. They are the Bishop’s agents in the Parish and represent all parishioners.

The accounts are presented at the AGM. You can discover how much it costs to run the Parish (you’ll probably be surprised how much) and what savings the church has.

The Vicar will give a report, saying what has gone on in the past 12 months and what the plans are for the future. His report should give you a good idea of what the life of the Parish is like.

Reports will also probably be given on the condition of the building, so you can learn whether the church is about to fall around your ears next time you attend!

Then there are elections for those standing for the Parochial Church Council, which is the body, along with the Vicar, which organises church life in the Parish.

The Guides and Rangers joined the Brownies on a trip to Euro Disney Paris last month. We travelled through the euro tunnel which was very smooth and we managed to get through one hour before it was closed!

When we arrived in Paris we stayed at the Davy Crocket Ranch. It was good to arrive, the girls were all very quick to unpack and we were no sooner off to the swimming pool. On the Saturday morning we set off for the Theme Park and were there until it closed . The Guides managed to run round both parks in record time in order to get on as many rides as possible. A wonderful time was had by all.

However we would all like to give a great thank you to the community fund for their financial support which enabled us to buy tee shirts and fleeces for all the girls .The whole group looked very good with ‘Bramham’ embroidered on their tops.

The Rangers are going to a weekend camp in April and the Guides have still to decide on their summer trip .
We are also looking forward to a Baden Powell Challenge presentation shortly. 8 of the girls have finished the work which has taken them 18 months to complete, which shows the amount of work involved.

If any one is interested in joining us please contact me on 843197.

Fiona Henderson

Bramham FC is a club with a long and interesting history. After a short period of time in the footballing abyss, your local club has re-formed and is looking to build a successful and stable future. Bramham now boasts two Saturday sides, both of which compete in the Harrogate and district leagues. This development has added an important vibrancy back to the village, particularly on Saturday afternoon and evenings.

People around our local region are talking about Bramham football again, as the club begins to re-build its reputation. Even in its first season for several years, there is a real sense of team spirit and friendship between players across a wide age range, many of whom travel from Tadcaster to represent our Village with pride. Even West Yorkshire league sides are taking notice of little Bramham, especially since the first team put out the likes of Cartiers, (Selby) and Selby Town Academy to reach the final of one of the biggest tournaments in the area, the Barkston Ash Trophy. We now face Sherburn in the final to be played at Tadcaster Albion’s ground on Easter Monday. The first team are unbeaten so far this season, (as late Jan), in all league and cup games, which is a significant achievement.

Much recognition should be given to the people involved in the running of the club, which is based at the White Horse Public House and which now has representation at some parish council meetings. The profile of the club deserves to be improved within the village.

If any fellow Bramhamers feel like becoming more involved, their support and interest would be most welcome.

Phil Alker
 

The season so far:

Played 12 - Won 10 - Drawn 2 - Lost 0 - Scored 48 goals - Conceded 17

The 1st team are undefeated in all competitions in the league.

We are also competing for 4 cups, 3 in the league and the Barkston Ash FC Challenge Cup. Reaching the Barkston Ash Challenge Cup Final is a major achievement, as this is one of the biggest cup competitions.

The final is to be played on Easter Monday 28th March at 3.00 pm at Tadcaster Albion’s Ground. We will be organizing transport too and from the game. Details from Mick at the White Horse.

The reserves are having a harder time in the league. We have played 18, won 6, drawn 0, lost 12, scored 34 goals and conceded 58. We have also reached the semi-final of the divisional cup.

No details of the semi-final have been forwarded to us as yet.

We as a club are very pleased with the way the football club is developing and hope to improve each year to give the village a club to be proud of.

It is our intention to introduce a Junior Section for 2005/2006 season. We are looking for anyone interested in becoming involved to come forward and help establish Bramham Juniors. The teams will hopefully range from under 7’s to under 14’s, Boys and Girls are welcome and needed.

The football club committee meet the first Tuesday of every month at 8.00 pm in the White Horse. If you feel you have something to offer, we are only too happy to hear from you. Players, admin, ideas for the future and potential sponsors.

As with everything else in life, much expense is incurred within the football club, signing on fees and match fees cover the day to day expenses but we always need help with kits, balls etc. If you are in a position to help please do, your generosity and support will enable us to develop and progress.

Mick Fox

Mick Fox , Secretary ,Tel: 541341

Len Shooter , Chairman, Tel: 843847

Mick Wright, 1st Team Manager ,Tel: 843782

Dave Jacklyn , Reserve Team Manager - Tel: 541288

Dear All

I write following the Farewell Service in York Minster on Saturday 15 January to express my huge appreciation and thanks to you all, not only for your immense generosity expressed in the cheque which Bishop Richard handed to me at the conclusion of the service, but also for taking the trouble to come to the Minster and joining with me in giving thanks to God for our life together in this Diocese over these last nine or so years.

It has been an enormous privilege to have been Archbishop of York, something which I never ever either thought or dreamed of. What has kept me going most of all has been my visits to such a wide variety of parishes and places throughout this greatly varied Diocese and the real sense of commitment and enthusiasm as well as your prayerful support, which has always been shown and given.

As in leaving Wakefield and London and now York, I intend to buy painting with some of the money you gave me so I shall have before me a continuing reminder of the Diocese.

Meanwhile please pray for and support Bishop Richard and other members of the Staff team and as well the members of the Crown Nominations Commission as they seek God’s wisdom and guidance in discerning the appointment of my successor.

With my greetings, good wishes, renewed thanks and continuing prayers.

Yours sincerely in Christ

Today the gap between the worlds rich and poor is wider than ever. Global injustices such as poverty, AIDS, malnutrition, conflict and illiteracy remain rife.

Despite the promises of the world leaders, at our present sluggish rate of progress the world will fail dismally to reach internationally agreed targets to halve global poverty by 2015.

World poverty is sustained not by chance or nature, but by a combination of factors: injustice in global trade; the huge burden of debt; insufficient and ineffective aid. But it does not have to be this way, These factors are determined by human decisions.

2005 offers an exceptional series of opportunities for the UK to take a lead internationally to start turning things around. This year as the UK hosts the annual G8 gathering of powerful world leaders and heads up the European Union, the UK government will be a particularly influential player on the world stage.

The MAKE POVERTY HISTORY campaign is centred around three issues: Drop the debt, Trade Justice and More and Better Aid.

To find out more information or join the campaign go to www.makepovertyhistory.org, or fill in a trade justice vote either on a ballot paper available from any member of The Justice and Peace Group.

Victoria Etherington

Justice & Peace Group

Rev. Gary Ridley Tel: 01937 842156

Sunday 6th March Service led by Rev’d Gary Ridley at 10.00 am (5YP2)

Sunday 13th March Service led by Mr Andrew Marshall at 10.00 am

Sunday 20th March Service led by Mrs Linda Smith at 10.00 am

Sunday 27th March Communion Service led by Rev’d Ray Coates at 9.00 am (Chapel)

Dear Friends

One of the short walks I am fully intending to embark upon around Easter this year is to travel the causeway that links Holy Island with the Northumbria coast.

I last made the journey on foot when I was a young child on a school trip and no doubt I complained about every step! However, being a regular visitor to the area now, and with a much more attuned appreciation of its beauty, I feel it is high time I did it again.

Of course, for centuries pilgrims have, right up to the present day, followed in the footsteps of those Celtic saints of the seventh and eighth centuries who first brought Christianity to our shores.

To be a pilgrim has always been a powerful image of the Christian life, even before John Bunyan 300 years ago embarked upon writing his classic of English literature. Pilgrims travel together, which provides an opportunity for particular kind of growth in the individual and the group. To company with another means literally to be sharing bread together. Intimacy at this level can and does lead to a much deepening understanding and growing trust and affection between people. An incident in the New Testament (Luke 24: 13-35) is an example of this. Two pilgrims, despondent and dejected by a totally unexpected and devastating turn of events, journey to Emmaus and are joined by a third. They tell the stranger who comes alongside them what they’ve been discussing and the collapse of all their hopes and dreams, both religious and national, sacred and secular.

Whatever our particular hopes and dreams are, there is a sense in which we are all pilgrims together and we do not journey through this life alone. As we travel through the bad and good let us be ever grateful for those companions in life whose friendship, including our questions and struggles, we have shared and for the strength we have both given and received.

The account in Luke’s gospel also reminds us that there is another who travels with us and who knows and understands us intimately. One who helps us and make sense of life with its twists and turns, whose footsteps are planted firmly next to ours and whose love will never let us go or give us up.

Rev’d Gary Ridley

The concert on 29 January at St Luke's was a resounding success. St Luke's was completely full - so much so that one member of the audience had to sit at the organ! The music was provided by the Valenzano Ensemble, its numbers swelled to nine from the four who have performed before at church. The string ensemble was joined by Lubos Rychlik on the oboe, by David Martin at the keyboard and by Robert Rice, a young professional bass.

Lubos, who was trained in his native Czechoslovakia, played in a Suite for Oboe and Strings composed especially for him by David. This work was a revelation to the audience and will be played again in May in a further concert at St Luke's . I will give more details of this in a future magazine. Robert Rice gave a moving performance of Bach's Cantata "Ich habe genug" and of Steffani's Lagrime Dolorose, a series of songs about doomed love accompanied by two recorders, a cello and keyboard. The music ended with a memorable and lively performance of Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto with the two movements separated by an improvised passage by David as might well have happened in the original performance.

After the music, everyone enjoyed supper with wine and went home tired but happy!

We are very privileged to be able to hear music of this quality played so well in a small rural church and we are extremely grateful to the musicians, who provided their services free, and to those who provided the food and wine. The evening raised £800 of which £400 will go to OXFAM.

If you would like to be kept abreast of events at St Luke's, please let me know by email at vicwillandjoe@hotmail.com or by Tel: 843575

You may have noticed that St Luke's has a new smart red notice board which, I am sure, everyone feels is a huge improvement. There is one change to the pattern of services: Evensong and Benediction which is on the first Sunday of each month has now moved to 4:30.

Special services and any future changes will be displayed on the notice board so it is worth checking now and again.

Mothering Sunday is on 6 March and will be celebrated at St Luke's at 11:00. The service will be child friendly and we hope to welcome the Brownies as usual. All will be very welcome to the service and to refreshments after.

Please see the notice board for Easter Services.

Vicky Gausd