'Think All A Mother Should Be. She Was That'
My Dear Friends, "Think all a mother should be, she was that." As I mentioned to those of you who were at church last Sunday, this is...
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Christopher Williams
Jul 102 min
Dealing with the pigeons in the church tower 90 years ago …
Edward (Ted) Morris* recalled in 1991 how the problems caused by the pigeons were handled in the 1930s… ‘While Assistant Tower-Keeper in...
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Christopher Williams
Jun 141 min
Look Up - Our Tower Has New Louvres!
The work to renew the wooden louvres on our church tower has been completed! The internal photographs show the new tower louvres with...
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Diana Wells
May 312 min
The VI that fell on Gotham Villas on Twickenham Riverside.
An intriguing enquiry was received in 2021 via the Parish website: “My mother who is 90 is stuck with a memory of her uncle Cecil (Bore)...
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Diana Wells
May 243 min
The Question of Alexander Pope’s Skull
Alexander Pope died in 1744 and was buried in St Mary’s by the chancel step, probably below a square stone incised “P”
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Diana Wells
May 172 min
Heating problems in St Mary’s 100 years ago
Heating the large space enclosed in stone walls and with metal-frame windows has been a cause of much angst and expense in most church...
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Christopher Williams
May 102 min
Our New Assistant Priest
Father Jeff introduces you to The Reverend Donna McDowell... 'We are soon to be joined by a new Assistant Priest who will also act as...
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Diana Wells
May 102 min
No Such Person as a Vicar of Twickenham?
A lively correspondence began on the letters page of the Richmond & Twickenham Times on 11 December 1954, the details of which were...
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Diana Wells
May 34 min
The East Window, St Mary’s Church, Twickenham
As you sit in church your eyes may be drawn upwards above the altar and the Victorian reredos with its Corinthian pilasters to light
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Christopher Williams
Mar 292 min
Pastoral Letter for Easter 2024
Father Jeff sends you this letter: Dear Friends, I was listening to some people being interviewed on the lunchtime news on the radio a...
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Christopher Williams
Mar 81 min
Mothering Sunday and Mothers' Union
This Sunday, 10th March, we celebrate Mothering Sunday and mark the work of St Mary's branch of the Mothers' Union at the end of over 130...
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Christopher Williams
Feb 162 min
Pastoral Letter for Lent from Fr. Jeff
And so we begin the great journey though Lent to Holy Week and Easter. As those of you who were there will recall, on Ash Wednesday you...
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Liz Webborn
Feb 62 min
Calculating Your Carbon Footprint
James Martin of The Woodland Trust is just one voice in the many that encourages us all to think about using a carbon footprint...
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Diana Wells
Dec 1, 20233 min
Christmas 1918 and New Year 1919 in St Mary’s Parish Magazines
After the excitement of the November Armistice and four long years of war the contents of the Parish Magazines returned very quickly to norm
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Liz Webborn
Jul 11, 20231 min
Notes On a Green Theme
Last Sunday Sarah Wilson spoke about the work of Mission for Vision, one of the charities that we, as a church, supports. She told us...
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Liz Webborn
Jul 11, 20232 min
Notes On a Green Theme
St Mary's has achieved the Eco Church Silver Award! Well done team, this is great news. I'd like to copy the email received from Eco...
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Liz Webborn
Jun 5, 20231 min
Notes On a Green Theme
Have you heard about ‘The Great Big Green Week’? This a national week of community action from the 10th to the 18th of June to tackle...
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Liz Webborn
May 31, 20232 min
Notes On a Green Theme
As I sit and write this I am wondering how my old lawn mower is going to cope with the first cut of our lawn after it has gone wild...
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Liz Webborn
May 23, 20231 min
Notes On a Green Theme
With June just around the corner I thought I would flag up The Wildlife Trusts 30 Days Wild initiative. 30 days wild is The Wildlife...
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Liz Webborn
May 16, 20231 min
Notes On a Green Theme
Thank you to Diana Wells for passing on an article headed “Beauty that’s more than skin deep” from the Fairtrade Foundation. Apparently,...
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