The oldest copy we have is this from January 1885, when the then vicar Walter Thompson wrote “I hope our Parish Magazine will be welcomed by all. It will come as a friend once a month. I have long wished for this " missing link " to be forged” - implying that this was the...
September Magazine During the last weeks the direction of many lives have changed. Our minds may reflect on the sporting achievements of the Commonwealth Games, the European athletics, or some other sporting events in the calendar – for there have been so many during the summer! But for many the outcome of exams has been...
Looking back can trap us in nostalgia. Lionel Bart’s, musical comedy “Fing’s ain’t what they used to be” humorously summed up the attitude in the nineteen sixties. In stark contrast we share in the sadness of the exiled writer of Psalm 137 “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion”....
Look at the birds, they neither sow nor reap, they have no storeroom or barns, yet God feeds them, Luke 12 v 24. I often look at the birds coming to the bird feeder in our garden, they take it for granted that there will be food for them; and that is when I think...
Hospital Notes 36 As a Volunteer at UHNM I receive a parking permit for the staff car parks at both Royal Stoke and County Hospitals and last month I had to go into the ‘Volunteer Coordinators Office’ to collect my new pass. While there I was struck by a poster on the wall which read…...