Goostrey Flower Club is on Thursday 11th April, starting at 2.30 in the Village Hall.
Heather Hayes will be the demonstrator her title “With Beauty in Mind”. All are very welcome.
Anita Wright with one of her designs March 2019
The men to be honoured: (click the individual name links for more details listed on the Cheshire County Memorial Project)
Joseph Hamilton. Born Allostock 1895. Killed 31st October 1914. No known resting place.
Walter Bagnall. Born Twemlow 1893. Died age 22 in action at Ypres 6th May 1915.
William Davies. Born 5th May 1894 Parkgate Peover Superior. Died 17th August 1915.
Harry Newton. Born 1882. His family moved to Bank View, Goostrey, he enlisted in October 1915. Died from his wounds on 15th April 1916.
William Carter. Born Goostrey 1897. Enlists at Northwich in 1914. Killed in action 27th July 1916.
Thomas Edward Barber. Born 1884. Killed in action 17th September 1916.
George Lewis Hamilton. Born Twemlow Hall Lodge 1891. Returned to England wounded in September 1916 and died, age 25, from his wounds on 27th October 1916. Awarded the Military Medal for bravery in action which led to his death.
William Street. Born Twemlow Green 1888. Killed in Balkan Campaign 25th April 1917.
George Smallwood. Born in Blackden 1890. Died in action 13th June 1917.
Herbert James Hardy. Born 1890 in London but family moved to Twemlow. Killed at the third Battle of Ypres on 22nd September 1917.
Frederick Johnson. Born Blackden 1887. Killed at The Somme on 28th September 1917.
Philip Kirkland Glazebrook.D.S.O. Born December 24th 1880. A Conservative MP in South Manchester whose parents were from Twemlow Hall. Died in action on 7th March 1918.
Levi Jervis. Born Blackden 1886. 2nd/8th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers, 307364. Killed, aged 32, in action 21st March 1918. Commemorated Pozieres Memorial, the Somme and Lower Withington memorial.
Arthur Wood. Born Goostrey 1898. Killed at battle of St Quentin on 23rd March 1918.
James Street. Gunner. Born in Goostrey 1891. Died from his wounds on 26th March 1918.
Charles Parrott. Born Goostrey 1899. Awarded the Military Medal in 1917 for bravery in action. Killed at Flanders on 31st March 1918.
Thomas Rufus. MC. Born May 18th 1890. Son of parents from The Willows, Goostrey. Died in action 14th April 1918. Buried where he fell.
George Thomas Woodward. Born 1898. Survived hospital treatment to return to action, but died on 18th December 1918 from the flu epidemic sweeping through Europe.
We will remember them.
Goostrey’s fallen in the First World War will be honoured at a ceremonial oak tree planting at 10.30am this Saturday, November 10th on the Bogbean.
The 18 young men from Goostrey, Twemlow and Allostock who gave their lives in the war will be remembered at a memorial service organised by the Goostrey branch of the Royal British Legion, who have funded the event along with Goostrey Parish Council.
The branch will be joined by the chairman of Goostrey Parish Council, Cllr Ken Morris, together with 18 Scouts and Guides from Goostrey, the vicar of St Luke’s Church, Rev Heather Buckley, and the Minister of the Methodist Church, Reverend Yvonne Pearson.
Commemorating 100 years since the end of the First World War, an oak tree will be planted on the Bogbean, and Scouts and Guides will place named poppy crosses in honour of each of the fallen in a wreath beside the tree, to salute the men and as an everlasting memory of their sacrifice for the community and country. A memorial plaque will be placed around the tree.
**There is a Service of Remembrance at St Luke’s at 10.00am on Sunday 11th and the bells will also be rung at 12.30 to mark the 100th anniversary (along with many churches nationally). The parade will assemble in the Crown Inn car park from 9.15am.
Biographies of Goostrey people who gave their lives can be viewed in the church this week during daylight hours.
Don’t forget to move your clocks back an hour to GMT before you go to bed on Saturday night – and enjoy the extra hour in bed on Sunday morning (although it does mean we lose an hour of sunlight til spring). Greenwich Mean Time starts at 02:00 on Sunday morning 29th October:
Spring forward – Fall backIn 1907 William Willett introduced the idea of changing the clocks to stop people wasting daylight on summer mornings. He spent the rest of his life trying to convince people it was a good idea but died a year before Britain adopted “British Summer Time” during the First World War in May 1916. This used less domestic coal which increased supplies for the war effort. [Germany had adopted his daylight saving idea a month previously.]
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Goostrey railway bridge to be closed overnight for brickwork repairs on two Saturday nights 10pm to 7am.
The Parish Council’s Neighbourhood Plan for Goostrey is now finished, approved by the Examiner, and will go to a public vote in a referendum on Thursday 17th August when Goostrey residents will be able to vote for it to be adopted. If you will be away and can’t vote in person you can easily apply through the following links for a Postal Vote or a Proxy Vote but must do so by 31st July.
We encourage everyone to vote “YES” for the Plan; designed to deliver the Vision via a set of Policies that reflect the views expressed by residents in the village questionnaire back in 2015 after the Parish Council first set up the Neighbourhood Plan Committee.
You can read the full plan – click on the link Goostrey Neighbourhood Plan – which will only be adopted if more people vote ‘yes’ than ‘no’.
Paper copies are available for inspection from 3rd July in the Parish Office (01477 535825).
All residents of Goostrey Parish on the Electoral Register will be able to vote – the question will be:
Referendum is Thursday 17th August 2017.
A pictorial of Goostrey Vision and Policies
Cheshire East say the application for the NetherLea/HermitageLane is awaiting a visual landscape appraisal from the applicant. Next Southern committee would be Sept 24th.
Mount Pleasant committee also scheduled for 24th Sept.
LoveGoostrey hears that the committee date for the Hermitage Lane application has been pushed back to March 12th, and will be heard by the Southern Planning Committee rather than the Strategic Planning Board as originally advised. We understand that chicken farm application will be heard again on the same day.
Although Cheshire East have been making encouraging noises they have yet to be tested; we hope that these applications for major sites will be refused.
An application for development by Mount Pleasant has not been submitted yet following the public exhibition at the end of January.
A proposal for the Grange fields was on show yesterday – it has to be said that it is just a flight of fancy, not an actual application; so let us not concern ourselves with details at this stage.
LoveGoostrey will keep you posted.
