The walk this month embraced two of the best features of our local area, which are probably well known to everyone. Starting from the main car park at Beacon Fell on a pleasant and clear morning, we started the ascent through the forest to the trig point at the summit. Read more…
Cuddy Hill is an area north of Woodplumpton. The starting point of the walk was the Plough At Eaves, a remote pub with a long and interesting history, dating from 1625 and used as a refuge by both sides during the Battle of Preston. A century earlier, The Battle of Read more…
After last month’s walk along the prom, we now needed to return to something a little more challenging. Unfortunately, the planned walk, Beacon Fell and the River Brock was changed because of ice on a couple of the steeper paths, so Bill, from our Bolton group, came up with this Read more…
For the past two years, the January walk has been along Blackpool Promenade, due to severe snow and ice. However, this time the culprit was the soggy terrain after the recent heavy rain. For a change, we started at the top, at Fleetwood and headed for the central pier at Read more…
. This is the new title for the work amongst very young children. In the last Messenger we outlined how, through links with Barnacre Road School and 2toSchool, we now have a special service once every half term. In October we attempted a more adventurous type of craft work. The Read more…
Only two weeks following the Longridge Band Concert, Christ Church was yet again the venue for a musical feast. Joyce Tindsley (Mezzo Soprano), making a welcome return visit along with Matthew Balson (Trumpet) and Geoff Balson (Piano and Organ), delighted the hundred plus audience with a varied programme of vocal Read more…
After last month’s aborted attempt at Parlick, we chose a very flat walk this time, along the Lancashire Coastal Way to Carnforth and returning via the Lancaster Canal. We started the walk from Hest Bank, having eventually got our cars across the level crossing over the very busy west coast Read more…
At lunchtime today a white van drew up outside the church and collected 148 shoeboxes covered in attractive Christmas paper and full of presents for deprived children in Eastern Europe. The two men who collected them were delighted to see so many as they had received very few at their Read more…