Goring Gap News – Monthly Diary – November 2008
This monthly diary reproduced from the Goring Gap News lists the activities of many local clubs and societies, and other events. The Information Office (01491 873565) can always provide more details.
At the end of the pages you will find emergency medical information and details of the rubbish disposal schedule
The following abbreviations are used: Bellême Room BR; Free Church Hall FCH; Goring Community Centre GCC; Goring Village Hall GVH; Morrell Room MR; Storton Lodge SL
You will find some events in the diary have links to further details under Forthcoming Events further down the page.
Monday 17 November
2.30pm GVH—Goring & Streatley Local History Society. Dr Margaret Houlbrooke
– Decades of Discipline – Berkshires Poor Law Children
1870-1920.
Tuesday 18 November
7 for 7.30pm—Goring Gap Business Network meeting. For this month’s venue see
www.goringgapbusiness.net or
contact Ian Dale (01491) 872420.
8pm FCH— Goring & Streatley Photographic Society meeting. Practical Evening
– Making the Best of Your Pictures.
Wednesday 19 November
9.30am—West Berks CareBus trip to Notcutts Garden Centre. (Contact Simon Cook
873152 or see poster in Goring Arcade).
Wednesday 19 – Saturday 22 November
7.30 for 8pm MR— The Goring Gap Players present The
Cemetery Club. Tickets, price £7.50, available from Inspiration.
Thursday 20 November
2.30pm GVH—Goring WI meeting. Wildlife in Oxfordshire
with Dudley lles.
Saturday 22 November
10.30am FCH—Cats Protection Sale.
10am-1pm BR—RSPCA Christmas Fair and coffee morning.
6.30 for 7pm GVH—The Goring and District Twinning Association
Super Supper Quiz. Tickets from Sue Lyons on 873930.
Wednesday 26 November
7.30pm GVH—Streatley Hill Pre-school Group Christmas Shopping
Night.
Saturday 29 November
11am-2pm GVH—St Thomas’ Christmas Fair.
GVH—Goring & Cleeve Pre-school 70s Disco. Tickets must
be bought in advance, contact 872413.
Tuesday 2 December
8pm FCH— Goring & Streatley Photographic Society meeting. Projected Image Competition
open & Barry Michael Trophy (set subject) Architecture. Judge: Roger McCallum.
Wednesday 3 December
1.45pm GVH—Goring Gap Flower Club AGM and Luncheon. 8pm SL— Village Greenfingers
Christmas Social. Guest Fionaghal – A Winter’s Tale.
Thursday 4 December
10am-1pm Goring Parish Council Room— Police Surgery Meeting.
Friday 5 December
GVH—Goring & Streatley Wine Society Christmas Extravaganza. Entry by advance
ticket only. For tickets and/or further information contact Graham Faul 874367
or David Woodage 873615.
Sunday 7 December
4.30pm St Mary’s Church—United Benefice Choral Evensong.
Wednesday 10 December
8pm SL—Cleeve by Goring WI Christmas Party.
Thursday 11 December
2pm MR—Streatley WI meeting – When Did You Last See
Your Father with Sandra Breen.
Saturday 13 December
10.30am-12.30 Arcade, Goring—Goring & Streatley Concert Band
playing carols. Street collection for the Sue Ryder Home at Nettlebed.
Sunday 14 December
3pm St Mary’s, Streatley—Goring Chamber Choir Concert.
Monday 15 December
2.30pm GVH—Goring & Streatley Local History Society. Brian Eighteen – Water
Mills on the River Thames.
Tuesday 16 December
7 for 7.30pm—Goring Gap Business Network meeting. For this month’s venue see
www.goringgapbusiness.net or
contact Ian Dale (01491) 872420.
Wednesday 17 December
9.30am—West Berks CareBus trip to Newbury and Savages 9:30am. (Contact Simon
Cook 873152 or see poster in Goring Arcade).
Thursday 18 December
2.30pm GVH—Goring WI Christmas Lunch.
Friday 19 December
8pm GVH—The Gap Gig – John & Bill’s Christmas Bash.
Saturday 20 December
8pm GVH—Goring & Streatley Concert Band Concert.
Sunday 21 December
4pm St Andrew’s, South Stoke—Carols by Candlelight.
Wednesday 31 December
9pm-1am GVH—The Gap Gig – New Year’s Eve Jazz Party. Ticket
arrangements as for 19 December.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
JAZZ – THE GAP GIG
The Gap Gig, in the Goring Village Hall, from 8pm to 11.30pm on Friday
14 November, presents The Oxford Classic Jazz Band, a fun ragtime band
led on piano and vocals by the young rising star, Nicholas Gill, and featuring
the huge talent of James Evans on clarinet and sax. Fully licensed bar with
local Real Ales.
Tickets, £10, are available from Inspiration or at the door. To book a table
call Bill (875758) or John (874492).
GORING GAP PLAYERS – THE CEMETERY CLUB
Ivan Menchell’s Broadway comedy The Cemetery Club is to be staged by
The Goring Gap Players at the Morrell Room, Streatley, from Wednesday
19 November until Saturday 22 November. This hilarious comedy is about
Doris, Lucille and Ida, three widows who are close friends. All meet regularly
every month at the cemetery, to remember their dead husbands. On the 4th anniversary,
Lucille thinks it is about time they ‘moved on‘ and played the field! Each of
them has different views as to whether they should remain faithful to their
dead husbands. The appearance of Sam, a widower, at the cemetery causes them
all to question their own beliefs and aspirations for the future. Their discussions
test their relationships and bring out a few home truths. Will the attraction
of Sam to Ida end their friendships completely? This is a clever play, raising
different emotions when love, death, respect, loyalty and religion are discussed
in a light hearted and humorous style. On a cold November night what better
way to warm your heart, than to enjoy a witty play with many hilarious moments
and amusing antics.
The doors open at 7.30pm and the play commences at 8pm. There is a Bar.
Tickets, price £7.50, are available from Inspiration. For further information
telephone 873530.
RSPCA CHRISTMAS FAIR AND COFFEE MORNING
The RSPCA Christmas Fair and Coffee Morning is to be held on Saturday
22 November from 10am to 1pm in the Bellême Room. Come and buy brand
new Christmas tree decorations at bargain prices – we have a large selection
for you to choose from, both traditional and unusual. There will also be an
exciting tombola and two of the popular stalls from last year’s Craft Fair.
Coffee, tea, soft drinks and homemade cakes will be
on sale all morning.
CATS PROTECTION
On 22 November there will be the usual sale and coffee morning
in the Free Church Hall, starting at 10.30am. Come and have a cup of coffee
with us on that Saturday morning. Entrance is free. We shall have a bin for
donations of cat food and litter and stalls for bric-à-brac, plants, books and
Cats Protection goods, all suitable for yourself or gifts for Christmas. Do
please support us. Offers of goods to sell and help on the day to Sue Smith
(01491) 873218.
GORING & DISTRICT TWINNING ASSOCIATION
The Goring and District Twinning Association is hosting a fundraising Super
Supper Quiz on Saturday 22 November. Tables are for teams of
eight people but don’t worry if you can’t make up this number, Twinning will
live up to its name and pair you up. 6.30 for 7pm start. The winning team will
receive a case of wine.
Tickets cost £12, available from Sue Lyons on 873930 and include a three
course meal, lots of easy questions. A raffle and a bar will be available.
STREATLEY HILL PRE-SCHOOL – CHRISTMAS
SHOPPING NIGHT
Stuck for Christmas Gift ideas? Streatley Hill Pre-school Group is holding a
Christmas Shopping Night at Goring Village Hall on Wednesday
26 November at 7.30pm. Come and join us for a festive drink, whilst browsing
through high quality and different gifts. We will have many stalls bearing toys,
bags, scarves, jewellery, arts and crafts items and much more.
All proceeds will go to the Pre-school.
ST THOMAS’ CHRISTMAS FAIR
The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Goring, is holding its annual Christmas
Fair on Saturday 29 November in Goring Village
Hall from 11am until 2pm. This will be an opportunity to buy Christmas presents
for all. Stalls will include handcrafted gifts and knitwear and cards as well
as nearly new bric-à-brac and toys. Also, following the sell out success of
last year, there will be another opportunity to buy the St. Thomas’ recipe book,
a collection of delicious favourites submitted by budding Delias and Gordons
from in and around Goring. As usual the much heralded lunches and refreshments
will be on offer. Santa will be waiting in his grotto to entertain the children,
whilst giving Mum and Dad a chance to stock up on cakes, plants, books, DVDs,
preserves and stamps.
GORING & CLEEVE PRE-SCHOOL 70s DISCO
Following in the footsteps of last year’s hugely successful 80s Disco, which
saw 250 people from across the community dance the night away, Goring & Cleeve
Pre-School is putting on a 70s Disco on 29 November in the
Village Hall. There will be authentic 70s cocktails, fabulous music from across
the decade, prize for the best outfit, a raffle with great prizes and lots of
other treats. It’s an opportunity to forget the drabness of credit crunch 2008
and don those dancing shoes. Flower power, disco, punk, ethnic, bell bottoms…so
many styles to choose from.
Tickets cost £10 and must be bought in advance from 872413, or from Jo Cammell,
Nikki Reid, Anna Lawson or Charlotte Butterworth at Goring School.
GORING CHAMBER CHOIR
Following the great success of the Three Choirs Concert, see back page, which
looks like becoming an annual event in Goring, our next annual Goring event
is the Christmas Concert, which this year will take place at St Mary’s Church,
Streatley, on Sunday 14 December at 3pm. The
concert will consist of carols from around the world, including Buxtehude’s
Christmas Cantata Das Neugeborne Kindelein (The Little New Born Jesus Child).
There will also of course be the usual carols for audience participation and
Janet Pound will give some seasonal piano solos.
Tickets will be on sale a little nearer the time of
the concert at Inspiration and from any choir member or by calling 873438.
THE GAP GIG – JOHN & BILL’S CHRISTMAS
BASH
John & Bill’s Christmas Bash and, as is usual for the seasonal event, good old
earthy fun Dixieland. Nothing complicated, just toe-tapping good fun. Oh! And
there are free nibbles. The Gap Gig, in the Goring Village Hall, from 8pm to
11.30pm on Friday 19 December, presents Christine
Woodcock and the Stackyard Stompers.
Fully licensed bar with local Real Ales. Tickets, £12,
are available from Inspiration or pay at the door. To book a table call Bill
(875758) or John (874492).
CONCERT BAND – CHRISTMAS CONCERT
The concert will be on Saturday 20 December at
8pm in Goring Village Hall and the profit will be donated to Leukaemia Research
UK, in memory of Phil Gregson, our Engagements Secretary for many years. It
will be the band’s first public performance under our new conductor, Richard
Powell. The concert will feature our traditional mix of carols for you to sing
along to together with other pieces of music.
Tickets will be £7, with free admission for accompanied children under 12. Refreshments
will be available in the interval. Doors open 7.30pm.
The Band will be playing carols in Goring Arcade on Saturday
13 December, 10.30 to 12.30 if the weather is kind (or until 12 if it
isn’t!) with the usual street collection for the Sue Ryder Home at Nettlebed.
AROUND & ABOUT
WALLINGFORD’S ARTISTIC LEGACY
Coming to Wallingford Museum, from 4 to 29 November,
is this unique exhibition about the Victorian painters who lived in Wallingford
at the beginning of the 20th century and the artistic legacy they left to their
pupils and descendants. Amongst the 80 or so paintings on show will be works
by James Hayllar and his daughters and GD Leslie and his son – many of the paintings
rarely, if ever, seen in public before. With them will be some 20 pictures by
their friend and local art teacher, Claude Rowbotham, plus a remarkable collection
of 30 paintings by Rowbotham, plus a remarkable collection of 30 paintings byhis
pupil Kate Latter. Most are of local views. Representing later generations,
there will be works by the descendants of the Leslie and Hayllar families from
New Zealand and South Africa. The exhibition has received financial assistance
from GADFAS – Goring Decorative & Fine Arts Society – who, to mark their 20th
anniversary last year, generously donated £500 towards the cost of mounting
it; and from Goring Local History Society who contributed to the cost of framing
the Museum’s Kate Latter paintings.
ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH ADVENT SERVICE
Lower Basildon is delighted to announce the re-opening of the church following
extensive roof restoration work, with an Advent Service, at 3pm on Sunday
30 November, for which the Upper Basildon Primary School Choir is joining
us. Drinks and mince pies will be served. All are welcome.
SOUTH CHILTERN CHORAL SOCIETY
The South Chiltern Choral Society Christmas concerts are being held on Saturday
20 December at 7.30pm and Sunday 21 December at 2.30pm in Chiltern Edge
School. As ever, the Society has invited a primary school choir to join them,
this time from Caversham.
Tickets £10 (£5 for under 18s & children under 5 free)
from Heather Clark (01491) 575727. There will be a charity collection at these
concerts.
SINODUN PLAYERS PANTOMIME
This year’s pantomime, Puss in Boots, will be very much in the traditional style
with ‘funny men’ indulging in custard pie slapstick. It will be staged at Wallingford’s
Corn Exchange nightly from 15 to 31 January 2009.
Tickets go on sale on Friday 21 November. Box Office
number is (01491) 825000
CORN EXCHANGE, WALLINGFORD
Cinema at 7.30pm
Tickets: Adults £6 Under 15s £4
Fri 14 Nov - Thu 20 Nov (except Sat 15 Nov)
GHOST TOWN (12A)
Fri 21 Nov - Thu 4 Dec (except Sat 22 Nov)
QUANTUM OF SOLACE (12A) (James Bond is back)
Fri 5 Dec - Thu 11 Dec (except Sat 6 Dec)
EASY VIRTUE (PG)
Fri 12 Dec - Thu 18 Dec
CHANGELING (PG)
Fri 19 Dec (1 night only)
MAMMA MIA (PG)
See the Arcade Noticeboard or phone the Box Office (Tel: 825000) for more details. Also on www.cornexchange.org.uk The Box Office is open Fri and Sat mornings from 10-12.30pm.
To assist residents of Goring & Streatley, cinema bookings may be made through 19 Lockstile Way, Goring. (Tel: 872660) at any reasonable time. Payment by cheque please, made payable to ‘Corn Exchange’, must be made by 6pm on Thursdays for performances during the following week.
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Doctor—to contact a doctor between 8am and 6.30pm ring (01491) 872372.
To contact a doctor when the surgery is not open, at night and at weekends (i.e. 6.30pm-8am Monday to Friday and throughout the weekend and Bank Holidays) Telephone 0845 345 8995.
This number will also be available on the surgery answerphone. If necessary you may be asked to attend Abingdon Hospital or Townlands Hospital in Henley.
Nearest Casualty Department – RBH, Reading 0118 322 7020.
NHS Direct is available for advice (e.g. on minor ailments, coughs, etc) 24 hours a day, on 0845 4647.
Your local pharmacy can also offer you a range of services, including advice and medicines to relieve symptoms of minor ailments.
Emergency Dentist – Weekdays 6.30pm-10pm. Weekends & Bank Holidays 9am-9pm. Contact 0845 345 8995.
British Red Cross Medical
Loan – for short term loan of Wheelchairs etc. –
Mon - Sat 10am to 12 noon. 873565.
Emergency 872736.