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2024 October Newsletter |
- Sheep, wool and fleece
- A resumé of Saint Botolph’s resurgences
- Botolph becomes fashionable
- Wool churches
- The London Sheep Drive
- A view from Melrose Abbey
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2024 August Newsletter |
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2024 June Newsletter |
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2024 April Newsletter |
- Barrel tombstones
- The cluster of Saint Botolph Churches and a Botolph’s bridge
in Kent
- Communications: My friend Colin Nicholson pointed out my error in
the last edition of The Botolphian where I referred to Colchester Priory
as Colchester Abbey. Mea culpa.
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2024 February Newsletter |
- St Andrews Fife, with editorial notes about the tradition of
‘droving’ and how it might (or might not) have affected the building of
Saint Botolph churches.
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2023 December Newsletter |
- Whitekirk in East Lothian – a ‘must visit’ for Medieval pilgrims.
- Herdmanston Chapel – potentially another dedication to Saint
Botolph.
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2023 October Newsletter |
- Lindisfarne and Botolphian connections.
- SOSB Luncheon 18th October 2023. 12.30 for 1 p.m. at the
Hilton City Centre Hotel – two course luncheon £39 per head. We are very
low on numbers for this event so please consider supporting it.
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2023 August Newsletter |
- The Collegiate abbey of St Peter’s at Westminster.
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2023 June Newsletter |
- Scandinavian Connections
- Welcome to new members Ria Lacey and Carol Harte from ‘Write by the
Sea’ in Folkestone.
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2023 April Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Lullingstone.
- Please note NOW in your diary 18th October 2023 – Cambridge
– 12.30 for 1 p.m. Annual Luncheon of SOSB. Venue to be announced later.
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2023 February Newsletter |
- The lost church of St Botolph, Sulby, Northamptonshire.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome as a new member, Revd
Jonathan Collis, the new rector of Saint Botolph’s Cambridge.
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2022 December Newsletter |
- Abbey of Faremoutiers-en-Brie, France.
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2022 August Newsletter |
- Iona Abbey, Argyll, Scotland.
- Correspondence from 47 people this ‘double month’ – all of which I
was delighted to receive; comments were mainly congratulations
–regarding the newsletter’s 100th issue, my 80th birthday, St Botolph’s
Day, ‘The Flag’ and also a lot of appreciation about the contents of the
Ely newsletter. I am glad you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoy this
month’s newsletter too.
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2022 June Newsletter |
- Ely Abbey and Ely Cathedral.
- This is the 100th issue of The Botolphian.
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2022 April Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Burgh, Suffolk.
- A warm welcome to our new member Revd Katrina Dykes from Burgh.
- Today is The Botolphian’s 9th birthday.
- Correspondence: I have received a great deal of correspondence but
this was mainly about the Sleep Out which last month was all-pervading.
I hope that I have not missed anything important - if so please remind
me.
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2022 February Newsletter |
- Abbey of Bury St Edmunds.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Jenny Bolt (from Selsey in West Sussex) and Professor Graham Ward(Regius
Professor of Divinity at Christ Church Oxford).
- Correspondence from Jenny Bolt, Peter Godden and Graham Ward.
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2021 December Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church and Priory, Colchester.
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2021 October Newsletter |
- Saint Botolph’s Church, Cambridge.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Ian Styler as a new member.
- After my ‘apology for lateness’ email I received many delightful and
encouraging replies - so many in fact that I was unable to reply to all
of them yet… or this issue would have been even later. Many thanks to
you all.
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2021 August Newsletter |
- The development of the market town of Boston in Lincolnshire.
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2021 June Newsletter
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- Church of Theydon Bois, Essex.
- Scarning and the Mystery of Spoonbridge by Andy Eagle.
- Correspondence from John Sennett, Rosemary Hammick, Heather
Erguvanli, Nick Molyneux, Father Robert Godding and Jane Hogg.
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2021 April Newsletter
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- Buttsbury, Essex.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
David Lawson from Folkestone; Andy Eagle from Scarning.
- Correspondence from Roger Joyce (Folkestone), Professor Barbara
Yorke (Winchester), Father Pachomius (Brookline USA), Heather Erguvanli
Bradenham, Ian Butson (British Sundial Society), John Sennett
(Swyncombe), Andy Eagle (Scarning) and Neil Wright (Boston, Lincs).
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2021 February Newsletter |
- Church of St. Botolph’s, Bradenham, Buckinghamshire.
- It gives me much pleasure to welcome Revd Jenny Ellis from
Bradenham as a new member.
- Correspondence from: Marion Peel, Natasha Kerrigan, John
Sennett, Graham Jones, Father Pachomius and many others.
- Sad news of the passing of David Gallimore.
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2020 December Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Chapel, St Andrews, Fife and Scotland in general.
- Correspondence from Anne Pegg, John Sennett and Tony Connolly.
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2020 November Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph, Swyncombe, Oxfordshire.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome as a new member Mark Fletcher
from Islemere in Cambridgeshire.
- Correspondence from Revd Paula Griffiths concerning the millennium
celebrations at St Botolph’s, Hadstock.
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2020 October Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph’s, Broome.
- Correspondence from John Sennett, Nick Molyneux, Marcia Barton, and
Graham Jones.
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2020 September Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph’s, Shenley, Hertfordshire – now a private
residence.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Revd Edward Rochead as a new
member. Edward lives in Eastleigh in Hampshire. but hails from Suffolk
and is a friend of our president Father Tim L’Estrange.
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2020 August Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph, Northfleet (3)
- Correspondence from Father Stephen Anderson, Robert Beavis, Duncan
Hopkin, Joanna Comer, Marcia Barton, Revd Paul Wilkinson, Graham Higgs
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2020 July Newsletter
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- St Botolph’s Church, Chevening, Kent update.
- Welcome to new members: Nick Molyneux from Nottingham; Graham Higgs
from Chevening and Robert Hodges from Chevening.
- Readers’ emails from Emma Rose Barber; Anne Pegg; Anne Dickinson;
Patricia Croxton-Smith; John Burnapp; Michael Knights; Revd Margaret
Widdess and many other greetings.
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2020 June Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Northfleet, Kent.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome as new members: Rosemary
Feuell from Cambridge; Wendy Waller from St Botolph’s, Northfleet, Kent
and James Ratcliffe from St Botolph’s Allerthorpe, Yorkshire.
- Correspondence from Tony Connolly, Jane Micklethwaite and many
others.
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2020 May Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph’s, Norwich.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Sarah Bristow from Folkestone,
John Holmes from Katy, Texas, USA, Gerard Babendreier from Rockville,
Maryland, USA and Peter Godden from Folkestone as new members:
Correspondence from Lyn Stilgoe, Canon Stuart Morris, Tony Connolly,
John Sennett, Anne Dickinson, Andrew Kelly, John Holmes and many others.
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2020 April Newsletter |
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2020 March Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph’s Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Pam Petley from Stamford North
in Kent as a new member.
- Correspondence from Graham Jones, Tim Monsour, Marcia Barton
and Revd Paul Wilkinson.
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2020 February Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Chapel, Folkestone.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Tony Quarrington (Folkestone)
as a new member.
- Correspondence from Graham Jones, Charles Evans, Paul Kemsley and
Robert Beavis.
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2020 January Newsletter |
- Church of Hardham, West Sussex.
- It gives me great pleasure to the following new members: Revd
Kathryn Evans - the new curate at Church with Chapel Brampton and Father
Peter Mallinson at St Botolph’s Hardham.
- Correspondence from Marion Peel, Michael Knights and Revd William
Howard.
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2019 December Newsletter
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- The lost St Botolph chapel of Scarning, Norfolk.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Douglas Perkins, Colin Tulfer, David March, Bernard Mee, Brian Moss,
John Evans and John Goodsell - all from Maidstone in Kent. I also
welcome the return of Harriet Enholme from Finland.
- Correspondence from Jean Gibran from Boston USA and from Revd Paula
Griffiths from sb Hadstock.
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2019 November Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph’s, Botolphs, West Sussex.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
June Kennard, Rachel Reed and Stuart Stevens from Botolphs, West Sussex.
Tessa Ivory, Bev Parsons, Paddy Yule and our Mayor, Jackie Meade - all
from Folkestone.
- Correspondence from Anne Dickinson, Father Pachomius, Janet Havers,
Revd Paula Griffiths and Jean Gibran.
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2019 October Newsletter
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- St Botolph’s house Steynton, Dyfed.
- St Botolph’s Green, Leominster, Herefordshire.
- Summary of St Botolph in the west.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Giles Story from London and Sean Wilkinson from Dayton, Ohio - at
present in Britain visiting Norfolk churches.
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2019 September Newsletter
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- St Mary’s Church, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Tina Watson from Lullingstone
as a new member. She will be taking over (as their church’s
representative) from Revd Gary Owen who is leaving the parish (see
Correspondence).
- Correspondence from Gary Owen and Patricia Croxton-Smith.
- URGENT NOTICE: The Annual Luncheon will be held at the Hilton
Cambridge City Centre Hotel on Weds 23 October at 12.30 for 1 p.m. The
cost will be £30 per head which includes a ‘welcoming Prosecco.’
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2019 August Newsletter |
- Much Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new
members: Mara Collura from Licata, Sicily, Richard Anderson-Dungar from
Banningham Norfolk.
- Correspondence from: Christine Hayes, Anne Dickinson, Revd
Paula Griffiths, David Gallimore, John Sennett, Dorothy Halfhide,
Richard Anderson-Dungar and Father Pachomius.
- Can I recommend that when reading The Botolphian directly from
your computer, you click the VIEW tag and, under Zoom, select the
largest magnification your screen will take (i.e. somewhere between 175%
and 200%?). This makes the pictures look so much better.
- The Annual Luncheon will be held at the Hilton Cambridge City
Centre Hotel on Weds 23 October at 12.30 for 1 p.m. The cost will be £30
per head which includes a ‘welcoming Prosecco.’
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2019 July Newsletter
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- St Botolph’s Church, Hadstock, Essex.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the Revd Dr John Rawlinson
(from Stow Longa) as a new member.
- Correspondence from Duncan Hopkin, Marcia Barton, Peter Van Demark,
Ann Pegg and our President FT.
- Congratulations to our President, Father Tim L’Estrange who has just
celebrated 30 years since his ordination.
- The date of the Society’s annual luncheon at the Hilton Cambridge
City Centre Hotel is Wednesday 23rd October 2019 at 12.30 for 1 p.m. on
the hotel’s first floor in our usual venue - now called Section 3 of the
Bull and Bass restaurant. I have not received the prices yet but it is
likely to be about £30 a head. Please let me know as soon as possible if
you are likely to be joining us so that I can pencil in your name with a
view to your confirming later.
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2019 June Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, London
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Lynne Ballew (Maine USA/Felixtowe UK): Heather Erguvanli from High
Wycombe; Ben Cottam from Folkestone.
- Correspondence from Janet Havers, Anne Dickinson, Gillian
Ridout, Revd David Murdoch, Marcia Barton,, Revd Paula Griffiths, Mhairi
Ellis, Revd Canon Cynthia Hebden and (belatedly - see below) Christopher
Micklethwaite.
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2019 April Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph’s, Billingsgate.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new
members: David Coble from Shepshed; David Wilkinson, Beverley Willis,
Matthew Tottle, Jeff Hall, John Williams, Martin Lukehurst and John
Fisher - all from Sittingbourne; Thomas Smith from Bristol, Tennessee,
USA; Andrew Kelly from Ramsgate.
- Correspondence from Richard Harbord shedding light on the
mystery of the location of St Botolph’s Chapel at Tuttington; also from
Roger Cordey at Morley St Botolph’s.
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2019 March Newsletter |
- St Botolph-without-Aldersgate
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new
members: Nanouschka Burstrom from Stockholm University; Father David
Armstrong from St Botolph without Bishopsgate; Robert Cronin (member of
the FE research group) from Hythe; Maureen Jordan (associate of the FE
research group)
- Correspondence from Revd Margaret McPhee; Revd Paula
Griffiths; Margaret Gornall; Roy Tricker; Colin Setchfield; Revd Mary
Sokanovic.
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2019 February Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph without Aldgate.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Rosemary Hammick, Tina and Andrew Whibley (all from Aldgate); Gabrielle
(from Germany).
- Correspondence from Matthew Harffy, Anne Pegg and Marion Peel.
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2019 January Newsletter |
- Ruins of St Botolph’s church, Shotesham, Norfolk.
- Correspondence from David Noy and Harriet Enholm.
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2018 December Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Newton.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following as new members:
Revd Jenny Seggar from Bramford near Ipswich and Revd Nick Munday from
Newton, Lincolnshire.
- Correspondence from Duncan Hopkin, Dick & Daphne Pascoe, Revd Jenny
Seggar and Joanna Comer.
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2018 November Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Helpston.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Jan Clarke (Folkestone); Jeff
Gough; Natasha Kerrigan (Folkestone).
- Correspondence from Peter Horsefield from Trunch in Norfolk.
- The date for the 1919 Annual Luncheon at Cambridge is WEDNESDAY 23rd
OCTOBER - please put it in your diaries now.
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2018 October Newsletter |
- Church of St Botolph by Bargate, Lincoln.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Revd James Watson from
Harrington, Sandra Bierman from Folkestone and Nicola Tolson, also from
Folkestone.
- Correspondence from Betty West, Heather Flack and Colin Potter.
- It is not too late to join us at the society’s Annual Luncheon at
the Hilton City Hotel in Cambridge at 12.30 for 1 p.m. on Wednesday 24th
October 2018. Cost is only £30 per head for a three course meal
including tea and coffee and a Welcome-glass of Prosecco.
I have
received a few gripes that two month’s notice is insufficient so please
note: Next year, the luncheon is booked for Wednesday 23rd October 2019.
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2018 September Newsletter |
- Church of St Peter and St Paul (ex-St Botolph), Harrington,
Northants.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome as new members: Betty West,
Sally Brookshaw and Revd James Watson from Harrington; Antonella
Delucchi from Turin, Italy and Marti Stewart from Paris: Revd Jackie
Bullen and Jane Hogg - both from St Botolph’s Longthorpe; Judy Doherty
from Folkestone.
- Correspondence from Mhairi Ellis, Jane Hogg, David Buxton, Sylvia
and Edward Robertson and The Francigena Society.
- Please join us at the society’s Annual Luncheon at the Hilton City
Hotel in Cambridge at 12.30 for 1 p.m. on Wednesday 24th October.
Further details will follow in a separate email.
- If you fancy a trip to Folkestone this Wednesday 5th September
please come along to St Eanswythe’s Church at CT20 1SW at 6.30 p.m. for
my talk “Princess Eanswythe and Brother Botolph.”
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2018 August Newsletter
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- St Botolph’s Church, Stoke Albany, Northants.
- Correspondence from Graham Jones, Philip Spencer and John McConnell.
- Please make a note in your diaries of the society’s ANNUAL LUNCHEON
which will be held at the usual venue in Cambridge on Wednesday 24th
October 2018 at 12.30 for 1 p.m.
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2018 July Newsletter
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- Longthorpe Church, Cambs. and Botolph Bridge, Cambs.
- As you will see this issue heralds the rise of the St
Botolph’s church count by three with the additions of: Thorpe, Botolph
Bridge and St Peter at Gowt with St Botolph by Bargate, Lincoln. More
new sites than new members this month!
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Hymns For Saint Botolph's Day
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2018 June Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Graveley, Cambridgeshire.
- Patronal Festivals: You will already have received details in a
supplementary email of those being held at Church with Chapel Brampton,
Bishopsgate, Aldgate and Hadstock. At the end of this newsletter in the
correspondence section there are further notices from Father Stephen
Anderson of Cambridge; Christine Hayes of Stow Longa, Cambridgeshire;
Revd Laura McPhee of Hevingham, Norfolk with notices of their churches
Patronal Festivals.
- There is also correspondence from Dr David Noy, Dr Lesley Hardy, Mo
Edwards, Mhairi Ellis, David Buxton and James Evans.
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2018 May Newsletter
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- St Andrew’s Church Hasketon, Suffolk.
- I am delighted to welcome two newmembers to the society, namely
KatherineMalin from Stoke Albany and Judith Finfrom Newton.
- Correspondence from Joanna Comer,Heather Flack, Patricia
Croxton-Smith,Graham Jones and Mike Brintley.
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2018 April Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Ruxley, Kent.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Pat Cocks, Gail Rogers, Sandra
Marjanovic, Vincent Williams and David Baker as new members.
- Correspondence from Patricia Croxton-Smith, Paul Kemsley and
Kathleen Tyson.
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2018 March Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Stow Longa, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Christine Hayes, Dorothy
Halfhide and Michael Bintley to membership of the society.
- Correspondence from Dorothy Halfhide, AnnePegg, Phillip Buttolph,
Andree Sladden, Patricia Croxton-Smith, Sue Jones, Peter Holliday and
Robert Walker.
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2018 February Newsletter |
- The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Botolph, Thorney,
Cambridgeshire.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome John Bartlett from
Thorney and David Noble from Folkestone as new members.
- Correspondence from Patricia Croxton- Smith, Marcia Barton,
Phillip Buttolph, Arch Horst, Emma Rose Barber and Joan Blows.
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2018 January
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Beauchamp Roding, plus short features on
Theydon Bois and Buttsbury - all in Essex.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Wendy MacBrown (Folkestone) as
a new member.
- Correspondence from John Sennett (Swyncombe); Michael Stainer
(Folkestone); Anne Dickinson (Burton Hastings) and Paul, Diane and
Jackie.
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2017 December
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Heene, West Sussex.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following members: Matthew
Harffy (Wiltshire), Father Robert Godding (Société des Bollandistes,
Brussels).
- Correspondence from Duncan Hopkin, Peter Van Demark, Carole Kner,
Hannah Weisman and Matthew Harffy.
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2017 November
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Frosterley, Durham.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following members who
joined the society during my lecture tour of Saint Botolph’s American
home, Boston Massachusetts:
FROM BOSTON (USA): Sean Kelly, Priscilla
Deck, William Taylor, Jeremy & Amy de Rham, Arch Horst, Lisa Connors,
Mark Churchill, Ruth Carey, Timothy Carey, Michael Halperson, Colby
Andrus, Alice Andrus, Frederick Meyer, Rev Dr Howard Hunter, Jean
Gibran, Wendy Hale.
FROM BURLINGTON (USA): John Tuccardi, Susan
Stewart, Christine McCarthy, Albert Fay, Daniel Brenneke, Beverlee
Vidoli, Paul Mitchell, Roger Bell, Don Bernstein, Rose Minitex.
FROM
CHELSEA (USA): David Mindlin, Mitch Michaud, Bill Zamparelli, Maureen
Foley, Sue Gallant, Jeannette McWilliams, Douglas Mauch, Rick Cernow,
Joseph Panetta.
FROM DEVIZES (UK) Mo and Mike Edwards.
- Correspondence from Judith Everitt, Anne Dickinson, Heather
Flack, Revd Mary Sokanovic, Jane Wheeler, Mo Edwards, Guy Hartfall and
Paul Kemsley.
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2017 October
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Bale, Norfolk.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Marcia Barton from St
Botolph’s Church, Chevening in Kent as a new member.
- Correspondence from Revd Roger Smith, John Sennett and Guy Hartfall.
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2017 September
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Botesdale, Suffolk.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Father Stephen Anderson (Priest-in-charge at St Botolph’s Cambridge);
Jackie Didymus from St Botolph’s Church at Heene in Sussex.
- Correspondence from Peter van Demark, Giles Clapp, John McConnell,
Ray Theakston, Gillian Machorton and David Gallimore.
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2017 August
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Boston, Lincs.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Harriet and Gustaf Enholm
(from Helsinki) as new members.
- Other than a few emails of good wishes (which I am always
delighted to receive) there has been no significant correspondence this
month.
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2017 July
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Stow Bedon, Norfolk.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome Martyn Lockwood as a new
member.
- Correspondence from John Burnapp, Mhairi Ellis, Jane Davies
and Revd Colin Reed.
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2017 June
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Tuttington, Norfolk.
- Welcome to new members Andra and David Papworth from Tuttington.
- Correspondence from David Gallimore.
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2017 May
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, North Cove, Suffolk.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Revd Jeff Payne (Carlton-in-Cleveland); Natasha Kerrigan (Cheriton;
Andrew Melen (Sibson).
- Correspondence from Anne Dickinson, Revd Lawrence Smith, Terry
Catchpole, Revd Kathy Couchman, Andree Sladden and Heather Flack.
- Please note in your diaries that this year’s Annual luncheon in
Cambridge (venue to be announced) will still be at 12.30 for 1 p.m. but
a few days earlier than usual on: Wednesday 4th
October 2017
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2017 April
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Limpenhoe, Norfolk.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members: Dr
Lesley Hardy (Canterbury); Dr Angela Conyers (Folkestone); Carla Reeks
(Folkestone).
- Correspondence from Graham Jones, Heather Flack, John Sennett,
Emma Rose Barber, Roger Cordey, Rose Doherty and John Burnapp.
- Please note in your diaries that this year’s Annual luncheon in
Cambridge (venue to be announced) will still be at 12.30 for 1 p.m. but
a few days earlier than usual on: Wednesday 4th October
2017
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2017 March
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Morley St Botolph, Norfolk.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Veronica Wall, Marion Dunster and Revd Bob Weldon (all from Folkestone);
Dr Ingrid Dodd and Dr John Stevens (both from the Dover area); Revd
Colin Reed (Morley St Botolph); Leighton Williams (Norwich).
- Correspondence from Janet Havers, Graham Jones, Patricia
Croxton-Smith and Sam Newton.
- Please note in your diaries that this year’s Annual luncheon in
Cambridge (venue to be announced) will still be at 12.30 for 1 p.m. but
a few days earlier than usual on: Wednesday 4th October 2017
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2017 February
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Barford, Norfolk.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Denyse Dawson (Parish Office, Shepshed); Jean Westacott (St Botolph’s
Chevening, Kent); Diana and Norman Ling (Newcastle).
- Correspondence from Tony Connolly, John Sennett, Gillian Machorton,
Jonathon Brackenbury, Linda Clark, Guy Hartfall and Derek Commings.
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2017 January
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Hevingham, Norfolk.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Deirdre Barnes (Hythe, Kent); Linda Clark (Hevingham); Revd Margaret
McPhee (Hevingham); Shirley Mather (Hevingham).
- Correspondence from Revd William Howard, John McConnell, Heather
Flack, Peter Horsefield, Anne Dickinson, Guy Hartfall and Kathleen
Tyson.
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2016 December
Newsletter
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- St Botolph’s church, Westwick, Norfolk.
- It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following new members:
Peter Horsefield from Trunch, Norfolk; Derek Boughton from Elham, Kent;
Bishop Trevor Willmott from Dover; Revd Mark Thomson and Jan and David
Pursell – all from Quarrington, Lincolnshire.
- Correspondence from Revd Sally Hughes, Rose Doherty, Patricia
Croxton-Smith, John Sennett, Roger Howlett, Peter Van Demark and Peter
Horsefield.
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2016 November
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Banningham, Norfolk.
- I am delighted to welcome as new members: the Curator of Saffron
Waldon Museum, Carolyn Wingfield: Revd Gill Calver (Folkestone); Heather
Flack (Worcester) – author of a recently published book on Edmund
Ironside (which I have both read and enjoyed); Rose Doherty (USA -
President, Partnership of Historic Bostons); Dr Hugh Robertson-Ritchie
(Folkestone).
- Correspondence from Bruce Bailey regarding Pevsner
Northamptonshire; William Hunt, the Windsor Herald of Arms.
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2016 October
Newsletter |
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St Botolph’s church, Trunch, Norfolk.
- Welcome to new member Roy Tricker
from Suffolk.
- Correspondence from Roy Tricker.
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2016 September
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Whitton, Suffolk
- Welcome to new members, Frank Mahon (Folkestone), Chris Sanham
(Norwich), Revd Keith Dally (Banningham, Norfolk); Sue Muspratt (Hevingham,
Norfolk), Nick Hartley (Scarning, Norfolk), Saskia Elson (Westwick,
Norfolk); Brigadier Adam and Gillian Gurdon (Burgh, Suffolk); Revd Chris
Norburn (Botesdale, Suffolk): Jill Ridout (Banningham, Norfolk); Betty
and Alan Jackson (Westwick, Norfolk); Ernie and Jean Garland (Trunch,
Norfolk); Judith Everitt (Bale, Norfolk); Janet Havers (Barford,
Norfolk); Roger Cordey (Morely St Botolph, Norfolk); Sid Kettle (Tuttington,
Norfolk); Gillian Machorton (Stow Bedon, Norfolk); Peter and Anji
Sprinks (Folkestone); Michael Brook (Limpenhoe, Norfolk);
- Correspondence from Dr Clive Talbot, Tony Connolly and Graham Jones.
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2016 August
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church Thurleston, Suffolk, including
some details of its link with the church at Whitton.
- Welcome to new members, Michael Lonsdale from Iken. Angela and
Gerald Marjoram from Whitton. Revd Mary Sokanovic from Whitton.
- Correspondence from Marion Peel, Graham Jones, Arnaud Le Fèvre,
Robert Beavis and Christopher Conn.
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2016 July
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Saxilby, Lincolnshire.
- Welcome to new members, Gerry and Brian Dandridge from Hassocks,
Sussex; David Turner, churchwarden of Saxilby; Tom and Diane from Lefkas,
Greece;
- Correspondence from Graham Jones; St Botolph’s Hadstock; Revd Paul
Griffiths; Christopher Micklethwaite and Christopher Whittle …and many
others with St Botolph’s Day greetings.
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2016 June
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Upwell, Norfolk.
- Emails from Father Pachomius: Diarmaid MacCulloch; Revd William
Howard; Revd Paula Griffiths and Mhairi Ellis.
- Please note in your diaries that the Third Annual
Luncheon of the Society will be held at the Hilton Cambridge City Centre
(this is the new name for the same hotel that we have been using for the
past three years) on Wednesday 12 October 2016 at 1230 for 1 p.m.
Your after-dinner speaker this year will be ‘yours truly’ when I shall
be giving a presentation entitled ‘The Riddles of Saint Botolph, his
brother and the Abbey of Icanho.’
- I have felt that the flow of previous Annual
Luncheons has been somewhat disturbed by the way we choose our two
courses. Some people chose starters and main and some chose main and
dessert and others chose to have all three. This year therefore you will
be able to choose to have two courses without dessert or all three
courses. Tea or coffee will be included but drinks will be ordered and
paid for separately. There will be a small service charge included in
the price. I will endeavour to keep the costs down as much as possible –
the hotel tell me they will be able to accommodate us at similar prices
to last year. The hotel is at present preparing new menus and I will
announce these and let you know the costs in the July newsletter.
- I would be grateful however if you would let me know as soon as
possible if you are likely to attend.
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2016 May
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Shingham, Norfolk.
- Welcome to new members: Rosemary and Clive Talbot from Headcorn,
Kent; Paul Bingham from Folkestone; Jenny Croft from Folkestone; Philip
Spencer from Beachamwell; David Mason from Beachamwell. Email addresses
now stand at 293 and membership at about 370.
- Emails from Marion Peel, Guy Hartfall, Father Pachomius, Jean Stone,
Hilary Tolputt, Penny Coggill, Anne Pegg, Chris Conn and Anne Dickinson.
- Please note in your diaries that the Third Annual Luncheon of
the Society will be held in Cambridge on Wednesday 12 October 2016.
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2016
April
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Allerthorpe, Yorks.
- Welcome to new members: Michael Burtonshaw from Folkestone. Email
addresses now stand at 289 and (re-audited) membership at 364).
- Emails from Patricia Croxton-Smith, Colin Potter, Buell Hollister,
Hal Annett and Lyn Stilgoe.
- Please note in your diaries that the Third Annual Luncheon of
the Society will be held in Cambridge on Wednesday 12 October 2016.
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2016 March
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Bossall, Yorks.
- Welcome to new members: Hal and Deborah Annett from Canada; Ian
Butson from Colchester; Lyn Stilgoe from King’s Lynn (both the latter
are from the British Sundial Society); Dr Arnaud LeFèvre of Bayeux,
France; Revd Chris Wingfield from Bossall. Email addresses now stand at
288 and (re-audited) membership at 358).
- Emails from (amongst others) Jim Olson, Joe Bain, Roger Howlett,
Steve Williamson, Ann Pegg, Tony Wood, Arnaud LeFèvre, Patricia Croxton-Smith,
Ray Theakston and ... a telephone conversation with Revd Chris
Wingfield.
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2016 February
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Tottenhill, Norfolk.
- Welcome to new members: Bill Flavell (Folkestone), Beatrice Auger
(Folkestone), Canon Stuart Morris (Tottenhill). Email addresses now
stand at 283 and (re-audited) membership at 356.
- Emails from Patricia Croxton-Smith, Joe Bain, Colin Nicholson and
Duncan Hopkin.
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2016 January
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Horsehouse, North Yorkshire.
- Emails from Revd William Howard, Angela Kemsley, Joanna Comer, John
Sennett, Emma Rose Barber, Graham Jones, Nick Astbury, Arthur Davies,
Christina Dykes and Revd Sam Funnell.
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2015 December
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church, Carlton-in-Cleveland, North Yorkshire.
- Welcome to new members: Michael Stainer (Folkestone); Emma Pepper
(Headmistress St Botolph’s Primary School, Shepshed).
- Emails from Revd Margaret Widdess, Guy Hartfall, Anne Pegg, Phillip
Buttolph and Emma Pepper.
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2015 November
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church Sibson, Leicestershire.
- Welcome to new members: Steve Williamson (Grimston); Arthur Davies
(Colchester); Diane LeMare and Paul Wadey (Heene); Margaret Gornall (Culpho);
Colin Potter and Justin Scale (Pembrokeshire); Chris Francis
(Folkestone). Email addresses now stand at 278 and (re-audited)
membership at 353.
- Emails from. Guy Hartfall re Queen’s foundation & reply from Joanna
Comer. Information from Diane LeMare about the rescue of Heene church.
Correspondence with Graham Jones, Colin Potter and Justin Scale about an
obscure St Botolph’s Chapel in Pembrokeshire.
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2015 October
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake, Leicestershire.
- Welcome to new members: Revd Andrew Richardson (St Botolph’s,
London, Aldgate) who is acting as chaplain whilst Laura Jorgensen is on
maternity leave.
- Emails from Father Pachomius, Joanna and George Comer, Revd David
Murdoch, Michael Hale, Peter Van Demark and Kathleen Tyson Quah.
- IT IS STILL NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN US FOR THE SOSB ANNUAL
LUNCHEON ON TUESDAY 13th OCTOBER 2015 AT THE CAMBRIDGE CITY HOTEL
AT 12.30 for 1 p.m. at £25 which includes two courses and tea or coffee.
FINAL CLOSING DATE Saturday 3 October.
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2015 September
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Shepshed, Leics.
- Welcome to new members: Revd Linda Shipp (St Botolph’s
Carlton-in-Cleveland); Richard Daniels (Folkestone); Lynn Graham; Ray
Broom (Church with Chapel Brampton); Revd Celia Cook (newly-appointed
vicar at Culpho); Nigel North and his mother Joan (Folkestone); Helen
and Richard Monk (Folkestone - Many years ago they were married at St
Botolph’s church Chevening, Kent). Our numbers are still gradually
rising and we now have 272 email addresses on our list and this
represents over 420 members.
- Welcome to a NEWLY-DISCOVERED BOTOLPH CHURCH - (it is not often we
have one of these) - but I have found evidence of a St Botolph’s chapel
AND another Botolph’s Bridge - both at Bury St Edmunds.
- SOSB ANNUAL LUNCHEON ON TUESDAY 13th OCTOBER 2015 AT THE
CAMBRIDGE CITY HOTEL AT 12.30 for 1 p.m. at £25 per head which includes
two courses and tea or coffee. PLEASE JOIN US IF YOU CAN - PLACES ARE
STILL AVAILABLE.
- A separate email will be sent to the ‘Annual Luncheoners’ shortly.
- I can now announce that the speaker at our luncheon will be Derek
Cummings who will be talking on the ‘Mystery of the Sanctuary Seeker’.
- Following the luncheon, Derek has kindly organised the services of a
Blue Badge Guide (Sue Payne) who will be taking us on a brief tour of St
Botolph’s and St Bene’t’s churches.
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2015 August
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church Newbold-on-Avon, Warwickshire.
- Emails from Tony Wood, Jean Stone, Aaron Friar, Mark Tattum-Smith,
Anne Dickinson and Kathleen Tyson.
- SOSB ANNUAL LUNCHEON ON TUESDAY 13th OCTOBER 2015 AT THE
CAMBRIDGE CITY HOTEL AT 12.30 for 1 p.m. I have negotiated a price of
£25 which includes two courses and tea or coffee.
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2015 July
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s church Burton Hastings.
- I am delighted to welcome a new member Molly Kady from Nash in
Buckinghamshire, who found us ‘on the web’.
- Emails from Dick Pascoe, Duncan Hopkin, John Sennett, Mary Jackson,
Patricia Croxton-Smith, Kathleen Tyson, Lorna Brabin-Smith and Peter
Coleman.
- SOSB ANNUAL LUNCHEON ON TUESDAY 13th OCTOBER 2015 AT THE
CAMBRIDGE CITY HOTEL AT 12.30 for 1 p.m. I have negotiated a price of
£25 which includes two courses and tea or coffee. There will be an
after-luncheon speaker. Please contact me and let me know that you are
coming to join us.
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2015 June
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s at Church with Chapel Brampton, Northants.
- I am delighted to welcome new members Christopher and Jeannie
Esdaile from St Botolph’s Church, Hardham, West Sussex.
- Emails from John Sennett, Kathleen Tyson Quah and Mark Tattum-Smith
together with many helpful indications of likely attendance at the ...
- SOSB ANNUAL LUNCHEON ON TUESDAY 13th OCTOBER 2015 AT THE
CAMBRIDGE CITY HOTEL AT 12.30 for 1 p.m. (Thanks to Marion Peel and Rob
who pointed out that I had the date correct but the day wrong in the
last issue).
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2015 May
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Slapton.
- I am delighted to welcome as new members, Tony Wood (of the British
Sundial Society) and John MacIntosh from Slapton.
- Emails from Peter van Demark, Derek Cummings and Guy Hartfall
- DATE FOR ANNUAL LUNCHEON IN CAMBRIDGE: TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER
2015.
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2015 April
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Knottingley, Yorks.
- I am delighted to welcome the following new members: Revd Lorna
Brabin-Smith and Beryl Preston (Vicar and Churchwarden from
Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake); Sigrid Duly (Sandgate, Kent); Andrew Young,
Stuart and Amanda Bell, Linda Humphreys and Barbara Smith (all from
Slapton, Northants); Joan and Roger Moreton (Sibson, Leics.); Revd Dr Ed
Bampton (Shepshed, Leics.). This brings our total email numbers to 265
which represents a membership of over 400.
- Emails from Father Pachomius, Graham Jones, John Sennett.
- Please Note: This year’s Annual Luncheon will be held at the
Cambridge City Hotel at 12.30 for 1 p.m. on TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER
2015.
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2015
March
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- St Botolph’s Church, Lullingstone.
- Welcome to new members: George & Sue Vittay (Charing, Kent), Valerie
Sadler (Coggeshall, Essex), Dorothy Latham (Dymchurch, Kent).
- Readers’ emails from Tony Connolly and Dick Pascoe.
- Dates of my proposed visits to Ratcliffe, Shepshed, Sibson, Burton
Hastings, Newbold, CwC Brampton and Slapton.
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2015 February
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Chevening.
- Welcome to new members: Caroline Coke from St Botolph’s Church,
Slapton, and Peter Jackson from St Botolph’s Church, Barton Seagrave.
- Readers’ emails from James Harris, Kathleen Tyson Quah, Derek
Cummings Robert Beavis and Caroline Coke, together with a host of kind
greetings.
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2015 January
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Colchester.
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2014 November
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Burgh.
- Welcome to our new members: David and Ronnie Gallimore.
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2014 October
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Culpho.
- Welcome to new members: Dr John and Mrs Juliet Broadfield. Edward
and Sylvia Robertson.
- The Annual Luncheon of the society will be held at 12.30 for 1 p.m.
on Tuesday 14th October at Cambridge City Hotel. If you have not already
booked then I am afraid you are too late this year but mark mid-October
in your diary ready for next year. The final number this year was an
excellent 29.
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2014 September
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Iken
- Welcome to new members: James Harris, Kenneth Crofton Martin, Dawn
Hopley, Claire Down, Tim and Heidi Monsour, Tom and Jen Monsour, John
Haydon and Pamela Mason.
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2014 August
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Farnborough.
- Letter and photographs from Peter Van Demark and The
Saint Botolph’s Club, Boston USA.
- Welcome to Tony Connolly, John Burnapp, Frances
Melville-Brown and William Hartfall.
- FOR YOUR DIARIES NOW PLEASE Tuesday 14th October
2014 at Cambridge City Hotel, Cambridge, 12.30 for 1 p.m. SOSB Annual
Luncheon.
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2014 July
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Croxton Kerrial.
- Correspondence and article from Peter Coleman,
Boston, Lincs.
- Email from Graham Jones answering most of the
questions about Wardley.
- Thanks to Angélique’s hard work the map of St Botolph
churches on the www.botolph.info website is now working properly again.
- Volume II of my Botolph Trilogy (Brother Botolph and
The Abbess) will be launched on 9th August at 11 a.m. at The
Grand Hotel, The Leas, Folkestone where all from SOSB and their friends
are invited to join us for ‘drinks and nibbles’. For catering purposes
please send a short email
here
by 2nd
August to let me know you are coming.
- Please note the change of date of the Annual Luncheon which is
now on TUESDAY 14 October 2014 and will be held at the Cambridge City
Hotel at 12.30 for 1 p.m.
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2014 June
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Wardley.
- Correspondence from Jean Stone, Jane Davies, Peter
Van Demark, Robin Betser, Mark Tattum-Smith and Peter Buttle.
- Welcome to Christopher Whittle, Rowena Bass, Adrian
and Anna Biggs and Fiona Russell-Perry.
- Annual Luncheon 15 October 2014.
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2014 May
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Aspley Guise, Beds.
- Correspondence from Dick Pascoe, Revd Dr James Olson,
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Joe Bain and Peter Van Demark.
- Welcome to 9 new members.
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2014 April
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Bradenham.
- Correspondence from Jean Stone, Emma Rose Barber,
Derek Cummings, John Sennett and Roger Howlett as well as other emails
of greeting and support.
- R.C.Beavis’s article on ‘Barber’s Point’.
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2014 March
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Grimston, Norfolk.
- Botolph and the two princesses.
- Correspondence from Patricia Croxton-Smith, Ann Levy, John Sennett,
Simon Schanschieff, Emma Rose Barber and Robert Beavis.
- Thanks to Nigel Lacey and David Noy.
- Welcome to 4 new members.
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2014 February
Newsletter |
- St Botolph’s Church, Eastwick, Herts.
- The people Botolph might have met in Francia.
- Correspondence from David Noy, William Howard, Dick Pascoe, Robert
Beavis, Jean Stone and Robin Betser.
- Welcome to 5 new members.
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2014 January
Newsletter |
- Christmas activities.
- The bad news of the Boston, Lincolnshire flood and
the good news that a new Team Rector will be installed in February.
- St Botolph's Church, Swyncombe.
- Botolph's destination in France.
- Correspondence from Alex Pavitt, Jean Mableson,
Alison Boreham, Joe Bain and Christopher Micklethwaite.
- Welcome to 13 new members.
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2013 December
Newsletter |
- St Botolph's Church, Quarrington
- Medieval Cross-Channel travel
- Welcome to new members
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2013 November
Newsletter |
- St. Botolph's Northfleet
- First Annual Luncheon
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2013 October
Newsletter |
- St. Botolph's Cambridge
- The mystery of six missing years
- Email from Patricia Croxton-Smith
- The 9th October Annual Luncheon
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2013 September
Newsletter |
- St. Botolph's Church, Skidbrooke
- Letters from Revd Diane Gardiner, Peter Van Demark
and Aaron Friar
- Saint Botolph's entry into monastic life
- We still have space for you to attend the first Annual
Luncheon on 9th October
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2013 August Newsletter |
- St. Botolph's Church, Botolphs W. Sussex
- Letters from Father Pachomius, Simon Knott, Father Lawrence Smith,
Father David Murdoch, Mark Tattum-Smith, Jean Mableson and Revd Nigel
Lacey
- Saint Botolph's childhood
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2013 July Newsletter |
- Hardham Church, West Sussex
- Icons of Saint Botolph
- The solution to the Great Eversden Mystery
- Letters from Allerthorpe and Lincoln
- Letter from an amateur woodworker and blacksmith in the USA
- Luncheon 9th October 2013, Cambridge with speaker: Dr Graham Jones
- Letters from Boston, Massachusetts
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2013 June Newsletter |
- Barton Seagrave
Church
- 17 June 2013 Saint Botolph's Day
- Article from Boston Massachusetts
- Great Eversden mystery
- Shotesham discovery
- Luncheon, Cambridge, 9 Oct 13
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2013 May Newsletter |
- Focus on Botolph - His London Churches
- Church Feature - Bishopsgate
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2013 April Newsletter |
- Welcome to the first issue of 'The
Boltophian'
- Feature on St. Botolph's Church, Hadstock, Essex
- From what source does the name 'Botolph' come?
- The annual Luncheon: How about Wednesday 9th October 2013?
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