Community Carol Service at St James’ Church in Hindpool

Everybody welcome! Please come along and enjoy a service with all your favourite Christmas carols.

St James Christmas Craft Fair

Come and join us between 11am and 2pm on Saturday 30th November for our Christmas fair with all kinds of stalls – crafts and gift ideas to food and prizes, and opportunities to tour the tower and ring a bell (up in the tower) and the new ‘Wombel’ (one-bell) simulator at ground floor level.

There’s something for everyone!

Thank you folks, you’re amazing…. we have raised over £1,000 for BBC Children in Need. https://www.justgiving.com/page/a-peal-for-pudsey and there’s still an opportunity for it to increase further until the end of the month!

Bellringers from Cumbrian towers (Barrow, Dalton and Ambleside), Lancashire towers (Kirkby Lonsdale, Bamber Bridge, Nelson) and Yorkshire towers (Pontefract, and Leeds Cathedral) converged on the Parish Church of St Lawrence and St Paul in Pudsey near Bradford/Leeds, leaving as early as 7.15am to get to the church for the 10.30 start.

Pudsey bear cuddly toy watched over us as we rang the bells.

The peal attempt was supposed to take 3 hours, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful after a mistake about 30 or 40 minutes into the peal, and a subsequent quarter peal attempt came undone (literally) when the rope of the heaviest (tenor) bell unravelled its tucks about half way through and an extra metre of rope was whipping around, forcing us to abort the attempt for the safety of the tenor ringer.

The ringing was going really well otherwise and the bells sounded great while it lasted.

Photos from the day are included above, along with videos from outside Pudsey church, and a recording of us practising the first two leads before we started the peal, that we rang to send in to BBC Northwest Tonight (who included a 12 second clip later in the 6.30pm news bulletin … without the sound of the bells at 20:18 into the programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/north-west-tonight-evening-news…).

We will have another attempt to successfully ring the peal sometime over the next 12 months, but probably closer to home at St James in Barrow, or another tower in Furness & South Lakeland such as Kirkby-in-Furness or Flookburgh.

Once again, thank you to everyone who donated and wished us luck.

Our tower captain Andy Pollock has organised a full 3 hour peal of a bellringing method called “Pudsey Surprise Major” for BBC Children in Need. It is quite a complicated pattern, and this will be the first time Andy has rung a peal of this particular method. Our young ringer Jayden Milby is also taking part, and other ringers will be converging from Ambleside, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Yorkshire.

The Peal will take place at St Lawrence and St Paul’s church in Pudsey (near Bradford/Leeds) on the morning of BBC’s Children in Need starting 10.30am on Friday 15th November, and won’t finish until after 1.30pm!

Ringing a peal is a really challenging task, and we really want this to be a success for Children in Need, so we would welcome your support in prayers for both a successful peal, and for money raised to reach or surpass the target of £500.

If anyone would like to make a donation that would be wonderful too. The fundraising page for online donations in support of the Peal is given below, with all proceeds going to BBC Children in Need.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/a-peal-for-pudsey

I include a picture of the Pudsey Surprise Major pattern that we will be ringing:

We’ve gone all high-tech to help make donating to St James easier. From this week we’ll be able to take card payments for your donations! 

Can’t get into church at the moment, but still want to make a donation?

Follow this link St James ‘MyGiving Online’ Web Link or use your smartphone camera to scan the following QR Code to make a one-off secure payment.

Monday 7th October 2024

The Carey Room was full for an evening of food and entertainment with Pie and Peas followed by a variety of Desserts, and thanks to everyone who contributed to the puddings, and worked in the kitchen preparing food and of course washing & drying the pots (and there were a lot!)

Thanks also go to Shelagh who produced some multiple choice questions to keep everyone occupied while we ate and chatted, and then followed with a quiz. Well done all the winners.

The Harvest Supper raised £168 (plus gift aid on much of this). A very enjoyable evening.

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Here is a sample of one of the multi choice question sheets:

1. What is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?

Nitrogen                             Oxygen                                Carbon Dioxide               Helium

2. What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?

Sardinia                              Corsica                               Sicily                                    Monaco

3. Name the English Premier League football club that carries the motto “Superbia in Proelio” or “Pride in Battle”?

Arsenal                Manchester City             Aston Villa                         Everton

4. What is the capital city of Peru?

Lima                                     San Juan                             Santiago                             Havana

5. Who was the first man to reach the South Pole?

Robert Falcon Scott      Edmund Hillary               Roald Amundsen            Tom Creen

6. Which of the Canary Islands is the largest and most populous?

Gran Canaria                    Lanzarote                           La Palma                            Tenerife

7. Which colour is the most common on the national flags of the world, featuring on 75% of national flags?

White                                   Green                                   Blue                                      Red

8. Name Hermoine’s cat in the “Harry Potter” series of books and movies?

Snowball                            Ginger                                  Crookshanks                    Granger

9. Which actor was the first female to be paid $1million dollars for a role?

Elizabeth Taylor               Judi Dench         Sandra Bullock                Audrey Hepburn

10. What was the surname of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Jack, in “Titanic”?

Dawson                               Smith                                   O’Leary                               Lynch

11. Which of these companies was formed first?

Google                 Bing                       Netflix                 Facebook

12. Name the only nation to appear at every single FIFA World Cup?

France                                 Brazil                                    Spain                                    Germany

13. “The Muppets” character, Animal, plays which instrument?

Drums                  Saxophone                        Trumpet                              Electric Guitar

14. In what type of role did Oprah Winfrey make her first 1970s TV appearance?

Talk Show Host                Actress                Producer                            News Anchor

15. Who was the 1st cartoon given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

Mickey Mouse                  Simba                                  Donald Duck                     Pop Eye

16. Which country produced the most F1 World Championship winning drivers?

Italy                                       Spain                                    Germany                            UK

17. Who was the oldest woman to win a Wimbledon Championship?

Martina Navratilova      Betty White       Serena Williams             Martina Hingis

18. Name the English actor who won the 2014 Oscar for Best Actor, for his role in “The Theory of Everything”?

Eddie Redmayne                Colin Firth             Tom Hiddlestone                 Benedict Cumberbatch

19. What type of rock is marble?

Granite                                Sedimentary                    Igneous               Metamorphic

20. What type of animal is Timon, in “The Lion King”?

Warthog                              Meerkat                              Orangutan         Sloth

The Garden Party for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022 is almost upon us!

Preceded buy Bellringing to Celebrate the Jubilee from 1pm to 2pm

The notable organ at St James is in urgent need of essential repair with a need to raise £5000 to cover the costs of the repairs.

A crowdfunding page continues to invite donations and has raised almost £1,000 so far (at the start of December 2021)

BAE Systems have just informed us of their marvellous and very generous decision as part of their community investment programme in the year of the Shipyard’s 150th anniversary to contribute £1,500 toward the repair of St James’ organ!

This will take the fundraising to almost 50% of the target for repair to this nationally significant church organ, to preserve it in working order for the benefit of our communities to enjoy for years to come.

We would like to invite and welcome you to our services and events over the Christmas Period.

Events

Christmas Fair
Saturday 4th December between 11am and 2pm
The St James’ Church annual Christmas Fair, with the famous cake stall, raffle, tombola, craft stalls. Hot lunches available.
Christmas Music including the Dalton Town band from 12.30 – 13:15.
Father Christmas will be in attendance from 11am to 1pm. All welcome

‘Christmas Magic‘
Thursday 9th December at 7.30pm
Voce and Special Guests bring you a concert of “Christmas Magic” at St James.
Tickets £10 available on the door which open at 7pm

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Services

There will be the usual Sunday services throughout Advent

Tuesday 14th December (6.30pm)	Carol Service with “Brightly Dawns Our Christmas Day” – A Gilbert & Sullivan Nativity at St James
Friday 24th December (4pm)	Christmas Eve Crib Service for parents with toddlers and young children.
Friday 24th December (11.30pm)	Midnight Mass & Blessing of the Crib at St James Traditional Eucharist with carols and candlelight.
Saturday 25th December (10.30am)	Christmas Day Service will be held at St Francis Family Communion – a shortened act of worship for all ages
Sunday 26th December (10.30am)	Boxing Day Joint Team Eucharist at St James

St James – Sunday 25th July 2021 (ringing approx. 9.30 to 10.30am)

A quarter peal will be attempted on the bells at St James for Service on Sunday 25th July for

Patronal Festival of St James
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_the_Great)

and also to mark the

150th year of the Shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness
(https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/barrow-in-furness)

And finally to congratulate Phoebe (bellringer in this quarter peal and Goddaughter of tower captain Andy) who has just graduated with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Project Management.