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As you know Geoff Butter, who grew up and lived in Adderley for much of his life has offered the village the most amazing collection of archive materials about the village and its history. He has been collecting this over the last 50 years.    It truly is a vast collection and everyone who has seen it has been rather overwhelmed by the size, richness  and the the diversity of the materials.  Its our history and it would be awful if it was lost to us.

A group of people from the community decided that it would be worth putting in a Heritage Lottery Bid to preserve this collection for future generations.   This has required an immense amount of work over the last year.  We have submitted the bid which includes a Heritage Trail around the points of interest in the community,  (not intruding on private property), digitisation of all the photographs and articles and other documents about our village going back hundreds of years in some cases,  a website which will host copies of all documents to be easily accessible to all and a variety of other proposals which will include as many people as possible in celebrating our history. 

We have pulled together support from all sorts of people and places and if successful in our bid we will be working with them all.   They include Shropshire Archive who will catalogue all the materials and host the most precious and vulnerable artefacts; our school who are very excited to be involved in all sorts of ways, Keele University who hope to support the project with a graduate being involved; The Oral History Society and Storytellers.

Sounds amazing doesn’t it?  However, the bidding process for Heritage Lottery Funding is very very competitive and we have no idea whether our bid will be successful.  The bid is in, the lottery have confirmed receipt and asked us a number of questions for clarification and we now wait for them to consider and tell us.  Yesterday they emailed us to say that this will take up to a month so we have our fingers crossed and hope that it will be a positive response.

If anyone is interested in finding out more please get in touch with webmaster@adderleyparish.co.uk and the information will be passed on.  

We have to say a BIG thank you to everybody who supported the Big Breakfast on Friday morning. Judging by people’s comments it was a big success and a great time was had by all. Good food, and a chance to meet and greet over a full English, tea, toast and marmalade. What’s not to like. We served 106 full English Breakfasts which was pretty good for a first time.

Of course it wouldn’t have happened without the amazing volunteers who were there from 7:00 am to prep the room and cook the amazing breakfasts. Fabulous team work from everybody and a huge thank you.

We must also thank our sponsors without whom this event would not have been possible so many thanks to Morrisons and Asda  in Market Drayton and Shepley’s Family Butchers in Market Drayton who provided the excellent bacon, sausage and Black Pudding which everybody enjoyed. A big thank you as well to Andy and Ann Davis who provided the lovely free range eggs to complete a perfect breakfast.

Goodness Me!   So much to remember but so much fun to be had!

Don’t forget the Jubilee Quiz on Thursday night 2nd June in the village hall – bar will be open, but we would take it carefully,  if you want a chance of winning – you will need your wits about you!  

Then out of bed and up with the lark to sample a Full English Breakfast between 9.00 and 12.00 on Friday 3rd June.  Can’t wait to see you there, families, friends and neighbours,  for your most important meal of the day cooked by someone else!

As if that wasn’t enough at 4.00pm on Saturday 4th June, the Party on the Green.  There will be a barbecue and Crazy Bowls for all  at the Bowling Club, a bouncy castle, a Dog Show, some music and fun for the children, an Its a Knockout competition, an un-rideable bike to challenge those brave enough and ………………. in true Jubilee style we are asking you to bring along your favourite cake or pud to share.  We thought it would be wonderful to ask everyone to bring theirs along with the recipe so that if people enjoy yours, they can copy  the recipe and try and recreate it at home.  So get the oven going, and treat us all to your masterpiece.  We can’t wait!  

Keep an eye open, we will post more details over the next day or so,