A Nice Place To Be
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6th June this year has huge significance. It’s the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings a tipping point in the Second World War. Here in Adderley we will be remembering and we will be celebrating this historic occasion.
Saturday 8th June, come as you are OR come as you would in the 1940’s (time for some of us to delve into the bottom of the trunk) and join us in Adderley Village Hall for supper, live music and celebration. Details below.
Despite cold and wet conditions the signs for the Adderley Heritage Trail were installed yesterday. This means people can walk the trail in full or in part from today. Tomorrow, Saturday 27th we will be doing the official launch at 11:00 with a chance to meet Geoff Butter and a chance to look at some of the history of Adderley.
Coming Tomorrow? We anticipate a number of visitors to the Village Hall so if it’s possible for you to walk please do and free up some parking spaces at the hall. You can view the exhibition any time between 11:00 and 14:00.
Read about the new trail here:
St Peter’s Church Adderley
presents a musical evening
with
Fauls Singers
held in the beautifully acoustic
redundant section of
St Peter’s Church, Adderley
Saturday 18th May 2024
commencing 7.00pm
Tickets £10.00/£5 under 18’s
including wine & nibbles
contact Andrew 01630 657268
As you know Adderley has been fortunate enough to receive a grant from Heritage Lottery Fund to save a valuable collection of archive material capturing the history of Adderley back as far as 1066. This collection has been created by Geoff Butter who grew up in Adderley and loves the history of our village.
Next Saturday 27th April at 11.00 am there will be an official launch of the Adderley Heritage Trail and another chance to view even more of the materials and history of our lovely village. The event will be open to people to drop in until 2.00 pm so plenty of time for everyone. A light buffet will be provided. The event will be in the village hall, and everyone in the village has had an invitation as well as a large number of ex residents.
The response has been overwhelming with replies from people in and outside the village, and the hall is going to be packed with people helping us to celebrate the achievement of the Trail and the website which allows everyone to see the vast collection. You will also be able to hear what is still left to do.
A whole host of new material is being brought to the hall next Saturday by these visitors which will enable us to add it to this wonderful collection.
If you haven’t looked at the heritage website yet, you can find it here: www.adderleyheritage.co.uk
You may know that residents in the Shropshire Council area will need to show photo ID to vote in the West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner(PCC) election on Thursday 2 May.
This will also be the case for the next general election, for the local elections in May 2025, and for any future by-elections.
Ahead of the PCC election we’re reminding residents to make sure they are ready to vote by checking they have an accepted form of ID – and we ask that you help to get this important message out to people in your area if you can.
To help you do so, we’ve attached two social media graphics and two posters (A4 and A3 size) for you to use.
Anyone voting at a polling station will need to show photo ID before they can be given their ballot paper. It’s important that everyone understands what types of ID they can use, and how to apply for free ID if they need it.
Accepted forms of ID include a UK, European Economic Area (EEA) or Commonwealth passport or drivers’ licence; and some concessionary travel passes, such as an older person’s bus pass or an Oyster 60+ card. Voters will be able to use expired ID if they are still recognisable from the photo.
Anyone who does not have one of the accepted forms of ID will be able to apply for free ID online at www.voter-authority-certificate.service.gov.uk/ [1] or by completing a paper form.
The full list of accepted ID is available on the Electoral Commission’s website, along with more information about the new requirement and details of how to apply for the free ID, at electoralcommission.org.uk/voterID.
To apply for the Voter Authority Certificate, voters will need to provide a photo, full name, date of birth, the address at which they are registered to vote and their National Insurance number. The deadline to apply is 24 April.
If you have any questions please email our elections team –
Saturday night gave us a taste extravaganza at Adderley Village Hall. Four courses of amazing Italian Food served by an amazing young serving team and prepared by guest chef Harry Wilson.
Everyone was greeted with a glass of Prosecco and then Rachel from Nomad Wines in Market Drayton introduced a range of delicious wines to people to buy and have with their meal.
Our Italian guests at the Italian Gourmet evening commented that they were presented with exquisitely presented dishes that tasted wonderful and were fabulous in every way. Well done chef and the team of volunteers who made us feel very well looked after.
While everybody enjoyed antipasti served with homemade Caponata and locally sourced wild garlic pesto Chef Harry prepared a starter of ravioli with either lamb and tarragon or butternut squash. Next we moved on to a choice of wild mushroom risotto or gnocchi in a pizzaiola sauce served with sirloin steak on a bed of celeriac purée . While people washed this down with the excellent Nomad wines the kitchen summoned up a trio of deserts and the meal finished with coffees (or tea for those who preferred it)
thank you so much for organising the Italian evening. We all really enjoyed ourselves and the food was excellent. Such a lovely sociable evening and great atmosphere too.
This was a great evening and we hope we can look forwards to something else in a similar vein in the future. Many thanks to everybody who came and had a great time and also to the volunteers to supported chef in prepping and serving food not to mention washing up until the wee small hours.
Just to say many thanks for such a lovely Italian 🇮🇹 evening last night. The food was amazing and you all looked after us very well 🥂🍷. The young ones were a credit to you.
Spring is sprung the grass is riz
I wonder where the sunshine is?
Well Peter Bruty found some this weekend and he’s sent them to us to add some Springtime cheer. He’s also started off the 2024 Adderley Galleries. If you have some images of Adderley to share then send them to us at webmaster@adderleyparish.co.uk.
Click below to see the latest pictures
At the last coffee morning we talked about the next one and people felt that as it was Easter there wouldn’t be so many folk around and besides they would be eating their Easter eggs. So, no coffee morning on the 30th so we’ll have to save all of the news until April, when there’s a very special event so save the date and see you there.
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