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EVENING DROP-INS FOR BEREAVED PEOPLE
The evening drop-ins are continuing during the summer months. If you would like to meet with other bereaved people, please come to the Hardwick Room in the United Reformed Church between 7.30pm and 9pm on the first Wednesday of the month
(1st June, 6th July, 3rd August and 7th September). Members of the Ickenham Churches' Pastoral Support Group will be pleased to see you.
ST GILES’ CHURCH MONTHLY STREET PRAYER LIST
Each week at St Giles’ Church we pray for all the people who live or work in a particular road in the parish. During June we will pray for the following roads: June 5th - Wallasey Crescent. 12th - Warren Road. 19th -Willowtree Close. 26th - Woodstock Drive.
If you live in one of these roads why not join us at our 8.0 a.m. or 9.45 a.m. services. You will most welcome.
THANKS TO H.F.H.S.
St. Giles’ Church wishes to thank Hillingdon Family History Society for its most generous gift of three Compact Discs. These discs contain details from St Giles’ Parish Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials for the period 1538-1877.
Anyone wishing to purchase any of these CDROMs at £5.50 each should contact H.F.H.S. Secretary Patricia Reynolds 01895 44442 or see forthcoming Events section for dates of Society meetings and Research Room details. www.hfhs.co.uk
ICKENHAM CHURCHES HOLIDAY CLUB 2005
ADVANCED NOTICE: PLEASE NOTE THESE DATES
Holiday Club is open to all Ickenham children aged 7-11 (those now in school years 2-6.) Come along and join the usual fun from Monday 25th July - Friday 29th July, with Grand Finale 7 p.m. Friday 29th July in the Rectory Garden. Registration for this will be after school on Friday 15th July at the U. R. C.
Enquiries: Anne Whitlam 01895 678169 or Diana May 01895 234813
It will all be happening on the URC forecourt on Saturday 11th June from 10 a.m. until 12.30 p.m.! Stalls will include Cakes/Preserves, Plants, Books, CDs/Records/Tapes and Toys/Games. There'll be sideshows too and refreshments will be available. Entrance is FREE! If you can donate any of these items or want more details, please contact Richard Piper on 01895 634348, richardjpiper@btopenworld.com
THANK YOU DILYS
Presentation to Dilys Ashworth
 On Saturday 16th April in the St Giles' Church Hall during the Junior Church Coffee Morning, a 'thank you' card was presented to Dilys Ashworth.
For over 30 years Dilys came to the Junior Church once or twice a month on Sundays mornings to accompany the children on the piano while they sang songs and choruses. Following Dilys' recent decision to retire, the children made a large card in the shape of a piano on which they wrote their thanks and decorated with lines of music.
Dilys has since told the children that she has enjoyed playing the tune they composed. The Junior Church leaders greatly appreciate Dilys' dedication during so many years.
If you want all the latest details about both St Giles’ and the United Reformed Church, are you aware that both operate independent websites? You can access these easily by logging on to www.ickenhamchurchnews.co.uk and selecting the church you want from the menu bar. In addition there is direct access to Ickenham Online, Ickenham Residents’ Association, Ickenham Festival, Hillingdon Choral Society and Glebe School.
Under Links one can find the Miniature Railway and Tim Noad’s interesting Herald Painter site. Under More there is Brian’s Page and details of our Saints Giles and George.
The St Giles’ site is now displaying, online, its weekly Newsletter as well as a notice board on which you can publish your special events.
There is an archive where one can view Back Issues of ICN, see the latest Christian Festivals for the month, and find out in PhotoNews what the papers say about Ickenham. You can get a huge amount of current Christian news in the section called Church News Service. To access all of these, just search out This Month on the menu bar, which will take you direct to Ickenham Church News magazine online.
How much have you been missing?
Editor
“WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT ICKENHAM” – Competition Runners Up
Last month we published the final winning entries. This month sees the two runners up.
a)
Ickenham has always been a very special place for me. I was born, as were my brother and sister, at 36 WALLASEY CRESCENT and lived there until my marriage 24 years later.
I have many happy memories playing by the River Pinn sailing twigs from one bank to the other, catching tiddlers in jam jars, making camps under the hedges in the fields, playing on the moated island in mock battles.
Happy early Sunday morning walks in the fields with my father in the dew covered grass learning about wild flowers.
Happy days at Breakspear School although some were spent in the tubular shelters singing songs.
Out for a walk with my father when 18 months old I met a little girl the same age at her garden gate and we are still best friends 69 years later.
Also memories, too many to list, make Ickenham a special place.
Patricia Self
b)
“This is Ickenham” said our guide as we reached the end of Long Lane, “this being the village that John Betjeman described in his travels as a pretty little village near Uxbridge.”
How right he was, for, in spite of losing its friendly Garden Centre, amongst other things, there is so much more to commend it.
The first sight to meet the eye, as one arrives from the South, is the lovely St Giles’ Church and the URC on one side, and the old Parish Pump, with its pond, on the other.
Although some of the open fields have now gone, there are many beautiful walks to enjoy, such as Swakeleys Park enhanced by its Country House and lake.
It is inevitable that the world moves on, but Ickenham is fortunate in having a friendly group of shops, banks, chemists, greengrocers, butchers, doctors, etcetera, which makes living here so pleasant.
Stanley Wheeler (aged 95)
NB It was with great sadness that we received the news of Stanley’s passing, and the realisation that he missed reading the publication of this, his final article for ICN.
Editor
STANLEY GEORGE WHEELER
1910 - 2005
 Stanley, aged 95 years, lived his life to the full. He belonged to the Ruislip Bowls Club and Masonic Order.
He never travelled abroad, but did love his train rides to Worthing, Penzance, and many other places.
Stanley suffered a short illness and died from bronchopneumonia on 6th May.
He will be sadly missed.
Kim Liddiard
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