You will need the Official Programme for full details
Saturday 10th June: a) Open air Art Exhibition round the Pond at 9 a.m. b) URC Forecourt Sale at 9.45 a.m. c) A Flower Festival in St Giles’ Church at 10 a.m. d) Rugby Tag Session for boys and girls from 10.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. e) Community Concert for all tastes in the URC at 7 p.m.
Sunday 11th June: a) Festival Opening Service at St Giles’ Church at 9.45 a.m. with visiting preacher
The Revd. Paul Hullyer, Vicar of All Saints Hillingdon. b) Glebe School Summer Fair 1- 4 p.m. Sussex Road
Monday 12th June: a) The Flower Festival continues in St Giles’ Church from 10 a.m. b) Teddy Bears’ Picnic for toddlers and their teddies in Swakeleys House Grounds starting 1 p.m. c) The Society For Disabled Artists Open Afternoon with pictures and refreshments in the Toc H Hut, Community Close from 2 p.m. d) Boys Five-A-Side Football in Glebe School ground from 6 p.m. e) A Local History Walk with Eileen Bowlt from 7.15 p.m. meeting at The Pump.
Tuesday 13th June: a) Conducted Tour of St Giles’ Church beginning at 10 a.m. b) Soup and Sweet Lunch by Inner Wheel of Elthorne at 12 Boniface Road – call 01895 73716 c) Lunchtime Recital by The Douay Martyrs School in St Giles’ Church from 12.45 – 1.45 p.m. d) An Open Rehearsal by U3A singers in St Giles’ Church starting 2.45 – 4.45 p.m. e) Children’s Festival Fun for 5 to 7 year olds in Ickenham Library starting 4.15 – 5 p.m.
Thursday 15th June: Mother’s Union Festival Lunch in St Giles’ Main Church Hall from 12 noon – 1.30 p.m.
Throughout the Week: a) Local Shop decorations to vote for b) A Village Treasure Hunt c) Children’s Art Competition d) Flower Arrangements e) Lunchtime Music in St Giles’ Church f) Local Pubs’ special competitions and promotions.
GALA DAY Saturday 17th June: a) Home Guard (1944) Association invite you to their Club Room on left side of Village Hall at 11 a.m. b) Gala Procession through the Village from 1.30 – 2 p.m. starting from Milton Court. Judging Floats and other categories of entry at 1 p.m. c) All the fun of the Festival in Swakeleys Grounds from 2 p.m. with stalls, sideshows sports, competitions, refreshments, and music d) Music For A Summers Evening with Fireworks beginning 7.45 p.m.
Sunday 18th June: a) 40 minute Open Air Festival Service for all ages in Swakeleys Grounds starting 11.15 a.m. See insert note. b) Family Cycle Ride from ‘Bikewise’ beginning at 2 p.m.
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escendants of a former churchwarden of St Giles’ Church contacted ICN, recently, about a rare Bible they had found in their Devon attic. Alan Greenwood Burr was in office during the 1930s and, earlier than this, his father had bought from the Church a disused Bible that had been in regular service there for 140 years. It turned out that this was a 1717 James Basket ‘Vinegar’ Bible so called because one of its many misprints called the parable of the vineyard, the parable of the vinegar. The Bible was presented to St Giles’ Church in 1734 by the then Squire of Swakeleys who was the famous Sir Robert Vyner. An inscription, on its flyleaf, authenticates its provenance. The Bible went to auction, during April, with a reserve of £2,000. Mint copies have been known to fetch some £8,500. We still don’t know whether the Bible was sold. Alan’s wife, Eliza Goodyear Burr, presented our current reredos to the church in memory of her mother and the family grave lies alongside the path by the main entrance porch.
