DILWYN (From Hereford Times)

DILWYN

11:00am Monday 5th January 2009 in Dilwyn

RADNOR AND WEST-The Annual meeting of the Radnor and West Herefordshire Hunt took place on New Years Day outside the Crown Inn. Chairman, Henry Marfell was flanked by a strong turn-out despite the ground being too hard to ride out. Joint Master Robert Jones was jubilant to see some two hundred supporters crowd in to the village centre.

NEW YEAR LUNCH-The North Herefordshire Conservative Association Golden Cross with Weobley Branch Annual New Year Lunch will take place at the Burghill Valley Golf Club, near Weobley, on Friday 6th February. Please book now to avoid disappointment. To select your menu and purchase tickets (£16.50 each), please contact either Peter Lippitt (1544 318597) or Brenda Havard (01544 318727).

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL-The PCC will meet on Thursday 15th January in the Cedar Hall at 7.30pm.

HISTORY CAPSULE-It is the tradition in Dilwyn that carols are sung on the village green during the week before Christmas, lead by St Mary’s church choir and accompanied by the Dilwyn Brass players. Children from the village school sang enthusiastically knowing that a job well done was to be rewarded with a visit from Santa Clause. The occasion is used to open just once a year, the Dilwyn History Capsule buried on the village green. Documents deposited this year included a Peter Mander’s caricature of Dilwyn Mothers’ Union members that had been published in the Hereford Times; photographs taken at village school activities and a copy of the history of the Dilwyn branch of the Royal British Legion published in commemoration of their 80th anniversary.