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Witleys Churches Fete Sept 2006

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The Witleys Churches Fete

Both Great Witley and Little Witley church are set in the most beautiful countryside and each year the Fete gives us a taste of rural England at its best...

We had a splendid day for our Fete on September 9th. The sun shone, the crowds poured in
and a good time was had by all. Thanks to the extremely hard work of our dedicated team of helpers, the day was a tremendous success, raising approximately £5000 .

The bric-a-brac stall 

Nick Birkmyre ( in the hat) helping to set up the Silent Auction.
Nick is one of the mainstays of the show and does a phenomenal amount of work, not to mention storing all the tents on his farm all year and then bringing them on his tractor before organising the team to erect everything.

 

There was an excellent produce show, many, many stalls with exciting things to buy, lots of games for the youngsters and some for the not so young! There were children’s races, a Mum’s egg and spoon race and an exciting inter-village Tug-of –War (which Abberley won). Every taste was catered for with food ranging from mouthwatering hot pork sandwiches to delicious home made cakes.

 

Produce Show - there was a really good entry this year and Mrs.Irene Johnson worked hard to display all of it before the show started.

 

Helen Nasmyth Shaw, Veronica Ashley of Little Witley and Christine Drew, also of Little Witley, setting up the Tombola Stall

Inter Village Tug of War competition which Abberley won.

 

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Britain's finest Baroque Church.  St. Michael and All Angels Church, Great Witley,  A443 Worcester - Tenbury Wells road, 10 miles north-west of Worcester.    As the parish church for the villages of Great Witley and Little Witley  it is used regularly for services and concerts. The church is open to visitors daily. The church, now almost fully restored, displays a splendour which is unique amongst country churches in Britain, with exquisite gilded decorations throughout, numerous paintings by Antonio Bellucci, ten painted glass windows depicting scenes from the New Testament, highly decorative carving and a large monument by Rysbrack. It also has a fine organ, its case being from the instrument on which Handel played.   Many musicians consider its acoustics for music to be as fine as any building of its size outside London