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FLOWERS IN PEMBURYSHELIE’S FLOWERSIT IS NOW two years since I opened the florist's Shelie’s Flowers in the High Street,Pembury. I would like to say how pleased I am with the local response and the interestand support given to the shop by local people. Trade is going from strength to strength andI have had some very good feedback from many customers.Now that my family is grown up, I have three children Nicholas 29, Clare 27 and Alison 20and grandchildren as well, I am able to give more time to the shop. However, I couldn’t doit without their support and help. Often they will rally round and do deliveries and assist inthe shop at busy times.Having lived in the village for 14 years, my husband actually moved here as a boy in 1949 –his parents were old Pembury people – I feel I know a lot of the residents very well.Therefore when I realised my ambition to have a florist's shop it was natural to choosePembury for its location. Since completing three years’ floristry training at Hadlow Collegeas a mature student some ten years ago, I had, prior to having the shop kept my hand in byworking in two florists shops locally and by doing weddings and other floristry work fromhome. However, now with the shop going so well, I amable to do a far more varied selection of work fromweddings and funerals, to corporate arrangements forlocal businesses and, of course, special occasions suchas Valentine’s and Mothers’ Days.Shelie GreenFRIENDS WEDDING FLOWERSSOME YEARS ago Betty Perryman and thenagain more recently Mabel Luck thoroughlyenjoyed offering the brides who married in the OldChurch a unique service. The Church was decoratedbeautifully with their wedding flowers and any profit wasdonated to church funds.Sadly, Betty Perryman and Mabel Luck have now been dead forquite some time, but last year a group of us ladies who normallyarrange the flowers for Sunday Services, obtained the Vicar’s permission to start up this ideaagain.Our name is ‘Friends Wedding Flowers’ and we really only exist to offer brides who marryin the Old Church, the option to choose us to decorate the church for their wedding day.One of our ladies, a professional florist, is able to supply all the other wedding flowers,bouquets, button holes etc. This saves time and allows any particular colour scheme to becarried right through to the reception if needed.We have a price list with several different packages and any profit made will be for thebenefit of the Old Church. If any bride who is hoping to marry in the Old Church wouldlike more details, or would like to discuss their requirements, please contact Ann Toler on824071 or Biddy Willson on 822029.18
PEMBURY IN THE PASTThe Village LibraryOUR VILLAGE LIBRARY opened in 1978but do you remember how you got a bookto read before that?There was a mobile library once a week withvarious stopping places, the village was a lotsmaller in those days. The van only held two orthree people at a time, so you had to wait,sometimes in bad weather for your turn.In the 1950s Mr and Mrs Wraike from OldRomford Road started a small library. This wasstocked by a supply of books from the CountyLibrary at Springfield, Maidstone. They onlyopened for two hours on Thursday evening inthe room at the back of the institute. MrsSurridge also used this room in the mornings forher nursery school. Mr and Mrs Wraike werehelped by Mrs Winters who came to the villagein 1951 and became the secretary at PemburyPrimary School in 1953.Mrs Winters took over the library with eightlady volunteers when the Wraikes retired. Theseladies worked on a rota system, three ladies werepresent at any one time. The Curd family fromRomford Road formed the nucleus, these wereFrancis, Joan and Daisy with the occasional helpfrom Daisy’s daughter Susan. The names ofsome of the volunteers were Mrs Sedgewick,Mrs Gill, Mrs Leonard, Mrs Bishop, MrsSprackling, Miss Richardson, Miss Leigh,Mrs Williamson, myself and last, but no meansleast, Rachel Crosland. Rachel became ourlibrarian in the new library which opened in1978. Most of these ladies were someone’sgrandmother and will be remembered.Other people took over the library as time wentby and it is interesting to know that after 22years there are six of the original volunteers stillliving in the village. The library grew out of thedownstairs room at the institute and movedupstairs; this room was larger and people couldstay for a chat with their friends.When the institute was sold in the early 1970s,the library moved into the small hall at theprimary school. This was a great improvementbecause there were no stairs for people to climbor transport all the books up!Every eight weeks a library van came fromSpringfield. This was a busy time. All the bookshad to be sorted to go back and new bookschosen for replacements. Where possible weroped in a boy and a girl to choose the juvenilesection. These boys and girls were generallysome of the volunteers’ grandchildren. Thereaders were always glad to see a fresh selectionto choose from.Mrs Winters ran the library until 1976 when sheretired and moved to Tunbridge Wells whereshe is still living at 90 years young. I took overthe role until 1978. Sunhill Court and CamdenCourt were each supplied with a small librarywhere the books were renewed every eight weeks.Before our permanent library opened, the librarywas just somewhere to obtain a book to read.Now with such progress and technology at ourfingertips the new library includes services suchas: videos, audio cassettes, jigsaws, greetingcards, bookmarks, an index of every bookavailable in Kent, a photocopier, careersinformation, public records, Parish Councilminutes, information on local events, transportand organisations, a children’s area, it providesbooks for housebound villagers, a paper copy ofthe Pembury Village News Internet site and isopen 24.5 hours a week. The Pembury libraryhas come a long way since it began, when it wasonly open two hours a week!Mrs D. L. EdmondsonCurrent Pembury Library opening hours are:MondayClosed all dayTuesday 10.00am to 1.00pm 2.00pm to 6.00pmWednesday10.00am to 1.00pmThursday 10.00am to 1.00pm 2.00pm to 5.00pmFriday 10.00am to 1.00pm 2.00pm to 5.00pmSaturday9.30am to 1.00pm19
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