Essentially Local May-June 2016

What’s On
The Song Loft
Paul Downes £7.00 8.15pm,
Friday, 6 May, Performers’
Night with Bearwood Folk Trio
£2.00 8.15pm Friday, 20 May,
The Roddy Clenaghan Band
£7.00 8.15pm, Friday, 3 June
Performers’ Night with Free
Spirit £2.00 8.15pm Friday,
17 June. Cock Hotel, Stony
Stratford MK11 1AH
The Towcester Choral Society
Rehearsals in Towcester Town
Hall, 7.30pm-9.30pm Tuesday.
01327 353314 or membership@
towcesterchoralsociety.org.uk
www.towcesterchoralsociety.org.uk
See Facebook and Twitter
DANCE
Old Mother Redcaps
Friendly Ladies Morris dancing
side, looking for new dancers
& musicians. Meet in Swinfen
Harris Hall, Stony Stratford,
8.00-10.00pm Mon evenings
Catherine 01908 667112
Potterspury Dance Club
Friendly group of ballroom and
sequence dancers. £2.50.
New members welcome.
John & Di 01604 862632
8pm- 10pm Tuesday,
Potterspury Village Hall.
Rose & Castle Morris
Northampton County Beer
Festival Delapre Abbey,
Sunday, 22 May Milton Keynes
Museum Victorian event
Saturday, 11 June.
Stoke Bruerne Village Hall
8.30pm-10.30pm Every
Wednesday. New members
welcome.
Ian 01908 635133 or
welborn@cmdevelopment.co.uk
www.rose-castlemorris.org.uk
Triple K Western Line Dancers
Improvers class 7.30pm-9.00pm
Thurs, Haversham Social &
Community Centre. Beginners
class 10.45am-11.45am,
Deanshanger Memorial Centre.
Kay or Andrew on
01525 376172
MARKETS
Monthly Farmers Markets
Market Square, Stony Stratford
Last Friday 9.00am-1.00pm
Towcester Nr Waitrose
2nd Friday 9.00am-1.00pm
Wolverton Road/Creed Street,
Wolverton 1st and 3rd Saturday
9am-1.00pm
Milton Keynes Country Market
Fridays 8.00am-12 noon. Local
Produce Baking, Crafts, Plants,
Cafe. The Old Bath House,
Stratford Rd, Wolverton. Free
entry. Timor Court Market,
Stony Stratford. Saturdays Fruit,
Veg, Flowers and other stalls.
LEISURE
Reading Group
Meet 2.00pm last Wednesday
of month, Deanshanger Library
01908 562889
deanlib@northamptonshire.gov.uk
The Knit and Natter
First Friday of month, to knit
and natter, Deanshanger Library
01908 562889
deanlib@northamptonshire.gov.uk
Stony Stratford Library
Knit and Natter 1st and 3rd
Fridays of the month Learn to
Knit Thursdays 3.30-4.00pm
(term time only) Book Club
2.00-3.00pm, 4th Wednesday
of the month www.miltonkeynes.gov.uk/libraries
Deanshanger Sports Club
Social Evenings
In partnership with
Deanshanger Colts and Divas.
Little London, Deanshanger
MK19 6HU 01908 567137
Facebook Deanshangersports
and social club
Scribal Gathering
Stony Stratford’s premier openminded
open mic night. Doors
open 7.30pm for 8.00pm start.
2nd Tuesday every month, The
Cock Hotel, Stony Stratford 1st
Sunday every month, Fox and
Hounds, Stony Stratford.
Stony Curry Club Quiz
Raising funds for Willen Hospice
and Rett UK. First Tuesday of
month – 1 March and 5 April.
£15 per head/tables of four.
Book via StonyCurryClub@
hotmail.com Facebook: Stony
Stratford Tuesday Night
Charity Curry Club Quiz Naidni
Restaurant & Bar.
Wolverton Community
Orchard
Gardening Day 10.00am –
3.00pm Tuesdays weather
permitting all welcome.
Yvonne 01908 320405 or
Mandy on 01908 319719
Towcester Bridge Club
Meet 7.20pm for a 7.30 start,
every Tuesday for friendly
duplicate bridge at Towcester
Conservative Club. Price Table
Money £2.50 for members
£3.50 for visitors. Membership
£10 annually. More information
Lynda Riecken, lynda@riecken.
co.uk. New players welcome.
www.bridgewebs.com/towcester
Towcester & District
Art Society
Meet every Thursday
throughout the year in
Paulerspury Village Hall.
www.towcesterart.com
SENIORS
Deanshanger Day Centre
Hot lunch, tea, coffee, bingo
& raffle etc for seniors in
Deanshanger, Old Stratford and
Wicken. Transport available for
wheelchairs. Thursday 9.30am-
2.30pm Pat Ridgeway
01908 564420
Senior Citizens Afternoon
Tea, coffee, home-made cakes. All
welcome. Last Friday of month,
2.00pm-4.00pm, Memorial Hall,
Deanshanger Road, Old Stratford
(by village shop).
Havencourt Sheltered Home
Bingo Mon 7.00pm & Weds
1.00pm Coffee Morning Fri
10.30am Monthly Lunch Club
£4.20 pp 12.30pm
linda.wallis@
SouthNorthantsHomes.co.uk
Ridgmont, Deanshanger
WOMEN’S
INSTITUTE
Bradwell WI
Friendly afternoon meeting
with interesting speakers, tea
and cake, warm welcome. Olive
Stewart 01908 310267. 2.30pm,
3rd Tuesday of month Sports
& Social Club, Abbey Road,
Bradwell Village.
Castlethorpe WI
Meet 7.30pm, 2nd Thurs of
month Castlethorpe Village
Hall. castlethorpewi@gmail.com
Cosgrove WI
Meet 7.30pm, 1st Tues of the
Month, Cosgrove Village Hall
Deanshanger WI
Visitors and new members
welcome. Visitors £3.50
7.30pm, 2nd Thursday
of month, Deanshanger
Memorial Community Centre,
Deanshanger
Hanslope WI
Meet 7.30pm, 1st Tuesday of
month, Hanslope Village Hall.
Visitors welcome. R. Simpson
01908 510516
tubs@full-moon.eclipse.co.uk
Potterspury WI
Visitor fee – £3.00 7.30pm, 1st
Wed of month, Village Hall,
Potterspury
Stony Stratford WI
Resolutions for National AGM
and work of “Home Instead”–
2.15pm Tuesday, 3 May
Francesca Skelton – High Sheriff
of Buckinghamshire 2.15pm
Tuesday, 7 June
Both at York House, London
Road, Stony Stratford
Coach outing to Salisbury,
Wiltshire Thursday, 12 May
Craft and Chat, Methodist Hall,
Silver Street, Stony Stratford
2.15pm Tuesday, 17 May and
Tuesday, 21 June
gill.williams@fsml.co.uk
Stony Nightingales WI
Resolution meeting – members
only. 8.00pm, Thursday, 12 May
Tai Chi talk & group session by
Jenny Wong from Wellbeing
MK, comfortable clothing.
8.00pm, Thursday, 14 April.
Visitors welcome £4.00
Swinfen Harris Hall, London
Road, Stony Stratford MK11 1AJ
Julie Clothier – President:
07738 054915 Facebook
Stony Nightingales WI
www.snwi.co.uk
Towcester Evening WI
An active group of women,
meet 7.00pm for 7.30-9.30pm,
1st Thursday of month,
everyone welcome! Visitors may
make a donation for tea/coffee.
Riverside Centre, Islington
Road, Towcester NN12 7AU
towcesterwi.blogspot.co.uk/
Yardley Gobion WI
7.30pm 2nd Thursday of the
month. Yardley Gobion Village
Hall. Visitor fee £3
EVENTS
No Strings
A Cappela Singers – Bach,
Beatles, Barber shops and
beyond 4.00pm Sunday, 8
May Tickets Brian Parsons
01234 391962 £15 suggested
minimum donation in aid
of Church fabric. St Firmins
Church, North Crawley.
http://friendsofstfirmins.co.uk
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