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An Easter Message
Father Jeff sends this message in the 2025 Easter Card, which is being delivered to households across the parish: Dear Friends, Jesus`...
Christopher Williams
Mar 282 min read
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A Christmas Message
Father Jeff shares a message. .. My dear Friends, As we prepare to celebrate Jesus' birth and then embark upon a new year, I have asked...
Christopher Williams
Dec 21, 20243 min read
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Remembrance
Dear Friends, "War has a way of distinguishing the things which matter and the things which don't." It was a line I heard recently in a...
Christopher Williams
Nov 8, 20242 min read
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'Think All A Mother Should Be. She Was That'
My Dear Friends, "Think all a mother should be, she was that." As I mentioned to those of you who were at church last Sunday, this is...
Christopher Williams
Sep 6, 20242 min read
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Dealing with the pigeons in the church tower 90 years ago …
Edward (Ted) Morris* recalled in 1991 how the problems caused by the pigeons were handled in the 1930s… ‘While Assistant Tower-Keeper in...
Christopher Williams
Jul 10, 20242 min read
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Look Up - Our Tower Has New Louvres!
The work to renew the wooden louvres on our church tower has been completed! The internal photographs show the new tower louvres with...
Christopher Williams
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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The VI that fell on Gotham Villas on Twickenham Riverside.
An intriguing enquiry was received in 2021 via the Parish website: “My mother who is 90 is stuck with a memory of her uncle Cecil (Bore)...
Diana Wells
May 31, 20242 min read
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The Question of Alexander Pope’s Skull
Alexander Pope died in 1744 and was buried in St Mary’s by the chancel step, probably below a square stone incised “P”
Diana Wells
May 24, 20243 min read
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Heating problems in St Mary’s 100 years ago
Heating the large space enclosed in stone walls and with metal-frame windows has been a cause of much angst and expense in most church...
Diana Wells
May 17, 20242 min read
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Our New Assistant Priest
Father Jeff introduces you to The Reverend Donna McDowell... 'We are soon to be joined by a new Assistant Priest who will also act as...
Christopher Williams
May 10, 20242 min read
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No Such Person as a Vicar of Twickenham?
A lively correspondence began on the letters page of the Richmond & Twickenham Times on 11 December 1954, the details of which were...
Diana Wells
May 10, 20242 min read
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The East Window, St Mary’s Church, Twickenham
As you sit in church your eyes may be drawn upwards above the altar and the Victorian reredos with its Corinthian pilasters to light
Diana Wells
May 3, 20244 min read
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Pastoral Letter for Easter 2024
Father Jeff sends you this letter: Dear Friends, I was listening to some people being interviewed on the lunchtime news on the radio a...
Christopher Williams
Mar 29, 20242 min read
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Mothering Sunday and Mothers' Union
This Sunday, 10th March, we celebrate Mothering Sunday and mark the work of St Mary's branch of the Mothers' Union at the end of over 130...
Christopher Williams
Mar 8, 20241 min read
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Pastoral Letter for Lent from Fr. Jeff
And so we begin the great journey though Lent to Holy Week and Easter. As those of you who were there will recall, on Ash Wednesday you...
Christopher Williams
Feb 16, 20242 min read
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Calculating Your Carbon Footprint
James Martin of The Woodland Trust is just one voice in the many that encourages us all to think about using a carbon footprint...
Liz Webborn
Feb 6, 20242 min read
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Christmas 1918 and New Year 1919 in St Mary’s Parish Magazines
After the excitement of the November Armistice and four long years of war the contents of the Parish Magazines returned very quickly to norm
Diana Wells
Dec 1, 20233 min read
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Notes On a Green Theme
Last Sunday Sarah Wilson spoke about the work of Mission for Vision, one of the charities that we, as a church, supports. She told us...
Liz Webborn
Jul 11, 20231 min read
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Notes On a Green Theme
St Mary's has achieved the Eco Church Silver Award! Well done team, this is great news. I'd like to copy the email received from Eco...
Liz Webborn
Jul 11, 20232 min read
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Notes On a Green Theme
Have you heard about ‘The Great Big Green Week’? This a national week of community action from the 10th to the 18th of June to tackle...
Liz Webborn
Jun 5, 20231 min read
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