Events (Page 3)
Services up to the end of January 2021 – dates for your diary
We have planned all of our services up to the end of January with a mixture of in-person, online and over the phone events to be as safe and inclusive as possible. Below are all the dates for your diary. All services available to view either live on Facebook or after broadcast on YouTube. Thursday morning Phone Church to continue as normal. In-person services are of course subject to change if coronavirus restrictions change. See the Church of England website…
Celebrating 75 years since VJ Day in Barlborough 2020
This Saturday 15th August we celebrate 75 years since the decisive end of the Second World War, Victory in Japan Day. Watch our short service here: Here is the order of service should you want to follow it at home: You’ll see the bunting has returned to Barlborough for this celebration and the Parish Council are encouraging people to have a socially distanced afternoon tea with neighbours from 2pm.
Keep Calm and Stay In – celebrating VE Day 2020 in Barlborough & Clowne
Today is VE Day and sadly we are unable to gather together physically to celebrate. Rev Bryony is going to conduct a short act of Remembrance and Thanksgiving (including the Last Post) at Barlborough War Memorial at 10.45am live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stjamesbarlborough/live/ – please do not come to the memorial to watch but do please watch on Facebook. The video will appear here after it has broadcast. You may wish to pray this prayer on this important day in our…
Barlborough celebrates VE Day at home
To commemorate V.E. Day, Friday 8th May, 2020, the Parish Council will hang bunting from the railings outside St.James’ Church, Barlborough. The bunting has been decorated by local groups including children and young people. The Chair to the Parish Council, Jane Haywood, will also play 1940s music on Clowne Road Barlborough at approximately 3.00p.m., following the broadcast of Sir Winston Churchill’s Victory Speech. Please feel free join in with bunting and music on your property. This would help us create…
Sing Resurrection! Join in at 10am Easter Day – use the videos here
A counter-infection of joy and hope for Easter Day Easter Sunday 2020 will be an Easter Sunday like no other before it. We cannot sing the great Easter hymns inside our churches, but we can sing them in this way… At 10am on Easter Sunday April 12th all who want to celebrate the resurrection are encouraged to go outside and sing Jesus Christ is Risen Today and Thine be the Glory at the top of their voices! You could sing…
Join us for our Plastic Free Harvest Festival Family Fun Day!
A Harvest Festival with a difference! This year parishioners at Clowne Parish Church are celebrating Harvest Festival in a new way – they are encouraging people to go plastic-free! Rector, Bryony Taylor said, “I’ve always struggled a bit with Harvest Festival having grown up in a town. It is a Victorian festival that we celebrate now with much nostalgia but it doesn’t always feel that relevant in these modern times when you can buy strawberries all year round! I realised…
The Vicar of Dibley comes to Barlborough’s famous flower festival – 27th-30th July 2019
The Vicar of Dibley comes to Barlborough’s famous flower festival Barlborough Church celebrates its Festival of St James every year with a flower festival – dates this year are Saturday 27th July – Tuesday 30th July. This year’s theme is TV we have known and loved. The church’s Rector, Rev’d Bryony Taylor is a self-confessed telly addict and wrote a book about Christians on the telly called ‘More TV Vicar?’ (DLT, 2016). She said, ‘we chose television as this year’s…
Clowne celebrates its rich mining heritage with a vibrant festival
Clowne Mining Festival will take place on Saturday 22nd June from 10am-3pm at St John the Baptist Parish Church. This will be an opportunity for people to celebrate the mining heritage of our district and share their family history with the next generation. Explore our exhibition of mining memorabilia created by Clowne History Society. Come and see our brand-new mining mosaic created with artist Coralie Turpin and Junction Arts for our newly restored Miners Chapel. Visit our traditional church fair stalls…
Help us to create Clowne Mining Mosaic – come to a workshop
As you know, we have been successful in our bid to Tesco Bags of Help to create our mosaic for the Miners Chapel at St John the Baptist, Clowne. We are working with artist Coralie Turpin and Junction Arts to create a mosaic to go on the front of the altar in our restored Miners Chapel for future generations to enjoy and celebrate our mining heritage. We are running a series of workshops at church to create the mosaic, all…
Barlborough’s first Grand Christmas Tree Festival – starts Sat 24 Nov 11am
St James Parish church in Barlborough is helping the community to get into the Christmas spirit with its very first Grand Christmas Tree Festival running over three weekends beginning on Saturday 24th November. The church will be open from 11am-5pm serving refreshments and you can browse all the Christmas Trees on display from local organisations and businesses. Some gifts and cards are available to purchase along with raffle tickets to win a luxury Christmas Hamper. Also during the festival we are…