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Week St. Mary
NORTH CORNWALL, UK

50° 45'03.84"N 4° 30'01.39"W
Elevation: 142m OS: SX237977

Week St. Mary Village Community Web Site

H E A D L I N E S

Choral Evensong led by the various church choirs of the Deanery
Stratton Deanery Festival
Bishop Tim will preach and talk to us about his aspirations for the Deaneries of this Diocese
at St. Mary's Church, Week St. Mary
Sunday 5th July at 6.30pm
ALL WELCOME

ANNUAL CRAFT FAIR
St. Mary's Church, Week St. Mary
Friday 28th August - Wednesday 2nd September

START THINKING ABOUT YOUR
SCARECROW - ANY THEME!
WEEK ST MARY SCARECROW FESTIVAL LIVES ON
The scarecrow festival will go ahead this year between
28th August and the 2nd September

WEEK ST MARY - REVEL WEEKEND
Saturday 19th - Sunday 20th September

I N T H I S M O N T H

2009 July 2009
1st 1916	The First World War: At least 20,000 British soldiers are killed and a further 40,000 are injured on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. It is the greatest number of British casualties in a single day’s fighting in modern history.
6th 1971	Jazz legend Louis Armstrong dies aged 69. 1900 – Although jazz legend Louis Armstrong always claimed to have been born on this date, later scholarship established that his birthday was on August 4, 1901. Louis Armstrong (4 August 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Sachimo and Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.
7th 1985	German tennis player Boris Becker, an unseeded 17 year old, becomes the youngest player to win the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.
11th 1975	China’s Terracotta Army uncovered near the ancient capital of Xian. More than 8,000 life sized warriors were buried around 206BC to guard the tomb of the first Chinese Emperor.
13th 1837	Queen Victoria becomes the first British monarch to live at Buckingham Palace in London.
15th 1881	American outlaw 'Billy The Kid' - William Bonney - is shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
17th 1964	British speed pioneer Sir Donald Campbell sets a new land speed world record of 429mph in his car, Bluebird.
19th 1588	The ships of the Spanish Armada are sighted off Lizard Point, in Cornwall on the English coast.
23rd 1903	In America, the first two-cylinder Ford Model A motor car was delivered to its owner, Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago.
25th 1909	French aviator Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to fly across the English Channel from a field near Calais to Northfall Meadow near Dover Castle, England.
30th 1966	Host nation England beat Germany 4-2 to win the World Cup final at Wembley Stadium. In extra-time, Geoff Hurst scored his third of three goals to win the game, handing England the Jules Rimet Trophy for the first time in the World Cup’s 36-year history.

S I T E S O F I M P O R T A N C E T O R E S E A R C H E R S

A New Book on
Week St. Mary

by David M Martin

Click here
to visit the
ONLINE PARISH CLERK

A useful link to information
about the village's past

Cornwall
Record Office

Cornwall County Council
Old County Hall
Truro
Cornwall TR1 3AY
cro@cornwall.gov.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1872 323127
Fax: +44 (0)1872 322292

Bude, Stratton and District
OLD CORNWALL SOCIETY

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