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10 – 18 January: Join Dick Whittington and friends
as The Oxted Players take you on a journey of
adventure! It’s 14th Century London and Queen
Rat is assembling an army to take over the city and
make herself Lord Mayor. Fortunately, Fairy Bowbells
is out to stop her plans and, in the penniless Dick
Whittington, she finds the hero London needs!
With the help of his cat, Tommy, Dick finds himself
thwarting her plans... but Queen Rat won’t be
defeated easily! Meet the loveable Idle Jack, the
outrageous Sarah the Cook and a host of other
wonderful characters as Dick and Tommy thwart evil,
find new ways to sell hot tubs (?!) and unwittingly
solve the existential crisis of Morocco’s richest man
- Sultan Kardashian - through the power of social
media! You couldn’t make it up...! Tickets costing just
£15.00 are available www.barntheatreoxted.co.uk For
group bookings and general assistance please email
tickets@oxtedplayers.co.uk or call 01883 714062
14 January: All Are Welcome Café reopens and will
be open every Tuesday 10 – 12pm until 8th April
2025. At the United Reformed Church, 21 Bluehouse
Lane RH8 0AA. Come by yourself or with a friend for a
free coffee, cake and chat.
19 January: January is the month for the Limpsfield
Community Orchard’s Wassail, an annual traditional
that revolves around drinking and singing to bless
the orchards to ensure a good harvest for the year to
come. This Anglo-Saxon celebration, involving music,
song and dancing, traditionally took place on Twelfth
Night. It’s always great fun and something different to
do on a wintry Sunday afternoon! 4.30pm - Assemble
inside Limpsfield British Legion
20 January: Tandridge Handicraft Society is hosting
a talk entitled “50 Ways to Tie a Scarf” The talk will be
presented by Helen Kendall-Tobias. Doors open 1:30,
talk starts at 2pm. Visitors are welcome, £5 entry
including tea and biscuits. The Society meet every
Monday at the Woodhouse Centre, Hoskins Road car
park, opposite Tandridge Leisure Centre, Oxted RH8
9HT postcode for SatNav RH8 9JQ). Further details
on our website www.tandridgehandicraftsociety.org.
uk or contact Jenny Beal on 01883 620730
21 January: Clairvoyant Evening at The Bull Inn. Visit
www.thebullinnlimpsfield.com
21 January: Oxted WI speaker is Pat Chaney – Gladly
Learn and Gladly Tell. New members are always
welcome. Oxted WI meet on the third Tuesday of each
month from 2.15 to 4.30 pm at the United Reform
Church Bluehouse Lane Oxted RH8 0AA For further
information please contact Julie on 01883 714441
Oxted WI have joined the WI fund raising Lottery for
further information see our website https://oxtedwi.
chessck.co.uk
25 January: Burns Night supper at The Carpenters.
Visit www.carpentersarmslimpsfield.com
25 January: Join Bob Mills and friends, as House
of Stand Up presents ‘An Evening of Top London
Comedy’ at 7.45pm. His unique style and talented
years of experience leave audiences wanting more.
Bob has a list of TV credits to his name but will be
familiar as the host from ITV’s long running daytime
show ‘Win, Lose or Draw’. He became best known
for his off the wall late-night cult show ‘In Bed with
Medinner’, in which he commented on documentary
video footage. It became a huge hit with audiences.
On radio, Bob can be heard regularly on his own show
on Talk Sport. Tickets costing just £22.00 are available
from www.barntheatreoxted.co.uk
26 January: Burns Night supper at The Bull Inn. Visit
www.thebullinnlimpsfield.com
29 January: The Arts Society Limpsfield Henry VII’s
State Bed by Jonathan Foyle, AFTERNOON LECTURE
ONLY, Limpsfield Church Hall RH8 0DG. Lecture starts
at 2.15pm, refreshments BEFORE the lecture. In 2010,
the elaborately carved, incomplete oak bed frame
was removed from the honeymoon suite of a hotel
in Chester, to be auctioned as a Victorian relic. The
speaker has spent six years studying and attributing
it, now featured in press around the world. Featuring
five royal arms, six single roses, and deeply esoteric
symbols of fertility, it turns out to be covered in
medieval paintwork, and its proportions respect
the mural of the lost Painted Chamber of royal
Westminster Palace abandoned in 1512. Scientific
analyses, documentation and art history agree to
demonstrate it is an astonishing national treasure:
the marriage bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York,
made by 18 January 1486.
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