Tag: Drylaw Parish Church

Still time to take part in Drylaw Parish Church survey

How could Drylaw Parish Church be used? The church’s community survey will be closing very soon, so please spare five minutes to fill it in and share your ideas.

Click on this link to be taken to the survey

– https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SQLPPYK

and be entered into a prize draw to win a £25 Marks & Spencer voucher.

The draw will take place shortly after the survey closes.

Celebrating Drylaw: Fun festival this weekend

Three days of community events in Drylaw

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Drylaw Parish Church, Rainbow Club Daycare Centre, Drylaw Telford Communtiy Council and Ferryhill School have got together to create a programme of events to celebrate all that’s good about Drylaw. Continue reading Celebrating Drylaw: Fun festival this weekend

Brown Owl Susan to receive Tierney Award

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Local Brown Owl Susan Jeffrey will receive the Thomas Tierney Award for Good Citizenship at next week’s Drylaw Telford Community Council meeting.

The Tierney Award was launched both to remember local activist Tam Tierney and to celebrate the work carried out by volunteers to improve life in the local community -and with thirty years service with the Brownies at Drylaw Parish Church Susan fits the bill admirably!

Community council chairman Alex Dale said: “We had four very worthy nominations for the Award this time round but Susan was the stand-out choice. To have volunteered with the local Brownies for thirty years shows incredible commitment and dedication. People like Susan help make communities better places to be and we are looking forward to presenting the award next week.”

The community council’s monthly business meeting will be held in Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre on Wednesday 25 March at 6.30pm and will be followed by the Award presentation and reception.

Brown Owl Susan (seated) is pictured with her current Brownie pack 

Full Scottish at Drylaw Church this Saturday!

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Drylaw Parish Church is holding a traditional Scots Afternoon in the Large Hall this Saturday from 12.30 – 4pm.

Haggis neeps and tatties lunch followed by a celebration of Scottish entertainment old and new. Tickets (£7.50) are available from Susan Jeffrey or a member of Fundraising committee.

See http://e-voice.org.uk/drylawparishchurch/ for more info

Happy birthday Nan!

DRYLAW’S NAN IS ONE HUNDRED

118_2520Born before the outbreak of the First World War, Drylaw woman Nan Macdonald celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends at Drylaw Parish Church yesterday. Guests were entertained with jazz and traditional Scottish music and shared lots and lots of stories and happy memories.

Nan is quite fragile these days and she is currently in an Inverleith nursing home, but as ever Nan’s husband of 73 years Harry was never far from his wife’s side – looking particular dapper in his maroon jacket and proudly sporting his Foundation of Hearts tie!

The pair met in the late 1930s when Harry was a butcher boy and Nan was helping to look after her father’s house. They shared many interests, particularly cycling and spent many happy weekends together on bike rides up to the north of Scotland.

The Second World War intervened but didn’t end the couple’s courtship – Harry got leave during naval service and he and Nan were married in Stockbridge Church on February 22 1941.

After the war the couple set up home in Drylaw where the Macdonalds had three children – George, Henry and Evelyn. Since then clan has continued to grow and grow, and grandchildren and great-grandchildren came from near and far to join yesterday’s celebrations.

Harry, incidentally, has a wee while to wait for his telegram from the Queen – he claims he’s Nan’s  ‘toy boy’ – he’s only 98!

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