Out & About October 2017

OA what’s on

October dates for your diary

Step Up 4 Good , Greenham Common, 10am. Run and raise money for their favourite charities. Four races for all ages and abilities; mini mile, 3k, 5k and 10k. All participants will receive a race T-shirt and a medal. There will be official recorded chip timing set up for every competitor and the first three male and female runners for each race will be awarded with trophies and prizes. Register at www.entryhub. co.uk/2017-step-up-4-good. For more details please visit www.stepup4good.co.uk. Wednesday 18 Talking History: Lord Falkland – his life, times, death and memorial, 7pm-8pm, West Berkshire Museum. Tickets £5 from the museum or online Thursday 19 Zervas and Pepper, folk-rock, 8pm, Arlington Arts Centre. Box office 01635 244 246 Friday 20 Hungerford Historical Association, talk by Jon Snow, Living History, 7.30pm, Hungerford Corn Exchange Pumpkin Flower Arranging Workshop, 10am-12noon. Shaw House, Newbury. 01635 279279. shawhouse@westberks.gov.uk Martin Simpson, folk, 8pm, Arlington Arts Centre. Box office 01635 244246 Living with the Americans, talk by Claire Burdett, 7pm-8pm, West Berkshire Museum. 01635 519562 Saturday 21 Whole Lotta Led, 8pm, Arlington Arts Centre. Box office 01635 244246 Monday 23 To Friday 28, Hallowe’en Haunt Hunt . Follow the trail around Newbury town centre using the clues and find letters that reveal the secret code. Entry forms can be collected from Parkway Shopping and the Kennet Centre from Graeme Hewitt’s High Society Jazz Band, play every Tuesday in Theale Village Hall (RG7 5AS) and invite some top-class guests to join them. Amy Roberts, Lester Brown and Mark Aston will be blowin’ up a storm. From 8.30pm. Admission £10 Newbury District Field Club , talk by Dick Godfrey on the Swing Riots , 7.30pm, St John’s October 23 Tuesday 24

Parish Rooms, St John’s Church Hall, Newbury. Wednesday 25 Maneli Jamal and Jon Hart, guitars, 8pm, Arlington Arts Centre. Box office 01635 244 246 To November 4, Under MilkWood, The Watermill, Bagnor. See Trish Lee’s picks, p53 Thursday 26 Hugh Cornwell, 8pm, Arlington Arts Centre. Box office 01635 244246 Friday 27 And tomorrow, Lego Hallowe’en Workshops for children, Kennet Centre,10.30am-3.30pm. Build your own scary Halloween character and Ultimate Elton and the Rocket band, 8pm, Croft Hall, Hungerford. Book online at Arts for Hungerford. https://artsforhungerfordevents. wordpress.com/events/35404889979/ Mayor’s Charity Coffee Morning, in aid of The Newbury Weekly News Over 80s Parcel Fund, 10am-12noon, Newbury Town Hall, Market Place Armed Forces Day, Newbury Racecourse. The final meeting of the 2017 Flat Season is always a great occasion. The day also sees the launch of the Berkshire & Vale of White Horse Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, and there is free entry for armed forces personnel past and present. The first race at 1.15pm is the Varsity Race between amateur riders from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. www.newburyracecourse.co.uk Autumn Colours , a special variety concert at St. Paul’s Church, Ashford Hill, 7pm. Tickets: adults £7.50, children free. Phone: 01635 299227. Refreshments and plenty of parking28 Kennet Valley Wood Turners 20th Anniversary, Padworth Village Hall, 10am to 4pm. Everyone invited to see some of the wood-turned items with demonstrations and a table of memorabilia. Refreshments provided. Please see www.kvwt.co.uk for more details or telephone 01488 658168 take it home. Saturday 28

Village markets illage markets

Aldworth Community Market, every Saturday, 9.30am to noon. 01635 578090. Basildon village market, 10am to 12.30pm. Last Saturday of the month. 01491 671515. Beenham village market, 2pm to 3.30pm. Second Saturday of the month. 0118 971 4822. Bradfield market, Bradfield Village Hall, 10am to 11.30am on the second Saturday of the month. 0118 9744068. Bucklebury Artisan food market, The Bladebone Inn, Chapel Row, first Saturday Farmers’ markets – Newbury, first and third Sunday of every month, 9am to 1pm; Hungerford, fourth Sunday, 9am to 1.30pm; Purley-on-Thames, second Sat, 9am to 1pm. Hamstead Marshall market, second Saturday of every month, 10am to 1pm, 01488 658932/ 658168. Hermitage farmers’ market, second Sunday of every month, 10am to 1pm, 01635 201555. Inkpen food and craft market, Inkpen Village Hall, third Sunday of every month, 10am - 12.30pm. Silchester Market, Silchester Village Hall, first Saturday of the month, 10am to midday. Spirals Craft market, raising money for The Brain Tumour Charity, dates and venues vary. Wednesday, United Reformed Church Hall, Church Lane, Thatcham 10am to 11.30am. 01635 872713. Wolverton Village Hall, market first Saturday of every month, 9.30am to 11am. 01488 608594. Woolhampton village market, first Saturday of the month, 10am to midday. 0118 971 3637. Woolton Hill village market, last Saturday of every month, 10am to 1pm. See www.spiralscraftmarket.co.uk Thatcham Community Market every of the month, 10am to 12noon. Love food @BuckleburyAFM

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