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FRESHBROOK & GRANGE PARK 5
Last cuppa at community cafe Freshbrook Facechoice

Afterfive and a half years in business, church which has moved to its own evafl9eti
a community facility has closed, Church Pharmacy
building. High staff levels to serve
Freshbrook Community Centre's customers, low prices to attract them Freshbrook
cafe Cuppas has been an important and not enough turn-over were Worsley Road
meeting place for people in identified as the specific problems gives YOU a warm welcome Village Centre
Freshbrook since late 1984. However associated with Cuppas. Sunday lOam Tel: 870226
a report in July to the Freshbrook Family Praise with Children's Opening Times:
Faced with difficult choices the
Village Group residents' organi- FVG decided that it could not Covenanter Movement & Monday - Friday
sation set out the major financial threaten the financial viability of the creche 9am- 1pm
problems facing it. Income from the centre in order to continue 6.30pm Evening Worship and
licensed bar has dropped and there subsidising the cafe. It closed on 20 Communion 2.1 5pm - 630pm
has been a loss of rent from room July with three part-time staff being For details of mid-week Tuesday
bookings, in particular from the made redundant. meetings, house groups and 9am- 1pm; 2.15-5pm
other activities, telephone Saturday
Rev. Peter Grainger on 490498.
Living history Church Office, Tel: 873050 9am- 12noon
Part of Freshbrook School was Towne" required each pupil to
turned into 'Merrie Elizabethan research all they could about an
Englande' in July when nine and ten individual character and to study Wom
year olds donned the clothing and how and where they lived in 1592. Now
accoutrements of 16th Century life. x
To end their topic the pupils
Following on from a study of the dressed up as squires, ladies in
Houses of Parliament in May their waiting, servants and peasants to Specialists in video
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