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2010-02-01T14:45:00.000-08:00

BURNS SUPPER - 30th January 2010

Saturday night saw our Burns Supper take over the Memorial Hall with poetry, song and dance, oh and a the odd whisky or two!

The evening was a resounding success that saw revellers reluctant to leave come the end of the of the supper.

The Mayfield Robert Burns celebrants watched their haggis be piped in before it was toasted by Gavin Ross. They then enjoyed much Burns poetry with one poem read by a young 11-year-old Eve Rae and another by her older brother Jake Rae. They also laughed themselves silly at a reading of Parliamo Glasgow by Margaret Rae, Barbara Laird and Rosemary. And listened with delight as Kate Laird sung some Burns songs.

After a delicious dinner of either haggis or steak pie, neeps and tatties everyone took to the dancefloor for a wee bit of ceilidh dancing led by Ian Rae.

2009-12-19T15:08:00.000-08:00

Mayfield Village Centre - December News

Mayfield Village Centre committee and fundraisers would like to thank everyone who took part in the Seasonal Charity Concert in St Dunstans Church in November. The event, sponsored by Friends of Mayfield Music, raised a whopping £1900 for the new Mayfield Village Centre. So thank you very much to everyone who took part in this concert and who made it an evening to remember for all who attended.

Coming Up
January – Burns Supper in Mayfield Memorial Hall Saturday 30th January
Anyone who loves a good night out with excellent food, poetry, Scottish readings, fantastic music and a bit of ceilidh dancing should make their way to Mayfield on Saturday 30th January for our traditional Burns Supper in aid of the new Mayfield Village Centre.
The evening will kick off at 7.30pm with doors opening at 6.45pm where guests will be greeted by a piper who will play them a lovely Scottish welcome as they enter the hall into the world of Rabbie Burns.
After the haggis has been piped in to the hall and the toast to the haggis has been made it will be time for a wonderful sit down meal.
The three-course meal is included in the ticket price and for those who don’t like haggis there will be the other choice of Highland steak pie as a main. Both of these will be served with the traditional Burns Supper fare of neeps and tatties – which translate to swede and potatoes.
Guests will also receive a wee nip of whisky for the toasts.
During the evening guests will be regaled with readings of Burns poetry from adults and children, they’ll have the opportunity to listen to some of Mayfield’s best singers turn their voices to some lovely Scottish songs and they’ll have the chance to hear one Scottish woman and one English woman teach everyone how to “Parlezamaglasgow”. – you’ll need to go along to find out what this entails – but it does promise to raise quite a laugh!
After dinner, drinks and much merriment guests will have the opportunity to learn and take part in some ceilidh dancing taught by a fully fledged Scotsman who knows his dances.
If you’d love to come along to Mayfield Village Centre’s fundraising Burns Supper tickets will be available from Libra Bookshop in the High Street after Christmas and will cost £18. Remember, this price includes a 3-course sit down meal and you’ll be asked your main course choice when you book.

February – Winterfest 2010 - 19th Feb to 23rd Feb
February 2010 will see Mayfield’s inaugural Winterfest indoor ice skating experience!
Running from Friday 19th February until Tuesday February 23rd, Winterfest will see Mayfield’s Memorial Hall being turned into a winter wonderland with a wonderful synthetic ice rink as the central feature.
Tickets for this new Mayfield Village Centre fundraising event will be very affordable and include ice skate hire. And Mayfield’s Winterfest ice skating experience promises to be the biggest winter event Mayfield’s seen in years.
We’ll be opening up times for schools and local youth groups such as Cubs, Beavers, Scouts, Guides, etc to book group time on the ice. And we hope to be able to offer mother and toddler skate time, family time and teenager time.
We also hope to get a local celebrity to open our event – watch this space!
Winterfest will also feature a café serving hot drinks, cakes, soft drinks and simple snacks to help replenish tired and happy skaters. And parents who don’t fancy a skating session themselves will be able to enjoy a coffee or hot chocolate while their children take to the ice.
The ice rink, which is synthetic and will be indoors at the memorial hall, will keep all skaters dry and warm regardless of the weather. And there will be ice stewards on hand as well as first aiders to help novice skaters and keep an eye on all our safety.
Tickets for this incredible event will be available online in the New Year and also in Burnett’s Estate Agent on the High Street.
Please watch this space for more news on Winterfest as it becomes available and also look out for posters and leaflets.

As we are a fundraising group and this is an event to raise funds to help build the new Mayfield Village Centre we are looking for business sponsorship. So, if you are a local business and would like to advertise around our ice rink please contact us through our website http://www.mayfieldvillagecentre.co.uk/

Did You Know: Mayfield Village Centre’s new main hall will be larger than the present hall, with improved acoustics and stage facilities. Arts and Culture form an important aspect of Mayfield life and a modern auditorium will reflect this, encouraging more varied music, drama and arts in the village. In addition the Main Hall will also be suitable for a variety of sports and recreational

2009-11-22T14:17:00.000-08:00

A Small Fortune Found in a Skip?

An antiques valuer never quite knows what to expect when he looks at an antique for the first time.

And it was a very surprised Mayfield antique valuations expert who was faced with what appeared to be a very rare and valuable 400 year old book at an antiques roadshow event.

Michael Hore of Mayfield’s Chester Valuations Company hosted the evening and invited guests to bring along their antiques to be valued by him and to hear him describe the history behind their cherished nik naks.

And it was at the For What it’s Worth event in the village that Michael, a mind of antiques information, spotted the book: the works of Cicero dating from 1609. And when he asked the owner where he’d got it from he was told, to much hilarity from gathered group, that it was found in a skip.

Michael, careful not to value the book incorrectly promised the owner he’d get back to him once he’d fully researched it. But that the book found in a skip could perhaps be worth a fortune.

Sadly, however, for the owner it wasn’t a rare book and only worth around £50.

Other pieces brought along to the evening, which was held to raise funds for the new Mayfield Village Centre, did prove to be more valuable.

There were a pair of silver candlesticks that Michael valued at upwards of £3000, and the wooden clock pictured to the left of Michael is said to be worth between £500 and £600 and is French, probably from Northern France.

Amazingly, just like the experts on Antiques Roadshow, Michael can look at an antique and tell it’s heritage, where it was made, when it was made and often provide some extra fascinating tidbits of information.

And he shared lots of little anecdotes about the antiques on display but also about his life as a valuations expert with Sotheby’s:

As the evening showed, an antiques valuer never quite knows what he’ll be faced with.

And Michael backed this up with a story about a valuation he did when he pulled a porcelain bird from the bottom of a cupboard, followed by it’s matching pair only to discover that these two birds hidden away for years and years were actually worth more than £100,000.

The Chester Valuation Company is a well respected antiques valuation company and surprisingly in this time of recession, Michael is busier than usual as antique lovers rush to get their collections reappraised to ensure they’re not paying too much in premiums or to make sure that they’re not under-insured as items like jewellery, diamonds and gold have increased in value whereas some painters works have decreased in value while others have increased.

And if antiques collectors don’t have enough insurance and a mishap occurs they won’t get the full worth of their collections.

And that would be truly devastating – especially if you owned a very rare book found in a skip or a pair of £100,000 porcelain birds.

Coming Up:

December: A seasonal Charity Concert will be held in Mayfield’s St. Dunstans Church on December 5th at 7.30pm.

The Concert, sponsored by the Friends of Music in Mayfield, will feature Mayfield Festival Choir; St. Leonards-Mayfield Schola Cantorum; Skippers Hill Manor School, Senior Choir as well as superb soloists who will be announced at a later date.

The seasonal concert will include excerpts from Handel’s Messiah by the Choir, Missa Brevis-Britten performed by Schola Cantorum and a selection of songs by Skippers Hill.

Tickets cost £12 for centre seats, £8 for side aisle seats. Children aged under 13 are half price.

Tickets go on sale on 2nd November from Libra Book Shop or by post to: The Box Office, PO Box 324, Mayfield, TN20 6WA (with SAE). Cheques payable to the Friends of of Music in Mayfield.

All profits from this charity concert will be kindly donated to the Mayfield Village Centre.

February: Fundraisers for Mayfield Village Centre are hoping to host an incredible Winterfest Indoor Ice Skating rink for one week in February (this week should take in some of February half term) in the Memorial Hall. For this to go ahead we really need volunteers to come along and help man the rink.

We need First Aid certified helpers, people to help man the skate hire, ice marshals (so if you can ice skate this will be right up your street) and many more volunteers to help this event run smoothly. If you could spare, even just a few hours, over the week period please let us know by email via our new website www.mayfieldvillagecentre.com.

Michael Hore - host of For What it's Worth

For What It's Worth

2009-11-05T12:52:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow night it's For What It's Worth, the antiques roadshow-like evening is taking place in the Memorial Hall.

Hosted by Michael Hore, a former Sotheby's expert valuer, and with more indepth info on the antiques you bring along it's sure to be a fascinating night.

If you’ve any antiques bring them along to tomorrow night (a maximum of two antiques per person please) and Mike, who has 40 years experience in the antiques business, will give some informal valuations.

He’ll also talk about his specialist subject in fun, fascinating and informative way; he may even raise a chuckle or two. He also promises to discuss some of the antiques brought along on the night.

The evening will also have a quiz, so gen up on the antiques world before you go along.

Tickets cost £6 including superior savoury nibbles and are available from Burnetts Estate Agents in the High Street.

And remember, all monies raised by the night will go towards the new Mayfield Village Centre which will benefit you, your children, their children and their children, sportspeople, musicians, orators, local groups, theatre groups, book fanatics, historians and so many more.

For What it’s Worth, November 6th at 7pm for 7.30pm in Mayfield Memorial Hall, tickets from Burnetts.

80s Disco

2009-10-13T15:35:00.000-07:00

What is it about 80s discos that makes you feel like you've been transported right back to your high school disco in the school gym?

That's exactly how we all felt in Mayfield Memorial Hall on a Saturday in September.

We took our dressing up seriously and we ALL took our dancing seriously as we threw some shapes on the dancefloor to the tunes of our teenage years.

The hall even smelled like a teenage gym hall disco - amazing.

The music, provided by the Electric Dreams Roadshow, was so spot it, it was perfect actually. And they had a huge screen where they projected all of us making fun fools of ourselves as well as running music videos from the greats of that wonderful decade.

We danced to Wham, Deelite, Duran Duran, S'Express, Guns n Roses, Tiffany all those greats. And as the night wore on and the alcohol took more of an effect on our limbs the dancing got wilder and looser.

There were some bustin moves on the dancefloor that night - I saw a young gentlemen dressed as a Wall Street Banker from the 80s (think Michael Douglas in Wall Street) breakdancing in the middle of the dancefloor, a circle of females around him cheering him on. He wasn't the best breakdancer I've ever seen, but he tried and God loves a trier!

We even had an almost perfect and full remake of the Footloose theme tune dance from a young man, who I'm sure wasn't old enough to remember the movie or the song!

And would you believe it we had a visit from Slash himself!!! Yes the guitarist from Guns n Roses paid a visit to our wee 80s disco, where he stashed his guitar under the table while he imbibed quite a few cans of fosters - certainly living up to his image!

He took to the dancefloor only once that night - when the dj, in the great man's honour, played Sweet Child O Mine.

Accompanied only by his trusty guitar and a couple of adoring fans, Slash slowly shook his snake hips and strummed along to the song on the edge of the dancefloor more like a shy and retiring fan rather than a rock superstar legend.

Slash Visits MVC 80s Disco

Many of our other partygoers had come as famous people too, we had a couple of Madonna's circa Get into the Groove, Maverick and Goose from Top Gun, Michael Douglas in Wall Street, one half of Salt 'n' Pepa (who described herself as a 'pregnant ghetto princess'!), Crockett from Miami Vice taking tickets at the door and a couple of Tina Turner-alikes behind our bar (and they both looked gorgeous).

Other fancy dress outfits included rara skirts, Live Aid t-shirts, lots of neon, jumper dresses, lots of colourful stillettos, batwing tops, doc martins, shoulder pads and legwarmers galore.

Believe me, if you wore it in the 80s it was worn in Mayfield Memorial Hall that night with a great rush of reminiscing and a whole lot of the feelgood factor.

Below are a some more pictures of the night so you can all see what you missed if you stayed at home that night.

The Carnival Street Market and More...

2009-09-23T08:04:00.000-07:00

Saturday's Bonfire Boyes & Belles street market saw MVC fundraisers spreading the Mayfield Village Centre word among locals.
And the locals loved the idea of a brand new village hall offering all the amazing facilities that the MVC will. They also loved the 80s music quiz.
Winners of the quiz were Kim Watson and Katherine Scott of the Mayfield’s Flower House who were the only ones to get a full score. Congratulations to them – they really know their 80s music!
While joint second place was taken by Jenny Waters and Dan Colbourne who both got a very good 13 out of 15.
Also at the Carnival Street Market the MVC 100 Club winners were announced and they were: 1st Mrs Lyn Willis, 2nd Mr & Mrs Ian Rutherford and 3rd Mrs Molly Stooks. Congratulations goes to all of them.

Julie Cole and Jeanette Hore manning the MVC stall at the Carnival street market on 19th September

Coming up – November 6th - “For What It’s Worth” a fascinating 'antiques roadshow' evening but with even more in-depth information than you ever see on the TV in the Memorial Hall.
The evening will be hosted by Michael Hore, a former Sotheby’s valuations expert, and now the owner of The Chester Valuation Company which is based in Mayfield.
If you’ve any antiques bring them along to this evening (a maximum of two antiques per person please) and Mike, who has 40 years experience in the antiques business, will give some informal valuations. He’ll also talk about his specialist subject in fun, fascinating and informative way; he may even raise a chuckle or two. He also promises to discuss some of the antiques brought along on the night.
The evening will also have a quiz, so gen up on the antiques world before you go along.
Tickets cost £6 including superior savoury nibbles and are available from Burnetts Estate Agents in the High Street.
And remember, all monies raised by the night will go towards the new Mayfield Village Centre which will benefit you, your children, their children and their children, sportspeople, musicians, orators, local groups, theatre groups, book fanatics, historians and so many more.
For What it’s Worth, November 6th at 7pm for 7.30pm in Mayfield Memorial Hall.

Did You Know – the new Mayfield Village Centre plans to provide the village with a larger library offering increased resources and IT facilities.

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