Bob Ash's Memories - Christmas
The Seavingtons News - December, 96
CHRISTMAS IN SEAVINGTON WHEN I WAS YOUNG
There was always great excitement and plenty of things going on at Christmas in Seavington when I was young. For several weeks under the supervision of Miss Rachael Kiddle and Miss Ethel Skenfield, our school teachers, we were busy rehearsing the Nativity Play that would take place in the Village Hall, a timber building bought from the War Department after the 1914-18 War and situated alongside the Vicarage in Upton Road.
The Church Choir of which I was a member and those days consisted of at least 20 Choristers of all ages would meet 2 evenings a week for about 3 weeks to practice the Anthem and Carols to be sung at Christmas. The Choir was conducted by Rev Harry Naish, our Vicar, with Miss Kiddle organist.
On the day the school closed for the holiday period all the children went to Church for a Service.
At home I can remember with my 2 brothers helping my father with the decorations, we did not have a Christmas Tree in those days but a large mistletoe which was hung from the ceiling decorated with tinsel, etc. Christmas Eve was a busy time with my mother preparing the vegetables, grown by my father in his garden, and the cockerel that my father has reared, that is if he had not won any poultry at a Whist Drive in the Village Hall the previous week.
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