Community invited to join in Christmas Carols

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This year's Community Carols, organised by Churches Together in Wilmslow, will take place on Saturday, 20th December.

It will be held in the garden opposite the library starting at 3pm.

Kirsty Thorpe (Revd) minister of Wilmslow United Reformed Church explained "It's a 'Silent Night Carols' event, linked with others around the UK that commemorate the 1914 Christmas Truce on the western front in World War One. As well as singing carols we will remember the way football united opposing armies for a brief moment in 1914 and pray for peace today throughout the world.

"Everyone is welcome to join us to sing the carols."

St Bartholomew's Silver Band will be accompanying the singers.

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Andrew Backhouse
Wednesday 17th December 2014 at 2:40 pm
I'm really pleased that Kirsty will also be referring, at the carol event, to work done by a Wilmslow woman towards peace at Christmas 1914. The wife of the local MP was a Quaker and a suffragette who helped write and signed a letter from the suffragettes of Britain to those of Germany and Austria to see if they could do something together to promote peace. It got a reply signed by over 140 Germans and Austrians and led to a peace conference at the Hague in 1915. Not surprisingly, it did not stop the war, but at least it showed friendships between women at a time when governments were not on speaking terms.