Stowmarket Plough Service
Jan 17, 2012 - 09:53 AM
The Fund was privileged again to hold a Plough Service in St Peter’s Church, Stowmarket. Our thanks go to Rev’d Michael Eden, the Churchwardens and everyone that made us so welcome. A procession gathered outside the Museum for East Anglian Rural Life, with friends from the museum in period costume and pulling a horse plough, accompanied by vintage tractors and machinery. After winding through the town the plough was brought into church to be blessed. Our thanks also go to Lisa Harris, Collections Manager at the museum for reading the first lesson and to Roy Barker, representing Suffolk farmers, for reading the second. We have been invited to return again next year on Sunday 13th January 2013. If you would like to hold a similar event in your church, we would be delighted to hear from you.