St Marys Catholic Church, Cannock, is celebrating 100 years as a church, and the Archbishop of Birmingham was on hand to help mark the occasion.
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00:00St Mary's Church in Cannock and Father Webberby, this is your church?
00:03It is, yes indeed.
00:04Very special guest we've got here, who have we got?
00:07The Archbishop of Birmingham, that's the Most Reverend Bernard Longley.
00:14And Bernard, you're here to bury this rather fantastic looking time capsule, that's right isn't it?
00:19It's a very special day and I'm really pleased to be with all the parishioners here
00:23at St Mary and St Thomas More in Cannock.
00:26This time capsule will be buried here in memory of today, 150 years of the parish,
00:33100 years of this church and we've visited both the schools today as well,
00:38St Mary's and St Thomas More School, so it's been a lovely day I must say
00:42and this I think will be a real commemoration for the local people.
00:46What's your gardening skills like?
00:48Are we going to find out?
00:50I'm better at filling in than digging in.
00:51Well that's a good job, that's a good job.
00:53Father Wetherby, what does it mean to the parishioners to have the Archbishop here today?
00:57A lot on gathering.
00:59It's a wonderful occasion, it crowns a lot of the things that we've been doing during the year,
01:04many many activities and many different things and it really is the icing on the cake,
01:09let's put it like that.
01:10Cool, well we won't be filming the burial as such because it's a kind of a secret location isn't it,
01:15but no doubt by the end of tonight that capsule will be safe and buried here at the church.
01:21Well thank you gents and all the best with the event as it continues, thank you.
01:24Thank you very much indeed, thank you.
01:26What's your name ladies?
01:28Sheila.
01:29Sheila and?
01:30Carol.
01:30Hello ladies, so we're here at St Mary's Church and it's 100 years of the building.
01:36Yes it is.
01:37So that magical time capsule's being buried.
01:40Yes.
01:40And what's in there, do we know?
01:42Oh well there's a lot of, there's a timeline in church
01:46for the priests that have been in this parish.
01:48Yeah yeah.
01:49Since the church was built.
01:51Yeah.
01:51So we're hoping to put all that onto a memory stick
01:55and amongst having that we want, we've had other celebrations to do.
01:59Fantastic.
02:00And this garden.
02:01Well yeah I mean I thought it looked very spanking new.
02:04Yes.
02:04So you've had a, well if we come around there we've got the new bench, the graveled area.
02:09Yes.
02:09The beautiful statue here has been turned around to face the parishioners as they come into church.
02:14That's right and all this here is completely new.
02:19Yeah.
02:19They've worked on that, the children from school, both Thomas Moores and the St Mary's
02:26have planted these.
02:27How lovely.
02:28And just round the side here you can see all the pretty stones.
02:31Little painted stones.
02:32And they've painted the stones.
02:33Yeah.
02:34It just makes it look so lovely and our lady's looking over us this way so.
02:39So how long have you ladies been involved with the church here?
02:42Oh Carol.
02:42Me, 60 years.
02:44Wow, okay.
02:45And I think I must be about 40 now.
02:48So between the two of you we've got the hundred years haven't we?
02:50We are 40 some years.
02:52Yeah.
02:54To commemorate the jubilee of St Mary's Church,
02:59let us remember also to give thanks for those who have fashioned this garden
03:05from their love of the Lord and the labour of their hands.
03:09One, two, three.
03:11St Mary's.