Category: Photos

From the Bridge (Bridge 196 Trent & Mersey Canal) Marbury Park, Northwich (updated 29 January 2026)

A series of photos taken from Bridge 196 over the Trent & Mersey Canal at various seasons over a few years. All © Andrew Pratt 2026

Thank you to the Canal & River Trust for maintaining this beautiful place

Montage of views from Photoshop © Andrew Pratt

New Year – from darkness toward light – As constant as the pulsar’s pulse

New Year – from darkness toward light - As constant as the pulsar's pulse - a hymn for the first Sunday in the New Year or for a Watchnight Service

1 As constant as the pulsar's pulse, 
 as certain as the rising sun; 
 in darkness love will never die, 
 nor horror snuff our human worth. 

2 The sounding of a baby's cry 
 as suckling, taken from her breast, 
 demands a mother's full concern, 
 so you have heard our hoarse lament. 

3 Our cry goes out through all the world, 
 through this and each succeeding age; 
 your glance returns our wanting gaze, 
 and none escape your light or love. 

Metre: LM Tune: HEREFORD (Wesley)

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948) 
Words © 2002 © Stainer & Bell Ltd, 
London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . 
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local church use on your CCL Licence returns. 
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Image (c) Andrew Pratt 2025

When evil gathers in the wings – A hymn for Remembrance at a time of international tension

When evil gathers in the wings  - A hymn for Remembrance at a time of international tension

1	When evil gathers in the wings 
	the time of crisis offers choice: 
	to rise with courage and resist 
	or keep our silence, still each voice. 
	What shall we do when chaos reigns, 
	act out God’s love? Submit to chains?

2	As history echoes from the past, 
	while memories can tend to fade, 
	‘lest we forget’ let us recast 
	the hard decisions others made: 
	to live the love that Christ had shown, 
	self-sacrificial, Spirit blown.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2019 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd
Metre: 8 8 8 8 8 8
Tune: ABINGDON