Alison was born in Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham, the middle child of five (she has an older brother and sister, and a younger brother and sister.) When she was 7 the family moved to Winchmore Hill in North London. Both her parents, as well as two of her grandparents, were teachers, and Alison vowed she would never follow in their footsteps! So on leaving school she went to Manchester University to study Pharmacy, and after graduation got a job at the London Hospital. She was living in Southgate and, having become a Christian while at university, was attending Christ Church Cockfosters. This was where she met Tony who had also just graduated from Oxford and was living in Winchmore Hill. They were married in March 1974.
In their first 17 years of marriage they had 8 different addresses. Tom was born in Durham (1977), Martha (1979) and Naomi (1981) in St Albans, and Esther (1985) in Bedford. After taking 11 years out of work to care for the children, she decided it was time to think about going back to work, and at last the teaching gene demanded to be appeased. For a year Alison commuted from West Swindon to Westminster College in Oxford, to qualify as a primary school teacher, and then taught in schools in Swindon and Oxford. She discovered a particular interest in early years Mathematics, which was to become the area of her doctoral research, successfully completed through the Oxford University Department of Education in 2000. By then she had also moved on to become a teacher trainer, lecturing first at Cheltenham, and then at Oxford Brookes University.
It was quite a surprise, after years of being a vicar's wife, to feel a vocation to ordination; but when she tested this vocation she was quickly recommended for training, and joined the Oxford Ministry Course which she has just completed, having thoroughly enjoyed a change to part-time studies in academic and pastoral theology.
Alison has now lived in Marston for longer than she has lived anywhere. She is very much looking forward to beginning her ordained ministry at St Nicholas, at the same time as continuing her lecturing job for the time being.
St Nicholas Marston Diary of Events |
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| July 16 | 7.30 p.m. PCC meeting |
| September 24 | 7.30 p.m. PCC meeting |
| November 26 | 7.30 p.m. PCC meeting |
| August 26 - 29 | Children's Holiday Club: Miracle Makeovers Details |
| September 28 | Harvest Festival |
| October 5 | Ordination of Alison Price |
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| February 4 | 7.30 p.m. PCC meeting |
| March 18 | 7.30 p.m. PCC meeting |
| April 27 | 7.30 p.m. Annual Parochial Church Meeting |
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