Clubs and WI reports

Gosforth WI

CELDHARB THE Fabulous Fifties was the theme of the talk that a group from Gosforth WI enjoyed at the Beacon on August 3. It was indeed fabulous!

Last updated 11 August 2010
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Woodend & District WI

AS THE date of the July meeting clashed with the Federation 90th Celebration Event at Greenhill, it was cancelled; any urgent business was discussed at our coffee evening the following Thursday.

Last updated 11 August 2010
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Bootle WI

PRESIDENT Gillian George welcomed members to the July meeting.

Last updated 11 August 2010
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Cleator WI

THE Cleator WI meeting took place on July 13. Mary Gregg, President, welcomed everyone to the meeting and also thanked everyone for their cards in respect of her 90th Birthday.

Last updated 11 August 2010
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Antiquarian & Archaeological Society

MEMBERS of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society: South West Group recently enjoyed a fascinating tour of Egremont Castle given by Rachel Newman of Oxford Archaeology North, Lancaster.

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Calder Sew and Sews

THE meeting on June 16 was our annual strawberry tea. To add to the treat a member, Betty, had made up kits to make a small fabric strawberry just the right size for a key ring or a small pair of embroidery scissors.

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Santon Bridge WI

THE July meeting was well attended. P Eldred read out a letter received from our link in New Zealand, with two lovely post cards enclosed.

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Seascale WI

OUR July meeting was held in the Windscale Club and was chaired by Judy Hall.

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Moresby WI

NORMA Lockhart chaired the June meeting and asked for a minute’s silence to be observed for those who were affected by the shootings of June 2.

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Whitehaven Probus Club

THE first sod was turned in 1693! – declared Phil Hazelhurst, general manager of the Rum Story, as his opening salvo in his account of the Jefferson family.

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Moor Row Jubilee Club

OUR club was opened by chairman John Allonby. We had a thank you card from Lily Hurst’s family – Lily, who died at the end of April, was one of the stalwart early members of our club.

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Cumbria Wine Society

DID you know that Georgia was probably the source of the world’s first cultivated grapes?

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Lamplugh WI

WE went very traditional and started our meeting with Jerusalem, which was sung with great vigour, before Brenda Shaw read out her lovely poem from the Granada Collection.

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Waberthwaite WI

A SELECT group gathered at our July meeting. Several members were on holiday and apologies were received from them and others.

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Seascale WI

THE June meeting began in a sombre mood after the dreadful events of the previous week’s shootings.

Last updated 21 July 2010
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Woodend & District WI

PRESIDENT Mrs Eleanor Graham welcomed members to the June meeting.

Last updated 21 July 2010
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Seascale WI

JUDY Hall, our President, welcomed two members of Gosforth WI to our May meeting to explain resolution for the Cardiff AGM that food labelling of all meat, poultry and fish products sold in this country should show their country of origin. This was carried unanimously.

Last updated 8 July 2010
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Whitehaven Rambling Club

ORGANISED by Margaret Jackson, 47 members of Whitehaven Rambling Club recently spent a long weekend in Scotland on the West Highland coast, based in the busy fishing and ferry port of Oban.

Last updated 7 July 2010
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Whitehaven Flower Arrangers

WE began our meeting at Rosehill Theatre with a silence for the victims of the dreadful shootings in our area.

Last updated 7 July 2010
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Decorative & Fine Arts Society

AT the beginning of her illuminating and engaging lecture to the June meeting of The Cumbria Decorative and Fine Arts Society, Terry Pearson assured her audience that there was little misery in misericords.

Last updated 7 July 2010
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