DISCUSSION GROUP – Change of date
Our June meeting will now be on Thursday 29th June 1.30-3.00 not Thursday 22nd as previously advertised, so that we can have our wonderful chairman Bert Dowell available to keep us in order.
Our topic will be Happiness – Your view a more light-hearted subject before we have a break for the summer. Join our friendly group at Melling Tithebarn to have your say and air your views over a cup of tea or coffee.
Due to unforeseen circumstances the meeting on Wednesday 7th June has had to be cancelled. The group will have a summer break in July and August and restart on Wednesday 6th September.
Thanks to members for your support during the last eight months.
It was a glorious morning and off we went to Wirksworth in Derbyshire. This is an ancient town but not as well known as Buxton, Matlock etc. However, it is steeped in history and served a good glass of wine at llam in a terrace cafe, in the sun Hic! Some of our group had a guided tour of the town with Sally from the Heritage Centre, some “
wandered” and we had a look at the Well Dressings. This form of decoration is steeped in history, all done by locals with natural materials and is unique to Derbyshire. On to Masson Mill, for some lunch in the reasonably priced restaurant and a guided tour of Richard Arkwright’s Cotton Mill built in the the l700’s. How clever and forward looking, were the
people to have sorted out those spinning, weaving machines and no technology to help them. On our way home we sat on the coach waiting for” the cows to come home” literally. It must have been a huge dairy farm as there were plenty of cows. It was a warm, sunny pleasant day and good value at £15.
The walking group met yesterday in the village of Barley, Lancashire, set at the foot of Pendle Hill, an area renowned for the history of the “trials” of the Pendle Witches some 400 years ago. During an era of religious persecution and suspicion they were the convenient scapegoats of the day. One group stayed down in the valley and took a route around Black Moss Reservoirs and the Pendle Sculpture Trail, which has ten ceramic plaques representing each of the Pendle people who were hanged. The other group took to the hills, and took the steady climb through beautiful heathland, to the summit of the hill which is 1827 ft. (557 metres) above sea level.