INAUGURAL MEETING: 27 AUGUST 2021
What a great afternoon we had last Friday for the first proper meeting of our new group. Sadly about half a dozen had sent their apologies, but we needn’t have worried as 18 people dropped in including six visitors, three of whom, Sheila, Dave and Jannine, we hope will become regulars. We had asked that members bring a friend along and we’re thrilled that Linda née Tyrrell, who wrote the long poem of childhood in the 50s for our Sprotbrough book, and Trish née Lyth, daughter of John Lyth, the vicar of St Mary’s Church for so many years, who both now live away, arrived with John Walton and his brother, Richard. We hope others from home or away will decide to join us in future. The meeting opened with a welcome to friends old and new by Cynthia, our delegated, but honoured chairperson, and continued with a Health and Safety check by Mick, as required by the church authorities, in his new role, which he has taken on in addition to already being chief furniture remover. All the u