April 14th 2016

Bygones (Special Open Evening)

Robert Manton (Bert) is a local exponent of Rural and Woodland crafts, ranging from corn dollies to the disappearing skill of hedgelaying. Bert's knowledge is wide. With a variety of historical information and objects, Bert provides an interesting variety of talks and presentations.

Interactive - Bert will be bringing an array of artefacts for us to peruse and to discuss their uses.

Members -  please bring a friend to this meeting. Everyone is welcome to share in this interesting talk.

Non members will be asked to pay £4 which will include light refreshments and a raffle ticket

Review of the Evening 
As the evening was an Open one to include husbands and friends, members were sent or were given a copy of notifications, prior to the meeting. 

The 41 items were set out on tables and we were given 45 minutes or so to peruse, guess and write down, in the form of a quiz, our thoughts on what they might be. None were particularly obvious so we had a good laugh trying to work out what they could possibly have been used for. 

Robert (Bert) Manton (right) 

After the time had elapsed we had refreshments which included delightful cup cakes baked by volunteers. The raffle numbers were drawn and 6 lucky winners took home some delightful prizes.

Raffle Prizes 

Bert and his assistant, Gabrielle, an Italian student on work experience, then told us the uses of the various artefacts which ranged from scythe sharpeners, a cucumber straightener, racing pigeon clock, gadgets for every conceivable job on a farm, workshop, garden or even a kitchen. Winners of the quiz were Jane Treharne and Kathryn Hayward.

Competition:  Not this month