This autograph comes from the 1930's autograph book of Margaret and her sister Ivy Catchpole. it seems appropriate for the start of a new year. Our meetings for 2025 started with a presentation from a local carpenter Rick Lewis. Jerry will write up his talk in next month's updates but what made this talk so fascinating was his collection of images showing medieval craftsmen at work There are 2 write…
At the time of writing, mid January 2025, we have woken up one morning to see a slight covering of snow, but in Stowupland our bad weather has been freezing fog, persistent rain causing some areas of flooding but nothing like we experienced this time last year. The image of Holy Trinity Church shows the snow fall that local farmer Jack Carter recorded in his 1985 diary. 20 years ealier…
Read our December 2024 Newsletter as published in Telstar 382 with Jerry's review of Nicky Reynold's talk about the WW2 Lumber Jills or listen in to Jerry's Jabbas. For our last meeting of 2024, one of our trustees gave us a talk on local pubs. The image above shows the architect's view of our Retreat as it would look after the rebuild in the 1960s. Neil has spoken…
