Over 60's Club
The first meetings of the Over 60s Club or as it was known then The Old Peoples Welfare Club were held in the BB Hut. These first meetings were organised by the local nurse, Nurse Minns and were held in the afternoons from July 1950. There was no heating or water so a tea urn was brought in by Dykes of Stowupland.
Contrast those early meetings with the 21st Anniversary Party which was held in the evening in the Village Hall in May 1971. Over a hundred people attended and refreshments included cake and sherry!
50 years ago, on May 4th 1971, the O60’s Club held their 21st birthday party. I don’t know if they had 21 candles on their cake but shown here are 3 of their founder members, Mr S Bowyer, Mrs M Stevens and Mrs V Henderson. The club had started life in 1950 as the Old People’s Welfare Club with its first meeting being held in the BB Hut on 11th July 1950. By the 1960’s Jack Carter was president of the club and often gave talks on Local History.
In 1964 the local press reported on a talk given by Jack Carter to the O60’s. Jack and his wife Ena appear to have made a good team. She researched the history of our parish and further afield whilst he talked about it. In this talk Jack related that in Henry VIII’s reign Stowupland was comprised of 6 manors and Jack ‘suggested that the present Green was made up of pieces of all these manors given as common land by all the Lords of the manors.’
