![St.Mary's church](graphics/00.JPG) |
This is St.Mary's church, next door to where we met
at Holy Trinity Social Club. We often start
these reports with a note of the weather and you can see
that it was a fine and sunny Spring day, with the
flowering trees and shrubs doing their best. |
![Reg Aston and Henry Metzger](graphics/01.JPG) |
Inside the hall, preparations were under way early.
Reg Aston gets instructions on the technicalities of
Henry Metzger's tv and video set up. |
Reg had already set up his display of photos about
Education In Bilston. Here are three of the boards
... |
![display of photos](graphics/02.JPG) |
... and here are two more boards and large display
folders containing even more photos - but you can't
really see them for Eric and Wynn Woolley and other
members. |
![Eric and Wynn Woolley and other members.](graphics/03.JPG) |
![Just one of the photos - this one of special interest because it shows Holy Trinity School](graphics/03a.JPG) |
Just one of the photos - this one of special
interest because it shows Holy Trinity School, which had
been in the hall just next to the hall we were in. |
![Megan and David Fitzgerald-Plummer](graphics/04.JPG) |
And, of course, tea had to be ready. Megan and
David Fitzgerald-Plummer make sure it is. |
On arrival members set about a nice cup of tea,
dispensed by Kath Kiely. |
![a nice cup of tea, dispensed by Kath Kiely](graphics/06.JPG) |
Alma Darby,
Barbara Presland and Bill Pope check everybody in - and
it did seem to be everybody, as the room was full. In
fact 107 people were counted in |
![Alma Darby, Barbara Presland and Bill Pope](graphics/07.JPG) |
|
![the headmaster appears from his study with a cup of tea](graphics/09.JPG) |
Various educational stereotypes were wandering
around: the headmaster appears from his study with
a cup of tea; and a scruffy schoolboy stops tearing the
place up for long enough to have his photo taken. |
!["a scruffy schoolboy"](graphics/08.JPG) |
![John Workman and John Goalby](graphics/10.JPG) |
At the more respectable end of the spectrum John
Workman and John Goalby get the world organised. |
![Barbara Presland sells raffles tickets](graphics/12.JPG) |
Barbara Presland sells raffles tickets to the
assembling throng. |