60th Anniversary Celebrations March 1943

APPLE DAY 2007 Fund raising for the Air Ambulance on 13^th October in Dent Memorial Hall exceeded all our expectations raising over £600. The high spot of the afternoon must be the excellent assortment of apples brought together by Peter Stevenson (husband of a member). Helping him to display them to perfection was local sculptor Pip Hall. Most of the apple varieties grow in Peter’s garden in Cowgill and he was on hand with plenty of advice for growing apples in Dentdale! Pip also had a couple of designs of apple printing for us to try and the finished efforts stuck on to card made a very seasonal notelet! The produce table was laden with apple baking of every description as one might expect! The games went down well too. How about “Pin the maggot on the apple” and “Apple Bowling” (with wind falls of course)! The Raffle, bric–a-brac stall and auction of a box of amazing looking local vegetables not to mention WI tea and toffee apples all helped to raise the good total.

60th Anniversary Celebrations March 1943 - March 2003

There was a definite sense of an occasion in the air as members and guests assembled in the Memorial hall to celebrate the 60^th Anniversary of the founding of Dentdale W.I.

The evening opened with a short business meeting but with a difference as minutes from the first meeting of March 1943 were read out!

Our President Margaret Fothergill was able to announce that the First Responder group, which the W.I. had facilitated as a project to mark the 60th birthday, had formed a committee following the inaugural AGM. and were set to go forward as a group in Dentdale.

The President and Secretary reading the Cards of Congratulations		Admiring the Cake

Soon it was time for Elizabeth Middleton who has been a member for all of the sixty years to cut the beautifully iced cake. Elizabeth told us briefly about the first President Mrs Agar who had kept an antique shop where Stone Close café is now.

Federation chairman Sheila Parkinson proposed a toast to Dentdale.

Nancy Murdoch a former President had put together an interesting collection of photographs spanning the years.

The evening was speeding by all to quickly but we still had the entertainment to look forward too. Catherine Sugden and Judith Newsham gave a demonstration of a Tudor dance they had learnt on a Denman College course. Helen Beare, Alison Toye Jennie Jones and Judith Bush then followed with a 30-minute musical programme in a variety of styles and we ended the evening with a rousing singsong.