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Our September meeting (Wednesday 1st September) has the title "Serving time" and we are pleased to have as our speaker, Erwin James (http://erwinjames.co.uk/) the prize winning Guardian journalist.

Despite the lazy days of summer (sunshine not essential!) members of Warmingham WI have continued with a full programme. Their August meeting was a really entertaining look back of the 90 years of WI’s history. It was presented as an archive tableau by members of Woodford WI, who presented a key events in the world at large set against key events in WI of the time. The story continued up to the minute. For those of us fairly new to WI it was fascinating and for everyone it was illuminating and amazing to hear how forward thinking the members of WI have been. All in all it was a fitting element in the “time” theme of Warmingham WI’s 2010 programme.

Warmingham WI’s September meeting is a real coup – and is attracting visitors. The meeting (1st September at 7 30pm) has as its topic “Serving time” and acclaimed and prize-winning journalist and author, Erwin James, has agreed to come and speak. . He will draw on his experiences to explore the role and impact of custody as a measure for reducing crime and the number of criminals. The September meeting will be open to others, but anyone wishing to come should make contact with Warmingham WI as places are limited.

Warmingham WI is now featured on the Warmingham village website (www.warmingham.org.uk) and details of meetings and events are available on the website in the WI section.

Visitors are always welcome, without having to commit to joining. We often have visitors, and many of them stay! The meetings take place in Warmingham Village Hall (CW11 3QN) at 7 30 pm on the first Wednesday of each month.

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Warmingham, Cheshire

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Saturday, 3 July 2010 in 2h47 (10-0-0)

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For Warmingham WI’s July meeting the Village Hall was full and busy. The speaker for the evening was Christine Driver of Empress Mill. She brought with her a range of examples and colleagues to illustrate the development and work of the Mill (over three generations so far). Today they produce and sell over a hundred colours in a wide variety of threads. They also sell a full range of haberdashery. It proved a really interesting and absorbing evening.

At the same meeting Warmingham WI welcomed a party of WI members from Wetley Rocks. It was a lively meeting of minds and interests. To mark the occasion Wetley Rocks were presented with a decorative sample of local salt. It is planned to have a reciprocal visit of Warmingham WI members travelling to Wetley.

The August meeting of Warmingham WI (on Wednesday 4th August) has a focus on the 90-year history of WI and will be framed around a Tableau presented by Woodford WI. It should be interesting for members – but also for anyone wondering about, or wanting to know more about WI.

Warmingham WI are already finalising arrangements for September’s meeting (Wednesday 1st September), when well known Guardian journalist, and author, Erwin James, is coming. He will draw on his experiences using the title “Serving time” to explore the role and impact of custody as a measure for reducing crime and the number of criminals. Already there has been quite a bit of interest from other WIs and other folk in the area who would like to come for that meeting. The September meeting will be open to others, but anyone wishing to come should make contact with Warmingham WI as places are limited.

Warmingham WI is now featured on the Warmingham village website (www.warmingham.org.uk) and details of meetings and events are available on the website in the WI section.

Visitors are always welcome, without having to commit to joining. We often have visitors, and many of them stay! The meetings take place in Warmingham Village Hall (CW11 3QN) at 7 30 pm on the first Wednesday of each month.

Old Hough, Forge Mill Lane. Change of Use of Former Worm Bed Area to Storage for Caravans. Comments by 4 August.

Warmingham WI’s time theme for 2010 hit new heights with the tremendously successful “Wartime remembered” meeting. Folk dressed in clothes that would have been seen in at the time and the village hall probably hadn’t seen so many turbans and hats in many a year. The hall was decorated and there were displays, including a number of real artefacts belonging to members and their families. Music played as people arrived and there was arousing sing song to end the evening.

There were a number of speakers: Mary Langhorne talking of her time in Bletchley Park during the war; a member who’d been in the land army locally and another who had been in the fire service talked of their experiences. In addition a (male) war veteran shared some of his memory. It was an enjoyable, informative and thought provoking evening.

The theme for the evening also meant that refreshments were made to war time recipes and the raffle prize was an austerity hamper.

Many shared their memories of the experiences that they or their parents/grandparents had recounted. There was much remembering of the range of activities in and around Warmingham during the war.

Warmingham members continued the wartime theme when a party visited the National Arboretum the following week.

The next monthly meeting, on Wednesday 7th July is “A stitch in time” with Christine Driver.