THE meeting was opened by Irene Bromilow, who thanked Olive Lee for the flowers. Tea hostesses were Eileen Williams and Dorothy Hall.

The Reverend Chris Stafford thanked us for our donation to the Parish Hall Building Fund.

Dates for diaries: October 19, group meeting, Parish Hall, Culcheth; November 2, All The Ordinary Angels, Royal Exchange; December 6, shopping trip to Chester.

Next month we will be asking for volunteers to help at St Rocco's stall at Birchwood on November 23 and 30.

The coffee morning at Jean Riley's house in August had been a great success.

Our speaker was Barbara J Foster, a volunteer at Dunham Massey in the education department. Barbara, dressed as Mrs Collins, the real housekeeper at Dunham Massey in 1890, regaled us with the transformation of a party of today's schoolchildren into Victorian servants and how they were taught their duties - making food, cleaning the silver and doing the laundry and to speak only when spoken to.

Our shopping quiz to win an old recipe, was won by Joan Ellison. The raffle winners were Mabel France, Dorothy Hall, Margaret Bridge, Barbara Alldred and Peggy Chesworth. The next annual meeting will be on October 12 at 7.30pm. Geoff Scargill will be our guest speaker and his talk is entitled I never really left school. All are welcome.