Our April meeting was scheduled for Thursday 9th and, obviously, could not go ahead as planned. Not to be defeated though, we set up a virtual meeting via Zoom and toasted seeing each other with a glass of wine or a cuppa 🙂
Freda Thompson (who had entertained us in 2019 with a talk on “Gorgeous Gosforth”) once again gave us a great presentation – this time on the history of Grainger Market. Who knew that the Market had cellars that served as air raid shelters…. or who knew that there were once spectacular fountains where live ducks swam? Really interesting and I can’t wait to get back there to look at the ceiling!
It was a shorter meeting than usual and, of course, there were none of the usual updates, raffle etc but it was really nice seeing people again.
Watch this space because we hope to continue with as much of our planned programme as possible – albeit in the virtual world!
Gosforth Central Women's Institute 