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The Traditional British Holiday

Friend to Friend Newsletter June 2012

Do you remember the

typical British holiday? It

was usually at a famous

seaside resort in July or

August when the schoolholidays were taking

place. A lot of fun could

be had at the famous

Punch and Judy shows or

a donkey ride on the

beach.

Traditional things to eat

were Candy Floss and a

stick of rock with the sea-

side resorts name all

down the middle of the

rock. Not good for teeth!

Building sandcastles was

also a favourite activity for the

children and parents alike.

Sometimes, dad even got bur-

ied in the sand.

Some of the favourite resorts

were places like Blackpool,

Bournemouth, Scarborough

and so many more too numer-

ous to mention. And the weath-

er? Well usually wet but we

didnt care as we always had

lots of fun.

Inside this issue:

Traditional British Holiday 1

Denby Dale June and WalkingGroup

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Rag Rugging at Kirkroyds

Holmfirth Project Group

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Geoff has reached his peak 3

Holmfirth Project 1st June

Holmfirth Project 15th June

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Old Meltham History Group

Fund Raising Group/FoodSafety Training/ Honley

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Marsden Diamond Jubilee 6/7

Slaithwaite Stage Company

Slaithwaite Junior Stage Com-

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Answers to last months quiz 10

Old Money Quiz

More Jubilee pictures

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Denby Dale Walking Group

This month, Mrs. Priestley, a long time National Trust member came to remind us of the NT prop-

erties in Yorkshire. She had slides to show the superb views and build-

ings that belong to the NT.

Fountains Abbey was the most prominentone as it has a lovely Visitor Centre with the most important cafe and re-

furbished toilets, grounds and lakes to walk round (I always think water

makes a difference) and also it's up in't Dales. Of course there are pic-

nic areas at Brimham Rocks and around Malham tarn, but not this

'summer' thank you. Our nearest one, Nostell Priory, has had a makeo-

ver in ths stables and that has a nice easy walk around the lake

side. Some good ideas for outings there.

After a quick quiz to test our knowledge of the Royal family, Vicki from The Kirkburton Centre

came to inform us of some courses she runs to get us up to speed on the computer.

There is abeginners course and a more advanced one, so no-one misses out. There was a bit of discus-sion about ipods and ipads but it was never really sorted.

So, quick quiz winners were Tony Fisher and Joan Aukland and the raffle prizes went to JoanAukland and Joyce Brook.Julie Barber

It's a good job that some people are good at making up a'plan B' and that they know their way around. Unfortu-nately this week there was a transport mix up so our quickthinking leaders soon came up with another idea - Howabout Pennine Garden Centre instead of GreenheadPark? No problems there. Of course we had to have a bitof exercise before the tea and cakes, so we wandereddown through Pilling House and the over the tracks toStation Road where volunteer drivers picked us up in theircars and wafted us on to Shelley. Lucky with the weatheragain we seemed to be always standing under the rightcloud. Sometimes there was a bit of wind-chill and at oth-ers it was warm, but no rain! Suits us.Roll on Old MoorJulie Barber

Denby Dale June Meeting


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Geoff has reached his peak!

Holmfirth Project Group - Meeting at Holmfirth Library

We made a great creative

start this month with our new

project working together with

the Kirkroyds Infant school,

year 7 children in Holmfirth.

We will now continue to meet

weekly with two Friend to

Friend members, a volunteer

and 6 different children, to

produce the Olympic rings in a

rag rug using old cut up t-shirts. When we have finished

in about 13 weeks time, the

rug will be displayed in the

school. We have had a great

response from the children

who have enjoyed learning a

new skill. Most of them have

commented, that they would

like to stay all night in school

to carry on working on the

rug.

who came and to the library

for playing host.

The group wanted to meet

people from the community

and arranged a meeting at

Holmfirth Library on 19th

June

2012. The 1950s clothes in-

cluding a wedding dress and

two veils and tiaras were on

display with mementoes lent

by members and others from

the 50s. Friend to Friend

members dressed up in their

tiaras and some visitors were

interviewed and recorded.

Photographs taken by mem-

bers will be on display on our

web site along with examples

from the interviews in due

course. There was plenty of

conversation and a lot of

laughs. Thanks to everybody

are 283 Munros the most well

known isBen Nevis, the highest

mountain in theBritish Isles, with an

altitude of 1,344 metres (4,409ft).

Geoff is now a completer that is he

has now climbed (bagged) all 283

Munro Peaks well done to him we

wave our walking sticks in salute to

your fantastic achievement.

We would like to extend a huge con-

gratulations from Friend to Friend to

Geoff Taylor- one of our volunteer

walk leaders for Denby Dale and bus

driver for many of our groups trips

out, and his family on bagging the

Munros.

AMunrois

amountaininScotlandwith a height

over 3,000ft (914.4m). They are

named afterSir Hugh Munro, 4th

Baronet(18561919), who produced

the first list of such hills, known

asMunros Tables, in 1891. AMunro

topis a summit over 3,000ft which

is not regarded as a separate moun-

tain. As of the 2009 according to the

Scottish Mountaineering Club, there

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Doreens daughter and Janetsfriend Doreen.

Judy prepared a lovely lunch ofCoronation Chicken (of course)

and fruit sponge with syllabub.Jason gave the royal toast and

Shirley Boardman led us in RuleBritannia.

After lunch, Harvey came to singand play to us music of the 50s.There was some singing alongand a bit of dancing.

Altogether a memorable cele-

bration of the Jubilee.

Diamond Jubilee Celebra-tionThis was a very great successwith everyone entering into the

spirit of the thing.

Volunteers worked very hardfrom early on decorating thePhoenix with lots of red whiteand blue and our Heritage Lot-tery banner. Also on display awedding dress and other1950s dresses belonging toMarie Beaumont

Our members made a real ef-

fort with their outfits and sport-ed tiaras and other headgearprepared earlier. Winnie hadon a super banner made from2 tea towels you wouldnt

have guessed.

David Cockman showed aDVD with a royal theme thesignificance of hats and otherheadwear - especially theCrown.

Our M.P. Jason McCartneyand his chief secretary Sallycame to join us as did Isobel,

Mary Drakes daughter,

Holmfirth Project 1 st June 2012

Holmfirth Project 15 th June 2012 We were back at work on our Diamond Years project but started off with a DVD David Cockmanhad kindly put together of photos of the Jubilee celebration. Shirley Simmonds had taken individ-ual photos of the members in their finery and where suitable these will go on the cover of thescrapbooks.

David and Jim Robison then talked to us about how they see the tiles part of the project working.

The purpose of this was to generate ideas about suitable local areas/landmarks/artefacts whichmembers could photograph with Davids guidance. These photos would then be the basis for tilesto be produced with Jims help.Jim had brought some examples of his ceramics and David some photos to inspire everybody which it seemed to do.

After lunch we had the great Smartie tube opening Smarties supplied by Joan and Winnie,

Smarties enjoyed and the tubes filled with money. A lot of earnest counting & piling of coins went

on. With more tubes still to come back, the total so far is more than 120. So well done every-body. Shirley S also brought along the first of her plants they all went and raised extra for F to F

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Old Meltham History GroupAt this months meeting we had a cutting

and sticking session to fill up our life story

books. We also had a quiz on old Yorkshire

dialect sayings such as; corfurus intmorn-ing- or berragerrontbus.

Heres a Yorkshire poem by Joyce Haigh:

Write it downI go tshops an cant remember

What it wor I cem to buy

I stand an think an other folk

Just nod an hurry by

Make a list my family sed

So as well as I were able

I wrote it down an off I went

But left tdamn thing on ttable

I wrote it on a luggage label

An tied it wi some string

Upon my bag an do you know

I didnt forget a thing

Fund Raising GroupGill Evans, a Friend to Friend volunteer

has started a new group that will meet

together on a regular basis to raise

funds for all the Friend to Friend groups.

At this months meeting on Thursday 5th

of July they will be a speaker from Not

just a trading company, who will speak

to the group about selling ethical and

fair trade products at events as a way of

raising funds. If anyone is interested in

joining the group, please ring the Friend

to Friend office on 687773 and ask to

speak to Jane who will give you more

details.

Food Safety TrainingFriend to Friend will be holding a Food

Safety training course on the 23rd

of July

at the Holmfirth Methodist Church at

9.30 to 4pm. The course is open to all

volunteers who are involved with the

preparation, cooking or handling of food.If you would like a place then please

contact the Friend to Friend office on

687773..

Honley GroupNumbers were up despite the weather. For starters we had a quiz of the news from

the last couple of weeks. I was quite surprised to find that only one person in the

room knew of Englands progress on the Euro championship and that nobody knew

the name of Harvey Smiths horse. Acronyms were next on the list. Did you know

this one? TEPID Tastes Expensive, Pension Inadequate, Dammit. There were

lots of discussions and memories and these were followed up by several humorous

poems. Shirley


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Marsdens Diamond Jubilee Celebration June 7th

Hello everyone we do hope that you all enjoyed the Queens Diamond Jubilee Celebrations. It did

seem to create a good community spirit with so many people celebrating both at home and at lo-

cal events. The television coverage of the various national events held in and around London

was very good indeed and perhaps gave a sense of the nation coming together to celebrate

Queen Elizabeths long reign.

Marsden Friend to Friend had been planning for the event for some weeks. Firstly, we decided to

have an indoor street party in the Mechanics Institute where we hold our regular sessions. Then

the members suggested that we could wear tiaras or crowns at our indoor street party. We

searched the internet for ideas and found some gold coloured card crowns; we purchased 20

crowns in total and we were very pleased with them when they arrived after all who could resist

20 gold crowns for 4.99 (ha ha). The next step was to decorate them with plastic jewels.

Grace Joyce Liz (Volunteer)

We devoted a session to embellishing our crowns and everyone was delighted with the finishedresult; we think they looked great. Above - Grace, Joyce and Liz model samples of the crowns.

They look quite regal wearing the crowns - dont they!

We had agreed to have a buffet lunch at our party and Janet, the manager of the Mechanics,

kindly allowed us stay from 10.15am until 1.45pm rather than our usual 10.15 until 11.45. There-

fore we had time to decorate the room with flags, bunting and balloons and also the tables with

union jack table cloths, serviettes and such like. Everyone brought some food for the buffet and itlooked just delicious.

Enjoying our jubilee party lunch


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We had lots of salads, quiches, sausage rolls, sandwiches, cakes, cup -cakes, biscuits and

Audrey made a superb trifle. The buffet looked really appetising and everyone was soon tucking

into the food, we all really enjoyed our celebration lunch - as can be seen by the photographs!

Also, there was enough food left for our members to take some home for their tea.

We played background music from the 1950s during the session which was certainly appropriate

for our celebration. We knew all of the songs but had fun trying to remember who sang on partic-

ular records!

Members enjoying Audreys trifle Cynthia in her jubilee tee shirtThe members and volunteers Liz, Shirley and Cynthia had a lovely time. It was a very good way

to celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee. We had good food, good music and good company

what more can one ask for! I am sure that we will all have such nice memories of the celebration.Thanks to everyone for helping to make it such a special session.

Finally, a special mention goes to Dorothy who has been ill recently but is now recovering and

was able to attend the celebration. It was lovely to see you again Dorothy we really enjoyed your

company!

Cynthia Phillips

Friend to Friend

Unit 8 Bridge Mills

Huddersfield Road

Holmfirth

HD9 3TW

Tel: 01484 687773

Www.friendtofriend.org.uk

Email: [email protected]


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Answers to last months quiz about the Queen

The Queen has attended every opening of Parliament except those in 1959 and

1963. Why was this? She was pregnant with Andrew and Edward.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have sent approximately 45,000 what

over the last 60 years? Christmas cards

There have been how many popes during the Queens 60 year reign? SIX

The Queen has sent how many telegrams to centenarians in the UK and the

Commonwealth during her 60 years: 175,000+

Royal Yacht Britannia was decommissioned in which year? 1997

In 1974 the Queens trip to Australia and Indonesia was interrupted and the

Queen had to return to the UK. The Duke continued with the programme in

Australia and the Queen rejoined the tour in Indonesia later. Why did she re-

turn? A General Election in the UK was suddenly called and she had to re-

turn to Britain.

Why was the Queens visit to the Republic of Ireland in May 2011 such an im-

portant and historic one? It was the first visit by a British monarch since

Irish independence.

In which year did the Queen attend her first FA Cup Final? 1953

How many ships has the Queen launched during her reign? 21

In which year was the first royal walkabout? 1970

In which year of her reign did the Queen NOTmake a Christmas broadcast?

1969 - a repeat of the film Royal Family was shown and a written message is-

sued.

What is the significance of this address for the Queen? 17 Bruton Street, Lon-

don W1. She was born there.

What did the Queen learn to do in 1945? She learnt to drive.

What is the date of the Queens birthday? April 21st

Which item of the Queens jewellery came from the Clogau St Davids mine

near Dolgellau in Wales? Her wedding ring.


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Old Money Quiz

Do you remember the days of pounds, shillings and pence? All those

lessons at school when we had to remember that there were 12 pence

in one shilling and twenty shillings in a pound. The nightmare of maths

lessons working out these complicated amounts. This quiz tests your

knowledge and memory of our old money (and you thought you had

put those days behind you). All you have to do is work out the amount

for each clue and write it in the boxes opposite, then add up the total.

Some of the answers might be slang for a particular coin, others are

perhaps a little comic, so beware! One has been done for you to give

you an idea. Good luck!

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A Stone

Poorly Sea Creature

Royal Headgear

Mans name

Worker of Leather

Mode of Transport

Type of Pig

Jupiter, Saturn,

Girls name 1Penny

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