Tag: Blackpool

Our newsletter from Elaine

Our next meeting is on Monday 21st July 2025 at 7pm in the Holiday Inn, Talbot Road, Blackpool. The guest speaker is Claire Walmsley-Griffiths a local photographer who you may have seen at events.

Forthcoming Visits

Our next outing is to look around the Backlot Cinema at 11am on August 12^th.  Rachel will have the board out for you to put your name down at our meeting next Monday (21^st) at 7pm at the usual Holiday Inn.

Next Monday is also your chance to pay your £20 for our coach trip to the two Lancashire Mills on Thursday 4^th September.  After next Monday it will be sent out to other organisations to fill up the coach. Seats on the bus will be booked on a first come with the cash basis!

Forthcoming Events

Also, from next Monday onward, tickets will be on sale (again £20) for our Afternoon Tea Awards ceremony in the Winter Gardens’ Spanish Hall on January 22^nd 2026 – our 51^st anniversary – at 1pm for a 1.30pm meal.  Yes!  I know that sounds a long way away but do you want to pay £20 in the middle of buying Christmas presents?  At the speed this year is going it will soon be Christmas!!!

Remembering Loraine Calvert

Finally, on a sadder note, I do hope that a lot of you make time in your busy schedules to say goodbye to our friend Loraine Calvert.  Loraine (yes, it is one ‘r’) worked so hard for the Blackpool Civic Trust both as a member and a Committee Member for such a long time that she deserves our proper farewell now.  Through ill health, Loraine had been ‘off the radar’ for the past few years but it didn’t mean that she had been forgotten.

The funeral is at St Stephen on the Cliffs at 12 noon this Friday (18^th) before being taken to Carleton Crematorium.  The wake is being held at the Norbreck Bowling Club, Clovelly Ave, FY5 1RZ and all are welcome.

If you are coming to the wake, I would be grateful if you would let me know by tomorrow (Tuesday) please as Corrine, Loraine’s daughter, needs numbers for the catering.

Claire Walmsley Griffiths Guest Speaker

If I don’t see you on Friday, I do hope I see as many of you as possible on Monday.  Our speaker is Claire Walmsley, a local performance and heritage space photographer.  I am really looking forward to this as over the past number of years Claire has been there with her camera at so many events that I have attended.  I am sure that this will apply to a lot of you when you see her and I think it will bring back happy memories for many of us.