Past presidents of SI South Lancashire gathered at Statham Lodge Hotel, Lymm, for their annual lunch.
Senior past presidents from as far back as the mid-1960s mingled with successive generations, as well as with those who are ‘in line’ for the regional presidency. This is always a happy occasion – good company in comfortable surroundings.
Messages from past presidents who couldn’t attend was followed by the toast to “absent friends”.
The current president, Denise Baldwin, introduced her guest speaker Elizabeth Williams, who is Vice-Chair of the Gaskell Society’s “Friends of 84 Plymouth Grove“. Elizabeth gave an informative and entertaining after-lunch account of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell’s life and achievements.
At the end of this relaxed and most enjoyable event the guests dispersed – as always, in friendship.
