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Our third evening on this theme was once again very successful and was held in the Meeting Room, which provided a more intimate and warmer environment than the church, particularly after the very cold weather.

Our speakers were all very entertaining with their memories of Meldreth and for two of them before they came to the village. Dorothy Pepper described her embarrassment when trying not to look newly married on honeymoon in the Channel Isles when she handed in her Ration Book with Dorothy Wright on it. Michael Walford was an aspiring conjuror in his teens and was asked to give a charity performance at the Dorchester - arriving with his mother when to his embarrassment he saw a banner over the door "Michael Walford the Boy Wonder". John Gipson spoke on changes in the church, automating the clock winding and also managed to touch on bells just a little - recently he rang a peal to mark the 70th anniversary of his first peal at Meldreth aged 16. Robert Elbourn has copies of cine film of the Palmer / Elbourn family dating back before WW2 and we saw clips including a wedding at Holy Trinity in the late 1930s when the grass was waist high in the church yard, threshing with a traction engine and a parade through Meldreth possibly linked to Empire Day at the end of the war.

We are most grateful to our speakers for the entertainment they provided - the History Group kindly recorded the evening and hopefully there will be a CD available in the near future.