The Burton Wednesday Afternoon Club

BURTON WEDNESDAY CLUB
The Burton Wednesday club was formed some 21 years ago with the idea of friends getting together in the locality to keep in touch. The club was originally started by a few people such as Elvit Bowen, Nancy Bowen, Jack Campbell, Dylis Campbell, Betty Blight to name but a few, to give and receive pleasure in the community by getting together once a fortnight to have tea and biscuits in the 'Houghton Village Hall' to discuss places of interest, holidays etc, and generally keeping in touch as to what's going on in the area. It was decided in those early days that members should be from areas such as Hill Mountain, Burton, Sardis, Llangwm, and Rosemarket and generally around Burton parish, by and large the areas from the club have stayed the same to this day.
SO WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BEING A MEMBER OF
THE CLUB?
Members are invited to lunch at 'The Jolly Sailor' at Burton Ferry, for a two-course meal, which is altered each time we visit. The meal is subsidised by the Pembrokeshire county council, which means that at present we only pay a low cost of £4.00 each (where can you get a meal today at this price?)
After lunch, we all gather at the Jubilee Hall Houghton where we usually have a guest speaker followed by tea and biscuits, so that we can chat to all our friends, making it a splendid afternoon out. For some people, this is their only way of meeting new friends (including new ones as a result of being a member of the club).
Not only this, but we organise four day trips a year to various places of interest, and members are asked for suggestions on this subject, and what's more, the coach trips are mostly FREE- all we ask members to pay for are meals. The trips are free as a result of the club having raffles, coffee mornings etc.
At Christmas time, all members are invited to a Christmas dinner, usually at no cost again (apart from drinks) during December.
The most important thing about the club is FRIENDSHIP.
The cost of the benefits is a mere £10.00 per year (split in two parts-£5.00 every six months). You can obtain full details from any of the committee members listed below or indeed any member- WHY NOT MAKE CONTACT NOW?
Margaret Wildman- Chairman 01646 602116.
Betty Symonds - Vice Chairman 01646 600855
Jill Phillips- Secretary 01646 601709.
David Wildman ( Treasurer) 01646 602116.
Ceredwyn Jenkins 01646 600422, Hilda & Rhys Jones 01646 601193,
Ted Coles 01646 601391, Bob Chappell 01646 602065,
Marion Tudor-Williams 01646 601316

CLUB NEWS

Our visit to St Fagans on Wednesday 13th of July was a great success. We were joined by members of the local community and we all had a most interesting and enjoyable day.

Dorian Morgan Assistant Producer with BBC Wales came from Cardiff on July 6th and gave us an enthralling insight into the work of the BBC. He illustrated his talk with archives and we all had a fascinating afternoon.

On July 20th we all enjoyed a Quiz (a collection of photographs of local landmarks to decipher) collected and compiled by one of our members Gill Gill.

We started our Autumn Programme on September 14th. Margaret Wildman brought along the magnificent Rocking Horse she had made at her woodwork class over the past year. She explained to us the different processes involved in the construction.

On October 12th Derek Rees came and gave us a fascinating illustrated talk on the Old Port of Haverfordwest.

We have a full diary of events planned for the Autumn which includes a Christmas Shopping Trip to Carmarthen on Wednesday November 30th and the Pantomime "The Christmas Cuckoos Cooking" at the Torch Theatre on Thursday December 29th.

Our Christmas Fayre and Coffee Morning is on Saturday December 3rd, please come and join us.

Jill Phillips (Secretary) 01646601709.

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