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A scrapbook records Lady Strickland, President, presenting the village sign, a gift from the
June Keeling with the embroidered WI, to Mr Temple Cole, Chairman of the Parish council 1961
tablecloth
information in it, and it goes right up to
1955.
“There are so many things I could talk
about but the war years tell the story of the
village with details of National War Savings
that started in June 1940 and within a year
had reached £1,325, the pairs of socks that
were knitted and so much more.
“Fruit preservation which was started in
1940 was successful in making 4,500 pounds
of jam and canning 200 tins and 100 bottles
of fruit.”
The handwriting changes through the
book and every new house that was built is
recorded along with details of all the
businesses and the important events in the
village including the deaths of men who fell
in the war, the first on 27th November 1939
and Snettisham Memorial Social Centre Jan Sexton with some of the knitting
Sports Pavilion’s dedication by the Bishop the Snettisham and Ingoldisthorpe book. Janet Lane, “many other WI group members,
of Norwich on 8th June 1950. Elsewhere in the exhibition a tablecloth villagers and a surprising number of men.”
Quite by chance, Janet Lane called in at was on display that had names of WI My husband came to the exhibition with
the Torc bookshop in the village on the day members embroidered on it along with many me and readers may not be surprised to hear
of the exhibition and picked up two books scrapbooks that had been compiled over the that he made a beeline to the well-stocked
about the WI – one of which was published years plus photographs and knitted items. cakes and bakery table. His verdict –
in 1977 and it included extracts from many “We’ve had a lot of visitors today, said delicious.
of the WI books around the county including