KAREN welcomed everyone with good wishes for 2015.

Details of forthcoming events were given including a visit to Stroud Brewery on March 27 and the Luncheon Club on January 30.

Round One of the County Quiz will be held at Bisley – the date to be given later.

Those who had attended said the GFWI carols in Cheltenham were very good and festive and all had enjoyed our Christmas meal at The George, Birdlip.

Details will be given later in the year of a fund raising event towards buying a defibrillator for the village.

As a start to holding a monthly competition fun was had trying to identify members of the committee from photographs from their childhood.

Len Taylor had brought a lot of photograph and postcard albums of, for example, local people, buildings, events, house sale advertisements and the local countryside of Eastcombe and Bussage from 1905 to the present day.

It was an amazing collection and extremely interesting both to those who had lived in the area for a long time and to relatively newcomers.

Time passed very quickly as everyone moved around the hall looking at Len’s collection.

Members contributed their own memories of the past identifying a lot of people in the photographs and reminiscing over events illustrated.

Everyone agreed it was a fascinating evening and Len received warm thanks.