Just to get  this open,  a few words from our sponsor !  Seriously,  hopefully we will have some notes about all our meetings in due course,  sort of letting people know what went on.  With some of our "booked"  performers,  all we have is their name and subject. Their performances are awaited with bated breath.  We'll try to add a bit about the ones past too, in a little while.

Although the Society is "based around" Edwin Waugh,  he is not the only one of "The Old Masters" whose memory we cherish and whose works we read and enjoy.  Ben Brierley, Ammon Wrigley, Sam Fitton  ---  the list goes on. And in fact,  it isn't all dialect either.  Edwin Waugh himself started writing in standard English and the greater proportion of his writings are such. 

The most important recent happening and a rather sad note on which to open this new venture,  was the death of our much loved previous  Secretary,  Ann Ridgeon,  who died on Saturday 3rd Feb. 2007 aged 88.  About another month and she'd have made her 89. The service was at Rochdale crematorium on the 9th and afterwards there was a meal at 'The Riverside', the new Whitworth Civic Hall of which Ann was so proud.  She handed over the reins to Alyson about 12 months ago having been  our Society Secretary for umpteen years.  She was known to many people in many fields .