Our speaker this month is Lynne Dixon, a geographer by background who slid seamlessly into an interest in history via teaching and family history. Her research on the women of the Well Hall Estate followed a project volunteering at the Greenwich Heritage Centre transcribing some WW1 love letters. Lynne’s now writing a book on an architect and builder, vicar’s wife Annabel Dott.
Women of Progress – Women of the Well Hall Estate in the Great War
The Well Hall Estate (now the Progress Estate) was built for workers of the Arsenal in 1915. The lives of some of the working class women in this nationally significant housing are glimpsed through the pages of The Pioneer Newspaper, in the diary of a fourteen year old girl and other records of the time.
FOODBANK: We’ve had a special request from our local food bank for breakfast cereals and UHT milk this month, so if you fancy bringing something along to swell supplies that would be marvellous and we will deliver everything to the collection point.
SUBSCRIPTIONS: Our annual subscriptions are due on 1st April and we do hope you will join for another year of WI fun and friendship. Cost for the year is £44, and you can make a bank transfer to Lee Green Women’s Institute, sort code 40-04-15, account number 22084074 – please give your name as the reference. Or bring cash or a cheque payable to Lee Green Women’s Institute to the meeting where June Clark and Jan Ford will be delighted to see you.
REFRESHMENTS: Now we are back at Trinity, we have dusted off the refreshment rota. We do hope you will all be happy to take a turn doing this when your name comes up, but if you can’t do the date allocated just let Jane Verity know.
Some forthcoming events for your diary:
SATURDAY 7TH MAY 11AM – Guided tour of Ranger’s House, Blackheath. WI member, Gail Treves Brown, has offered to guide us round the fabulous Wernher treasures of Ranger’s House. Kay Dunham will be taking names for this trip at the meeting so please see her to nab a place (or email ). Cost is £10 (£9 concession), a discount may apply depending on size of the group. Free with an Art Fund Pass or English Heritage membership.
TUESDAY 10TH MAY 7PM till 8.15PM – Discover what the Blitz did to our local area with historian Paul Browning. We’re delighted to have Paul back to guide us on another walk, places are limited so if you are interested please see Jane Verity at the meeting (or email ) to pop your name on the list. Paul has very kindly said there is no charge for the walk.
SATURDAY 18TH JUNE – Exciting news, Manor House Gardens Festival is taking place again! We’ll have a stall so please pop the date in your diary if you can help with baking, selling or visiting the stall. More information to come on this.
Finally, a big THANK YOU to everyone who joined the first litter picking session of the year at Manor House Gardens at the beginning of March. Next one will be on Saturday 2nd April, meet outside the cafe at 10am – pink tabards provided, bring your own gloves.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you on 17th March.
Your Lee Green WI Committee