November 2025.

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Hello everyone,

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You will all be aware that our Wirral Arts Society has a number of volunteer groups.

I want to make reference to one of them in my letter this month … Church Recording.

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Denise Hill is currently coming to the end of their latest project and we hope to bring the produced book, which will be presented to the church, to one of our monthly meetings sometime.

Many of you will remember Dorothy Brining, our previous President. I was fortunate enough to meet her at the start of my committee life. Dorothy had been involved in many aspects of the society, NADFAS, but notably in the area of Church Recording. She toured the country offering training in this area to other interested societies. On her retirement a tapestry was commissioned by the various Church Recording groups to mark her achievements. For a number of years the tapestry was displayed in NADFAS House in Guildford Street.

After we heard about the sale of this property we, on the Wirral, kept a watching brief on Dorothy’s tapestry.

Here I must pay tribute to the diligence of Yvonne Woodhead, my predecessor. Yvonne established contact with Dorothy’s daughters and was able to put them in touch with the Arts Society Board of Trustees. This story has a very happy ending.  The tapestry has been restored to Dorothy’s family.

 

So, our November meetings.

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I hope to spend the day with some of you on;

Monday November 3rd.

The Post War textile visionaries of Modern Art

Ashley Gray

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Monday November 17th

 Icons: Exploring their History, Power and Enduring Mystery.

 Helen Rufus-Ward

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Judith Wheat