by Maggie Pankhurst | Dec 16, 2021 | News and Events, Ullesthorpe WI
On Thursday 9th December members of Ullesthorpe WI celebrated their 95th Anniversary. The first ladies met on December 8th 1926 and the President and founder was Beatrice Seale from the village. It was a very thriving group with lots of activities, trips and...
by Maggie Pankhurst | Oct 18, 2021 | News and Events, Ullesthorpe WI
The Ullesthorpe W.I. held their October meeting at the Ullesthorpe Village Hall, where our speaker was Ginny Davis, whose entertaining talk was ‘To the Fringe and Beyond’. Ginny was a former translator and barrister and she is now a writer and...
by Maggie Pankhurst | Oct 11, 2021 | News and Events, Ullesthorpe WI
Ullesthorpe WI has at last returned to some form of normality. Members met for an afternoon tea in the garden of a member and then held their first meeting in the village Hall on 12th August. The speaker was Nick Syderham from the Canine Partners Association. He...
by Maggie Pankhurst | Jul 9, 2021 | News and Events, Ullesthorpe WI
The Ullesthorpe W.I. held their July meeting on Zoom again, hopefully for the last time!, when Jane Isaac gave an interesting talk about her life as a novelist. Jane writes crime and psychological thriller novels and is based in Northamptonshire. ‘The Lies Within’...
by Maggie Pankhurst | Jun 17, 2021 | Ullesthorpe WI
The ladies of the Ullesthorpe W.I. had another zoom meeting in June. John Florance, retired BBC Radio Leicester presenter gave a very interesting talk about Sir John Betjeman. Sir John Betjeman was born in 1906. He became well known during the fifties, sixties...
by Maggie | Apr 12, 2021 | Ullesthorpe WI
The ladies of the Ullesthorpe W.I. met in April on Zoom to hear an interesting talk by Julia Wallis about Honey Bees and Beekeeping. The United Kingdom consumption of honey is 43 tons per annum, of which 95% has to be imported. Bees are very...
