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FRIENDSHIP CENTRE - The next meeting will be the AGM on Thursday, May 15 at 10am at Lickhill Community Centre, Memorial Park, Stourport. The speaker will be David Cox on the Dunsley Murder.

Outings are being arranged for Cardiff on June 5 and Eastnor Castle on August 7. Further details from Doreen on 01299 401081.

CAMCORDER CLUB - The AGM was held on April 15 at Franche Road Baptist Church. Treasurer Bob Black reported on the club finances, during the year a new digital projector had been bought. Secretary Roger Jordan reported on the year's meetings, and success in competitions, especially with Derek Saunders' natural history videos.

Chairman Martin Humphries thanked the committee, proposing Bob Black as the new chairman. Other officers and committee elected for the ensuing year are: vice-chairman Bill Every, treasurer Mike McConville, secretary Roger Jordan, programme secretary Mike Rendell, social secretary Paul Bye, project secretary and archivist John Bryan, committee members Roy Rowles and Bill Williams.

Suggestions for the 2008/9 programme and social functions were discussed.

The club is now in recess until September.

RAMBLERS ASSOCIATION - The group will be having a nine mile walk from Mordiford on Sunday. Meet at 8.30am at Glebe Farm, Stone, or opposite Mordiford School (OS reference SO571375).

Telephone Bob and Shirley on 01562 745048 for more details. Bring a packed lunch.

SEVERN SIDE RAMBLERS - A walk of about eight miles duration around Bridgnorth has been organised for Sunday.

Ramblers are asked to meet at the Memorial Park Gates, Park Avenue, Stourport, at 9am prompt. Transport can be arranged. New walkers will be made welcome.

For further details call John on 01562 631448 between 6pm and 7pm.

NATIONAL TRUST - The speaker at the April meeting, held at Hagley Community Centre, was Catherine Beale on champagne and shambles - the Arkwrights of Hampton Court, Herefordshire.' In 1955, every five days, a house of distinction and significance was being lost. Houses were being demolished or left to go to ruin. Land had been the bedrock of status and there was a great dependence on agriculture, but from 1874 to 1897 a sequence of bad weather resulted in poor harvests. Landowners could not compete with the large grain economies of scale in the USA. Imports doubled and prices fell.

The Arkwright family's fortunes reflected the downfall of the landed aristrocracy. John Hungerford Arkwright (1833-1905) was the largest landowner in Herefordshire. He was related to Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning frame. He was also a keen violinist, heping to promote the Herefordshire Philharmonic Society.

Arkwright invented and patented a fruit box or tray. He managed the estate in a paternalistic way, but mounting difficulties saw him struggle.His son Sir John Arkwright (1872-1954) had to put the estate on the market and it was sold in 1912.

For more details about the Wyre Forest group of National Trust members, call the centre's secretary Marjorie Fernihough on 01562 883460.

7:58am Thursday 8th May 2008

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