“Nothing such as was seen at Woodnewton on 5^th June will be seen there again for another century.

At the service in church, the Archdeacon, Venerable Mark Towndrow, preached an address very sound and easy to listen to, on what he tells me is a pet subject, Church Schools.

The School exhibition of Victorian things was opened with some wise and well-chosen words by Mrs Oxenham, the Chairman of the County Education Committee, and the exhibition itself could have occupied any of us for a week.

In the afternoon, the picnic tea on the playing-field was blessed with glorious weather.  The impressive array of Victorian costume, some of it surely genuine, much of it cunningly improvised, took us right back through the years.

The play in the evening was much enjoyed by all who saw it.

There was such effort made to re-create what happened in 1876, but there were some modifications, among them the fact that it was not possible this time to give a lunch-party in the vicarage and tea in a marquee on the lawn; but Mrs Turner did the next best thing by dispensing large quantities of sherry and biscuits to an unknown number of people. Another difference was that a hundred years ago there was no Care and Community Association to organise the arrangements and to the tremendous amount of work necessary to make the occasion the success which it undoubtedly was.  To Miss Darvill, the prime mover of the Centenary, and to the help which the Association gave so ably and unstintingly, does much credit for a memorable and happy occasion.  Thank you, everyone, who played any part.

I seem to be doing a lot of thanking this month, but it would be a funny world where nothing was ever done which deserved any thanks!  There are more to come:-“