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  Quiz night November 2025

  15th November 2025

  What a spectacular night the Events team laid on for us all, starting with a delicious meal served by Culinary Delights from Edwinstowe, the Pork loin steaks were extremely tasty and I'm sure the other options were just as delicious.

  It was lovely to see Chris Neighbour there who has just lost his dear wife Wendy 🫂

  After teas and coffees the quiz started, hosted by Roy and Sue Dexter who pitched it just right, it was a very entertaining quiz with 4 rounds of 5 questions then a picture round and then 4 more rounds of 5, each round had a theme and there was a lot of head scratching around the room.

  There were about 15 teams of 4-6 people all with exotic team names and the winning team who led from the start were called 'Highly Strung', as they came from the Tennis group. The team was Jean Parry-Williams, Ann Street, Sue Coulson, John Harris, Jeff Coulson and Paul Webb, who will share the trophy for a year, and they all received a nice goody bag.

  In the interval there was a bottle raffle run by Pam and we all raised around £168 for the Air Ambulance charity

  I'd like to offer a big thankyou to the Events team once again for a fantastic and enjoyable evening, look out for the next events!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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  Clipstone Headstocks

  24th October 2025
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  What an interesting morning we all spent at the Clipstone Headstocks museum. We learned so much from Stuart about the history and the legacy of the site and about Nottingham and the surrounding areas.

  Stuart told us about Raleigh cycles and all the amazing inventions, then about the war years and the many vehicles and flying machines and also about the mine itself and all the machinery.

  There were so many interesting facts and figures, including the depth of the mine, 920 metres, the speed of the lifts, 30 mph for the descent, the amount of coal that was mined, 1 Million tons per year!

  Most of us retired to Rumbles in Vicar Water country park for a delicious variety of lunches and scones, all made fresh in the open kitchen by the talented chef

  Well worth a visit on a Friday at 11am

  https://www.clipstoneheadstocks.com

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  Barn Dance

  20th October 2025
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Dance the Night Away

  All the local u3as enjoyed a 'barnstorming' evening at the Forest Town Arena with great music and a caller to direct the dances, together with some lovely hot cobs it was great event

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