The car is now a beauty and we were allowed to sit in it, blow the hooter and generally examine every nook and cranny, pictured are our president Rose Barker, Rev. Garry and Margaret Cook a member who was born in the same year as the car!
On a sweltering July evening, Denstone W.I. were treated to an extremely entertaining talk by the Rev. Garry Higgs. Garry's talk was entitled " How old am I?" and a large clue was parked outside in the shape of a 2025 gleaming Rolls Royce. We were shown lots of picture clues to the year of its birth, Ramsay MacDonald, Benny Goodman's big band, a postage stamp, to name a few. Some of us managed to guess the correct year, 1934, Garry then explained how his father bought the car after he retired, he had spotted it on e-bay and persuaded Garry to go and look at it with him. Despite Garry's best efforts to dissuade him his father fell in love with and bought the car and between them Garry, his children and his father have spent years "doing it up"
The car is now a beauty and we were allowed to sit in it, blow the hooter and generally examine every nook and cranny, pictured are our president Rose Barker, Rev. Garry and Margaret Cook a member who was born in the same year as the car!
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