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Harold Macmillan 1957-63
Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1963-64
Harold Wilson 1964-70 and 1974-
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Edward Heath 1970-74
James Callaghan 1976-79
Margaret Thatcher 1979-90
John Major 1990-97
Tony Blair 1997-2007
Gordon Brown 2007-2010
David Cameron 2010 - present
Tony Blair was the first Prime Minister to have been born
during The Queen's reign. He was born in early May,
1953 - a month before the Coronation.
The Queen has owned more than 30 corgis during her
reign, starting with Susan who was a present for her 18th
birthday in 1944. A good proportion of these have been
direct descendants from Susan. Her Majesty currently
has three corgis – Monty, Willow and Holly.
Marking 60 years of The
Queen's reign, the Diamond
Jubilee celebrations will
centre around an extended
weekend in 2012 on 2, 3, 4
and 5 June.
The Queen came to the
throne on 6 February 1952
and her coronation took
place on 2 June 1953.
She celebrated her Silver
Jubilee (25 years) in 1977
and her Golden Jubilee (50
years) in 2002.
Facts about the Queen:
Did you know…
The Queen is the second long-
est serving monarch. Only five
other kings and queens in Brit-
ish history have reigned for 50
years or more. They are:
Victoria (63 years)
George III (59 years)
Henry III (56 years)
Edward III (50 years)
James VI of Scotland (James I
of England) (58 years)
The Queen is the fortieth mon-
arch since William the Con-
queror obtained the crown of
England.
Over the reign, Her Majesty
has given regular audiences to
12 Prime Ministers.
They are:
Winston Churchill 1951-55
Sir Anthony Eden 1955-57
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 60 Years
The Queen also introduced a
new breed of dog known as
the "dorgi" when one of Her
Majesty's corgis was mated
with a dachshund named
Pipkin which belonged to
Princess Margaret. There
have been 11 dorgis - Tink-
er, Pickles, Chipper, Piper,
Harris, Brandy, Berry, Ci-
der, Candy and Vulcan.
DIAMOND JUBILEE 1
DENBY DALE GROUP HONLEY GROUP
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MELTHAM GROUP 3
MOSAIC EXHIBITION 4
HOLMFIIRTH PROJECT MEN’S GROUP MELTHAM OLD HISTORY GROUP
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MARSDEN GROUP 6/7
OLYMPIC TORCH IN HUDDERSFIELD RAG RUG MAKING SKIPTON TRIP
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ANSWERS TO LAST MONTHS RIDDLES
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JUBILEE QUIZ 10
Inside this issue:
Friend to Friend Newsletter May 2012
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Spring is sprung, or so
some say. Seemingly
you have to be out on
the right day or under
the right bit of sky, to
avoid the April 'showers'
or downpours - however
you want to put it. But
we were certainly under
the right bit of sky for
our first walk this year.
We were booked to go
to Cawthorne Park and
on the Monday I
thought we would just
be looking round the
farm shops and going
for our tea in the
cafe. But no! We were
able to do all that and
take a walk round the
garden and watch the
ducks on the
pond. There only
seemed to be drakes
about so we wondered
if the ladies had better
things to do than swim-
ming up and down the
pond. The garden was
lovely with loads of tu-
lips actually standing
upright and bluebells
coming on the path
sides. As I said Spring
is sprung, so if you
would like to join us,
just get in touch with the
office.
Julie Barber
Denby Dale Walking Group
Honley Group
the farm shop. We
later decided to move
on to a warmer envi-
ronment and travelled
to Armitages Pennine
Garden centre at
Shelley for afternoon
tea and some retail
therapy. It was a lovely afternoon though and every-
one seemed to enjoy it. Thank you Shirley for sorting
it all out for us!
Suzanne
In May, we had a lovely trip to
Cannon Hall which was orga-
nized by Shirley. We met at
11.30 and arrived in perfect time
for lunch. The portions have to be
seen to be believed as Eileen’s
‘chip butty’ shows! Unfortunately,
the weather was not too kind to
us and only a few of us braved
the rain to see the rhododen-
drons. Others spent some time in
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Meltham Group
The Training of Guide Dogs
Our speaker today was Margaret Kenworthy with trainee guide
dog, Tia, who was a Golden Labrador. The puppies are taken
from their mother’s & siblings at 6 weeks old. The puppy trainer
keeps the puppy for 12 months before the puppy goes onto fur-
ther training in Lancashire. The guide dog has to have a good
character & ability to lead. People are pack leaders & they have
to obey.
The puppies are now trained to go on the underground in Lon-
don. As puppies they are carried around in rucksacks so they
can get used to the busy streets & the noise. In supermarkets &
at bus stops they have to sit patiently. Flashing lights, lifts &
bridges with water flowing, the puppies have to develop con-
centration. Most dogs don’t care for lifts.
If there are steps, they put their front paws on the first step, this means “steps up“. To sit at
the top means “steps down”.
The dogs are fed on dried food so the blind person hasn’t to open tins. They are also not al-
lowed on furniture. No begging for food is al-
lowed. Not allowed to fire work displays or
fairgrounds. To match a dog to a person is
very difficult.
The cost of training a dog is £10 a day. 11
children a week will lose their sight. Brown
harnesses are worn whilst in training & white
harnesses when trained. Margaret & Tia were
thanked by Richard to great applause.
Our members enjoyed a lunch of Chicken Su-
preme with vegetables. Fresh fruit salad &
cream for dessert. The raffle was drawn by
Arnold & Richard.
In April two of our members celebrated birth-
days. Dorothy Lodge celebrated her 90th &
her husband, Arnold celebrated his 93rd birth-
day.
A big thank you goes to all the volunteers who
helped on the day.
Jenny Allgood
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We all have a story to tell — Mosaic Exhibition
An exhibition of work produced by mem-bers of the Friend to Friend groups is now on display at the Northlight Gallery in Armitage Bridge. It is well worth a vis-it! On Friday May 4th, the exhibition opened with a lunch for the ladies in-volved and other Friend to Friend mem-bers. Artist Anna Todd assisted mem-bers with a series of unique mosaic pic-tures reflecting their life stories. Anyone who can get along should really try as the work is a wonderful example of what can be achieved even when you think you are too old to learn! It is open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 4 pm. Well done to all those in-volved. You should be very proud of your achievement.
There is still time
to go along and see
the exhibition.
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Holmfirth Project
Holmfirth Project 18th May
After an enjoyable trip on the 4th to North Light
Gallery it was back to work at the Phoenix.
The group was divided into two, so that two
small groups worked in turn on making tiaras
ready to celebrate at our Jubilee party on 1st
June. Shirley Boardman , with a bit of help
from Janet, had cut strips of silver card which
members glued together & decorated with se-
quins & tinsel ‘jewels’. They look very effec-
tive though a certain amount of glue went
where it shouldn’t!
When not getting all stuck up, the ‘other ‘
group worked with Jill and Shirley to get pre-
pared for the Diamond Years – producing arte-
facts to do with fashion and getting ready for
taking oral histories from each other and other
people.
Men’s Group Due to the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations on Tuesday the 5th June,
there will be no Men’s Group meeting on this day. The next one will
be on the 19th June as usual.
Meltham Old History Group
Our theme for this month was travel and transport and we were reminiscing
about our holidays from the 1950’s to the1970’s. We talked about day trips
and holidays to the coast and the how popular holiday camps were such as
Butlins. You can see what sort of holiday this was like if you can get hold of
a few episodes of a BBC TV series from the 1970s/80s called 'Hi de HI'.
It was after the end of world war two that holiday camps really had their
golden era. People hadn't been on holiday for many years and some children
had never seen the sea. Life had been incredibly hard and the public were in
need of fun and entertainment. The holiday camp provided all this and more.
With swimming pools on site, entertainment in the evenings, competitions
including ‘Glamorous Granny' and ‘Knobbly Knees'. The camps offered all
the right ingredients for an excellent and affordable family holiday.
We then finished the session with an, ‘identify the 1950’-1980’s cars quiz’.
The traditional
British holiday is
a seaside holi-
day. Children
used to watch a
Punch and Judy
show and ride
donkeys along a
beach.
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Marsden Group Hello and best wishes to everyone from the Marsden members and volunteers Liz and Cynthia. We at Marsden are absolutely delighted to hear of Shirley’s nomination, from the Holmfirth and Honley groups, for the Huddersfield Examiner award of ‘Friend of the Year 2012’. The Marsden group take great pleasure in wishing you every success Shirley; your work with us has always been innovative, interesting and very good fun! Our scrapbook project has now come to an end. Our members have created some really wonder-ful books; each one is different and equally creative. The scrapbooks include memories of the past, paper craft designs, news items, holiday scenes and much, much more. They will always serve as a happy reminder of the fun sessions we had producing them. Unfortunately lack of space prevents us from including all our members photographs.
Mary, Ena and Margaret happily displaying their completed scrapbooks
We had a good ‘workout’ in our exercise session this month. We started with ‘warm up’ exercises and then used scarves tied together being passed around the circle of members. It was quite in-vigorating and also a good laugh, everyone seemed to enjoy it (see below).
We also used a beach ball to exercise our legs by kicking it to each other and throwing it around the room. Members did individual exercises with the beach ball and others members copied the exercise and then passed the ball on to the next person who again created
an exercise for everyone to copy.
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We then finished our session with ‘warm down’ exercises. It was a stimulating and amusing ses-sion which everyone enjoyed.
Shelia creates an exercise while the members look on with interest! Those of us who went to the North Light Gallery to see the Friend to Friend Mosaic Exhibition enjoyed ourselves. The members were very proud of their work which was displayed in the Gal-lery Cafe; indeed all the mosaics in the exhibition were excellent. Well done everyone! It was al-so was nice to see the other Friend to Friend groups.
Some of Marsden Friend to Friend members at the Mosaic Exhibition
Finally, we have some very sad news. Our good friend and member Elsie Lingard has passed
away. Elsie was a member from the start of the Marsden Friend to Friend group. She participat-
ed in the sessions with much enthusiasm, good humour and a helping hand when needed. Elsie
will be very sorely missed by everyone.
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Olympic Torch relay.
The Torch comes to Huddersfield on Sunday June 24th
The Torch Relay arrives on New Hey Road (A640) in convoy mode (when it is driven
and the Torch is not on display) and changes to Torchbearer mode (when the Flame is
being carried by a Torchbearer) at approximately 11.51am. It continues down Trinity St,
passing Greenhead Park crossing the ring road and into the town centre, turning left onto
Railway St and into St George's Square. The Torch then turns left onto John William St,
then left onto Bradford Rd (A641) before it changes back into convoy mode for its jour-
ney to Brighouse.
After the Torch has left Huddersfield join the celebration at
PARKFEST 2012 in Greenhead Park from 12noon -6pm.
Olympic-themed fun for all the family.
Rag rug making
A reminder that starting on the 12th June at Kirkroyd Infant School New Mill, we will be working on the Olympic Games themed Rag Rug with the children. The sessions will run on a Tuesday. Any more interested members should call the friend to Friend office and ask to speak to Jane. Telephone number is: 687773
Annual trip to Skipton Meltham
On Friday 6thJuly, the Meltham group will be making their annual trip to Skipton. This year, there are spare places available to any other groups who may be inter-ested in going along. A 51 seater bus needs to be filled! The trip leaves from Meltham and anyone joining will have to make their own way to Meltham for the coach. The total cost of the trip is £17-00 and this includes: Narrow boat ride Fish n Chips Raffle number Tips for the bus driver, café and boat. If anyone is interested and would like to book a place, please call the Friend to Friend office on 01484 687773 for a booking form.
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Answers to last month’s riddles:
A man builds a four-walled house. Each of the walls, on the outside, face due south. The
man looks out the window and sees a bear. What colour is the bear?
Which is greater - half of quarter or quarter of half?
How do you write 1000 with eight 8s?
I have a tail, and I have a head, but I have no body. I am NOT a snake. What am I?
There's an electric train travelling south. The wind is from the north-west. In which direc-
tion would the smoke from the train be blowing?
While driving a father and his son had a car accident and then were rushed to two differ-
ent hospitals. The son was about to be operated on when the surgeon said "I can't oper-
ate... This is my son!' Who is the surgeon?
What does an Island and the letter T have in common?
What falls, but does not break, and what breaks but does not fall?
What's the missing letter? J ? M A M J J A S O N D
If you drop a 10 kg iron bar and a 10 kg bag of cotton from a height of 50 meters which
will reach the ground first?
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White The only place you can build a house with all walls facing south, is directly on the
North Pole. The only bears in the Artic (where the North Pole is) are white polar bears.
Both are equal. A 1/2 multiplied by 1/4 is 1/8. Likewise 1/4 multiplied by 1/2 is 1/8
888+88+8+8+8 = 1000
A coin
An electric train has no smoke.
His mother
They're both in the middle of wa'T'er
Night falls and day breaks
The letter F (all letters represent the months and February is the missing one)
Both will reach at the same time because both weigh the same
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Quiz about the Queen
The Queen has attended every opening of Parliament except those in 1959 and 1963.
Why was this?
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have sent approximately 45,000 what over the
last 60 years?
There have been how many popes during the Queen’s 60 year reign?
The Queen has sent how many telegrams to centenarians in the UK and the Common-
wealth during her 60 years: a) 50,000+ b) 100,000+ c) 175,000+
Royal Yacht Britannia was decommissioned in which year?
In 1974 the Queen’s trip to Australia and Indonesia was interrupted and the Queen had
to return to the UK. The Duke continued with the programme in Australia and the
Queen rejoined the tour in Indonesia later. Why did she return?
Why was the Queen’s visit to the Republic of Ireland in May 2011 such an important
and historic one?
In which year did the Queen attend her first FA Cup Final?
How many ships has the Queen launched during her reign? 21 42 84
In which year was the first royal walkabout?
In which year of her reign did the Queen NOT make a Christmas broadcast?
What is the significance of this address for the Queen? 17
Bruton Street, London W1
What did the Queen learn to do in 1945?
What is the date of the Queen’s birthday?
Which item of the Queen’s jewellery came from the Clogau
St David’s mine near Dolgellau in Wales?
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