List of Members/Former Members and my memories of them (by Angela Lansbury)

From the 1990s onwards the membership list included about 30 paid or promising to pay members.


1998 Member list 

ADDIS, Yvonne

ARDEN-WHITE, Babs

ARMOUR, John

BLUE, Karl (Karl Blau)

BOSTOCK, Geoffrey

GERRY, Jacqueline

HELLER, Jill

HOWARD, Keith

HOWARTH, Pamela

LANCASTER, Julia

LANSBURY, Angela

LETON, Bernard

PHILLIPS, Lynn

RICHARDS, Diane

ROBINSON, Robin

RUSSELL, Ivy

SINGER, Gerda

UNDERWOOD, Julia


COMMITTEE

Chairman

Barbara Arden-White

Vice-Chairman

Bernard Leton

Treasurer

Gerda Singer

Minuting Secretary

Jacqueline Gerry

Achivist

Karl Blau (which is German for blue)

1st Ordinary Member

D Richards

Secretary


Others from 2000

Myra Arnold

Benjamin Brian


I, writing under the name Angela Lansbury, later played bridge with Myra Arnold and her husband in their bright new bungalow, with my father, Albert Lansbury.

Yvonne Addis wore a kilt or tartan pleated skirt, white socks and black shoes. 

She brought a packet of crisps (Americans call them potato chips) to the Christmas party and summer part held at the home of Barbara Arden White.

Gerda had a German accent. She wrote a wonderful story about a spider afraid of Hoover (vacuum cleaner). It was a metaphor for the holocaust. She was not on the Kindertransport but came over to the UK to escape WW2 with little except a suitcase.


Jackqueline Gerry kept cats and left promptly at ten to go home and feed the cats dinner and let them out for the night. If the meeting ran over time she was annoyed and got up and left. I think at one point, possibly on dark winter evenings, her husband would drive up to collect her in the car. He would not park in the car park but stop right outside the door so she would not keep him waiting. It was unfair to him and to others who wanted to park there befiefly for the same reason to drop off or collect people. 

Jill Heller was the retired head teacher of Grimsdyke junior school nearby in Hatch End. She was soothing and diplomatic. She took the trouble to send off our entries to contests in one big envelope.

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