THE ROTARY CLUB OF CHURCH AND OSWALDTWISTLE
ROTARY in Church and Oswaldtwistle, held its 68th Charter Anniversary Dinner last Friday at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel.
This annual event is seen as the highlight of the club’s social calendar, representing the birthday of its Charter.
Several important guests were present, including Rotary district governor-elect Mary Bradley and the deputy mayor of Hyndburn, Coun Mohammad Ayub and deputy mayoress, Noreen Ayub. They contributed to a splendid turnout of 100 attendees.
Rotarian Richard Wallwork gave a very humorous welcome to the eight visiting Rotary clubs and other supporting organisations present.
The Rotary clubs attending were Accrington, Blackburn, Darwen, Great Harwood and Rishton, Padiham, Rossendale, Clitheroe and Whitehaven Castle.
Speeches were, as planned, kept to a minimum, but it was pleasing to receive the thanks from the deputy mayor, who congratulated the host club for the various projects ongoing throughout Church and Oswaldtwistle. Likewise, the district governor elect, spoke very favourably on what Church and Oswaldtwistle Rotary was achieving, in all areas of Rotary service.
President Lyndon Heap, gave his thanks to all members of the club but singled out Rotarian Doreen Lawton, who was the lead person on the organising charter committee, leading up to the successful event.
The Dunkenhalgh Hotel deserve the highest praise for ensuring the service and quality of the meal was first class, without doubt they contributed to the evening being a huge success.
Assistant governor Ian McTurk said: “I am very proud of my club for presenting such an excellent evening, this charter celebration requires a great deal of planning and it is important that the evening runs smoothly.
“I am very pleased for president Lyndon as he can take the praise for overseeing an entertaining and successful evening.
“The entertainment provided by Gavin Young was of the highest standard.”
ACCRINGTON CAMERA CLUB
MEMBERS were entertained with a feast of black and white when we were visited by Andy Marland at our last club meeting.
Andy brought along his show ‘mechanical landscapes’, in which he shared with us his love of industrial monochrome images.
Concentrating on the North – Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria and North Wales – he projected a number of photos from various locations, explaining what he had been trying to achieve and how he used different types of shots – such as wide angle scenes, close-ups, framing subjects and men at work – to portray different aspects of the location and give a more rounded understanding to the viewer of what the location was like than one or two isolated or similar images would have done.
Among the locations were Huncoat power station, a slate mine at Dinorwic, coal mines, cooling towers and mills in varying stages of decay.
Some were in colour but the vast majority were monochrome – shown using our new projector part paid for by sales of our Accrington 2018 calendar.
Andy also brought along a small selection of prints and two books he has produced on the subject.
He proved to have a good eye for a picture and his use of angles and perspective produced some interesting and entertaining collections of work.
At tonight’s meeting (Friday) we have one of our own members, John Barton, illustrate how he converts colour to monochrome.
John is particularly known for his architectural interiors but also landscapes.
It starts at 7.45pm at The Hyndburn Academy, Stourton Street, Rishton.
Visitors and new members are most welcome.
Please see accringtoncameraclub. org.uk for more details.