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■■Canton Townswomens Guild will meet at St Luke’s church hall (opposite Victoria Park) at 1.30pm today, Tuesday October 8. This month’s speaker is Mr Stephen Rowson and his talk is entitled “Victorian High Summer on the Bristol Channel”. Entrance £2 which includes tea/coffee, biscuits and free raffle. New members welcome. Contact Mrs Brenda Boyd 029 2025 5474 for information.

■■The next social meeting of the Cardiff County Unison Retired Members Branch will be held at the City United Reformed Church, Windsor Place, Cardiff, tomorrow, Wednesday, October 9, from 10.15am to noon. The meeting will include a talk from Mr John Sheen entitled ‘Five Boys and a Pasty’. New and current members are welcome.

■■The October meeting of Roath Local History Society will be addressed by Mr Peter Sampson, chairman of the Flat Holm Society with a talk entitled “The Story and History of Flat Holm Island”. The meeting will be on Thursday, October 10, in St Andrew’s Church Hall, Penylan Road CF24 3PB. Assemble for 7.45pm with complimentary refreshments and the meeting commences from 8pm. Visitors are welcome. Please contact Roathhistory@gmail.com for further information or visit roathlocalhistorysociety.org.

■■ The South Wales Postcard Club will be holding its Autumn Postcard Fair at Penylan Community Centre, Cardiff, on Saturday, October 19, 10am to 3.30pm. Dealers from various parts of the UK will be selling and buying postcards, stamps, books and other collectables. Free valuations available. Admission £1 (accompanied children free). For further information contact Richard Phillips on 029 2069 3040.

■■ Every Tuesday afternoon in term time there is pram and pushchair for mums, pre-school toddlers and babies. Play, chat and a cuppa at Albany Road Baptist Church Hall, Blenheim Road, Penylan, Cardiff, from 1.30-3pm.