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Well I had a great night!
Hope that everyone else did too!

Thanks to all those that came along it was fantastic to meet
you all and have a chat with you and finally put faces to names!

The Bell and Bear at Gorsty Hill did us proud I think so thanks to them too!

We should have one every year now and Sp1 may organise the next one eh Steve?
That would be good if every year someone else organises a different venue etc.

Anyway thanks again
off to sober up

As you say, it was nice to finally put names and faces together.
As for next year, ........am thinking about it!

Good night, nice meeting people for the first time, hurry up and sober up NL.

sorry i couldnt attend! birthday! i did see the police helicopter fly over the waterfall towards grosty

nl have you added to your collection of roadwork cones?

beardie

Hope everyone got home safely -- good to meet you all and put faces to names.

Thanks to NL for organising it all!

Maths girl

Had a lovely time -

We had a great turnout, it was lovely to meet everyone, can someone send me the photos to my e mail address please, I'll PM it to you if you don't already have it.

Thanks NL for organising it and thanks to Wolvie for getting us in our places for the photos, very professional - can't wait until the next one.

Maggie xxx

Great night Jan, Very friendly atmosphere and excellent venue,
Nice to meet everyone. Thanks to you and Wolvie for putting
the effort into making the evening such a great success. Thanks: Derek.

Hope you all had some cake!
I have bought the rest home loads left

was impressed with the view over the hills from the pub garden beautiful

We really enjoyed it too. It was lovely to put faces to names at last! Looking forward to the next one! xx

Northern Lass wrote:Hope you all had some cake!
I have bought the rest home loads left

was impressed with the view over the hills from the pub garden beautiful

Cake!
Oh, I wish I'd been able to come now!

Hi all It was lovely to meet everyone last night,but sorry didn't get chance to talk to all of you
Next time i will try and make it earlier,so i can chat longer,sorry i missed you Jimmy.
That was the first time i have ever been in The bell and bear,lovely pub.

It was nice to get over to The Black Country and kind of walk in the footsteps of my ancestors.

Nice to meet some people too, although I don't generally post that frequently on the forum - apart from when I have a mystery that I need to solve, and then its generally concentrated within a short space of time.

For me I got the opportunity to go to St Thomas' Parish Church in Dudley as that is where one of my earlier ancestors got married - although I have to say I imagine it was less run down then as it is now. Its a shame that it has been allowed to decay, not the church but the surrounding area.

I also got to go to Quinton where my family are from - and although all that is left is the Church and School, it was nice because the last record I have of my family in Quinton is of the 3 children being registered at the school. So to see it still standing was quite a thrill.

I'm sure I will be back as I want to dig some more around the area and maybe photograph what is there now, and how different it has become.

Oh and thanks for the lift back down the mountain, it was quite a trek up that hill.

NickToye wrote:It was nice to get over to The Black Country and kind of walk in the footsteps of my ancestors.

Nice to meet some people too, although I don't generally post that frequently on the forum - apart from when I have a mystery that I need to solve, and then its generally concentrated within a short space of time.

For me I got the opportunity to go to St Thomas' Parish Church in Dudley as that is where one of my earlier ancestors got married - although I have to say I imagine it was less run down then as it is now. Its a shame that it has been allowed to decay, not the church but the surrounding area.

I also got to go to Quinton where my family are from - and although all that is left is the Church and School, it was nice because the last record I have of my family in Quinton is of the 3 children being registered at the school. So to see it still standing was quite a thrill.

I'm sure I will be back as I want to dig some more around the area and maybe photograph what is there now, and how different it has become.

Oh and thanks for the lift back down the mountain, it was quite a trek up that hill.

young lad like you should run up and down that bank even after 5 pints

Once maybe, next year perhaps. Currently? not a chance.

Drink six pints and roll down the hill