{"id":15393,"date":"2025-05-13T23:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=15393"},"modified":"2025-05-13T23:48:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:48:01","slug":"february-meeting-of-wenvoe-w-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=15393","title":{"rendered":"February Meeting of Wenvoe W.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>WOMEN\u2019S INSTITUTE<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">February Meeting of Wenvoe W.I.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Wenvoe WI met on the first Thursday of the month, and our speaker on that occasion was Mr Stephen Jones, a local Historian who specialises in the &#8216;History and work of Brunell.&#8217; Mr Jones provided us with an excellent review of Brunell&#8217;s early life. It was quite staggering to hear about Brunell&#8217;s ability to create so many outstanding features and icons of civil engineering of his day, given that this was achieved through hard graft and genius via a drawing board &#8211; minus all the benefits of our computer age. We look forward next year to another visit from Mr Jones when he will complete the &#8216;Brunell Story&#8217; (Part 2).<\/p>\n<p>Our meeting concluded with the usual business and a cuppa. Again, we welcomed yet another new member, Jackie.<\/p>\n<p>A week later the Wenvoe WI met to celebrate a \u2018late\u2019 Christmas lunch in the Wenvoe Arms, with excellent fayre and good company.<\/p>\n<p>Our next meeting is on Thursday 6th March, at 7.00pm in the Church Hall, when we shall be welcoming Joyce Hoy, one of our members. Joyce will regale us with her recent trip to Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>New members and tasters are assured of a warm welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Young (President)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOMEN\u2019S INSTITUTE February Meeting of Wenvoe W.I. Wenvoe WI met on the first Thursday of the month, and our speaker on that occasion was Mr Stephen Jones, a local Historian who specialises in the &#8216;History and work of Brunell.&#8217; Mr Jones provided us with an excellent review of Brunell&#8217;s early life. It was quite staggering to hear about Brunell&#8217;s ability [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[420,37],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-40h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15151,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=15151","url_meta":{"origin":15393,"position":0},"title":"January Meeting of Wenvoe W.I.","author":"Alan Williams","date":"8th February 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"WOMEN\u2019S INSTITUTE January Meeting of Wenvoe W.I. 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