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REME Association Potteries and District Newsletter
Potteries and District, November 2022
Scribe: Maurice Hope. Photos: John Hubbert
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The second week of November saw the Branch monthly lunch event take place at the Royal Oak public house in the Staffordshire Moorlands village of Dilhorne on Wednesday the 9th with 14 persons attending, raising the sum of £37 pounds from the mini raffle, with all funds going to our much-awaited Christmas Dinner later in the month.
With November being the month of Remembrance, our members were in attendance throughout the six towns of Stoke-on-Trent, with the main Branch wreath being laid at Stoke Cenotaph by Branch President Maurice Hope.
A second wreath was laid at Cheadle Cenotaph by Branch member John Yates, with our Branch Standard Bearer Mr Gil Mould parading at both venues, Stoke in the morning and Cheadle in the afternoon.
Tuesday 22nd saw our final formal Branch meeting of the year. Details were discussed about members of the Branch attending St Eligius Day at Beacon Barracks in Stafford Garrison as guests of a joint 16 & 22 Regiment’s of Royal Signals LAD’s on Thursday 1st of December. (As we are twinned with 22 Sigs Regt LAD).
We still plan to hold an informal “Christmas Jumper” social night on Tuesday 13th of December to finally see out the year amongst friends.
The annual Branch Christmas Dinner this year was held at The Double Tree by Hilton Hotel at Etruria House (The home of the famous Master Potter Josiah Wedgwood).
Our numbers in attendance this year were swelled by members from the Potteries Branch of the RCT Association whose membership numbers have dropped to less than 20, so we, as a Branch, offered the hand of friendship and invited them to attend our
Branch Chairman... Leading from the front! John Yates, Wreath Carrier
events and functions to enable a fellow Veterans Group to continue. This gave us 59 people attending our dinner, with members of both groups taking a leading part during the evening.
We were entertained for the second year by local singer Miss Victoria Gotham, who seems to have been adopted by Branch members, having been booked for so many events in recent times.
At the time of writing we are now looking forward to our St Eligius visit to Stafford.
