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This year, we are celebrating our 50th Anniversary, having been established on 30 September 1971, and continue to maintain our role, activities and a flourishing membership. We organise monthly meetings with a guest speaker for 10 months of the year, social events and excursions in the summer, and an AGM in November. The year concludes with a very popular Christmas party, with a traditional meal of bangers and mash and baked beans – knowing we will all be over-stuffed with turkey later on! This is followed by a delicious selection of desserts provided by members, a quiz, a raffle, and musical entertainment. Like so many other community events, this lapsed during the recent Covid lockdown, but we are hoping it can be reestablished and become even more enjoyed and appreciated in the coming Yuletide season. On 30 September, for our anniversary jollification in the new Community Centre, we are planning speeches and a buffet, a celebration Drawings with watercolour, by Alan Cobb. cake, and an Courtesy of the Bungay Society. exhibition of
ust over 20 years ago, the Bungay Society was affectionately dubbed The Watchdog, when a booklet containing articles that had been published in the Society’s Journal was issued to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. The Watchdog Wags His Tail affirmed in the preface that the Society performed the role of a friendly and reliable protector, playing an important part in the community, and focusing on its chief aims, namely: • To stimulate interest in the town, and surrounding area • To promote high standards of planning and architecture • To secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic and public interest.
photos depicting Society events and activities during the last half century. A new edition of The Watchdog Wags his Tail is also planned, to include articles published in the Journal from 2000-2020. In addition to photos of events, it will include some of the attractive watercolours of Bungay buildings created by Alan Cobb, a local architect. He was a long-serving member of the Society, and gave us permission to issue framed and unframed replicas of his works to raise money for our funds. So we have much to look forward to in the coming months, and hope that both long serving members, and new faces, will share in our continued role as the town’s faithful and feisty old Watchdog!
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