BLACKET AND TURNER LTD BUFFET LUNCH

Following on from attending a coffee morning at St Nicolas Church Hall organised by the Alzheimer’s Society, Edwina Cooper and I were invited to attend a buffet lunch at Blacket and Turner, the Newbury Weekly News, by way of a thank you to those who had helped raise money for the Over-80s Parcel Fund. As it was a fine morning we decided to walk from the Town Hall along the canal towpath to Faraday Road. A great number of people use the towpath from that side of the town to go into the centre and to the Market Place, particularly when the market is operating. We were met by Jeremy Willis, the NWN Chairman and talked to other guests. There were Rotary Club members, who spend a great deal of their time and effort in raising money and distributing the parcels to the hundreds of houses where the Over-80s live. We also talked to Debbie Howes who runs the Clothes Shop in Pound Street with her mother Ann who lives near to Edwina. Jeremy Willis very kindly showed us around the printing area after lunch. The press was printing off copies of another paper and it was an awesome sight as thousands of copies were being sent around the spiral channel from the large printers. The whole operation was computerised driven and the printing facility had not reached its capacity, even though other papers in the region were printed there.It was a very interesting lunch time and we were grateful to Jeremy for lunch and for taking us around the production area