Society Matters
Our Officers:

Chairman: The Revd. David Long
St. Mary’s Vicarage, 240a Warrington Road, Lower Ince,
Wigan WN3 4NH.
Tel: 01942 864383
Email: david@scars.org.uk

Secretary: Peter Keen
18 Standish Drive, Rainford, St. Helens WA11 8JY.
Tel: 01744 88 4000

Treasurer, Membership Secretary & Sales Officer: Cynthia Greenall
16 Bleak Hill Road, Eccleston, St. Helens WA10 4RW.
Tel: 01744 731746

Work Party Organiser & Sales Officer: Colin Greenall
16 Bleak Hill Road, Eccleston, St. Helens WA10 4RW.
Tel: 01744 731746

Membership

Welcome to new members:
The Cowie Family: Andrew, Julie, Katherine - Great Sankey
David Smallshaw - Blundellsands
Mrs SM Welding - Billinge
The Family of F Tyrer - Ashton-in-Makerfield

The 2000 AGM: Thursday, March 30th

Members should soon be receiving Notices for this year’s Annual General Meeting.

This will be held on March 30th in the "Sankey Suite" of the "World of Glass" during the first weeks of its opening to the public. Details of the evening are still being finalised as CUTTINGS goes to press, but we hope that all will have been sorted out in time for an insert to have been produced to go out in the same envelope - or with the AGM Papers.

The Society’s Executive were very pleased to be given a private preview of the centre before its February Meeting. Already some of the interactive exhibits are functioning, and many areas are all but ready for the first visitors. However, there remains substantial work to be done, but the team there is confident that all will be ready for mid-March. The official opening, by Prince Philip, will be in July, and we expect that the Society will be part of the celebrations to mark this.

The world of glass would have been very different if it hadn’t been for the Sankey, and we have been asked to supply information on the canal for display in the "Sankey Suite", which is a lecture room at the middle of the centre, to illustrate its history. We are also discussing an outside display and interpretation feature in the area next to the canal.