Fairland United Reformed Church Wymondham

As this is a milestone in our newsletter’s history, I have been looking through our fascinating collection of News Sheets, Newsletters and copies of ‘Fairland News’ to see what former Editors chose to include over the years.

The first copy of the ‘News Sheet’ in our archives is No.3 (September 1945) and the last one is No.67 (April 1951). Some time between 1951 and 1959 the News Sheet became a ‘Newsletter’. These were not numbered and we have some copies for the period September 1959 to December 1965.

The production of ‘Fairland News’, as we now know it, seems to date from about April 1967 – the first copy we have is No.28 (August 1969) – and we have various copies of ‘Fairland News’ for the period between August 1969 and June 1999.

I took over as Editor in June 1999 and I am now pleased that I am a ‘hoarder’ as, luckily, I have kept one copy of each edition up to the present day to add to the archives!

I have tried to find out the names of previous editors, but I am sure I have missed some out. Please let me know if you can fill in any gaps. Netta Darkins was the Editor before me – helped by Madeleine Morgan. We believe that Peg Smith was Editor before her – and I know that Horace Wilkinson held this post at some time. In one of the newsletters from the 1960s a Mr Bradley was mention – perhaps he produced the Newsletters which were not numbered.

It appears that the Editor of the original News Sheets was Revd F.A. Mead, who was Minister of Fairland Church from 1945 to 1950.

I have chosen a representative selection of past articles and snippets, which I have mixed in with this month’s items. I hope you will find them interesting. Apologies for the small print in some of them.

Our collection of newsletters, photographs and other memorabilia is available for anyone to look at. Please see John Adams or one of the elders if you would like to do so.

Ann Scott

February 10th, 2011