The 2015 AGM & meeting was hosted by long-standing member and former BCD secretary, Barbara Middlethorp and had as its theme “30 years celebration of the BCD”. Perhaps because we held our 6th Weekend House Party only 3 weeks before, attendance was lower than usual. Nevertheless, those who attended enjoyed plenty of tea, many delightful cakes and some very interesting puzzling.
Perhaps the highlight of the Show and Tell session was a beautifully coloured and very difficult 1100 piece puzze of a map of Ceylon cut by the great Enid Stocken. Other puzzles shown included a Waddington’s puzzle book sold in aid of The Red Cross and St.John’s Ambulance Service, a very interesting 1912/13 puzzle of “John Gilpin’s Ride to Where?” featuring Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill among its riders, a tricky coronation of Edward VII puzzle that a meeting 10 years or so ago had failed to complete and 1954 Victory promotion puzzle celebrating 150 years of the Challen Piano company.