Gatley Village Partnership AGM

by Lib Dem team on 30 August, 2018

Gatley Village Partnership is a fantastic community group that does a lot across the village. But GVP needs new volunteers to make the successful events happen. Come along to the AGM on Tuesday to find out more.

7pm-8pm
Tuesday 4th September
at Elm Road URC Church Halls

AGENDA

1. Welcome
2. Introductions, apologies, items for Any Other Business
3. Update since last meeting
4. Elections for Chair and Treasurer positions
5. Treasurer’s report
6. Events: Bake Off / Christmas Festival 2nd Dec
7. Event for 100 anniversary of end of WW1 – War Memorial Funding / Peace Day 10th November
8. Any Other Business
9. Date for next meeting

   32 Comments

32 Responses

  1. DR C says:

    Guessing this to be be appealing for the the ‘busy-bodies’! ?

  2. Iain Roberts says:

    One day you’ll shock us all and say something that isn’t insulting about Gatley and its people. You left, but you don’t see to be able to let go.

    • DR C says:

      It is not unique to Gatley!… our opinion that is!!
      As for having left – correct, but, contact continues – through friends who are equally annoyed AND still have to bare it!!! ?

      • SR says:

        You need to fully leave Dr C. You add nothing to this blog.
        I just had a horrible thought……you are not actually a doctor are you? Hopefully not, you are simply hiding behind a veil of respectability. No of course not, your “posts” show you for what you are!

  3. John Hartley says:

    Thanks for the link, Iain.

    As one of the “busy-bodies” who try to support our community, I have an interest in item 7. The GVP ran events to commemorate the centenary of the start of the Great War and is planning more events to commemorate its end. It’s a war which saw well over 100 people from the village join the armed forces. Seventeen of them lost their lives and are commemorated on our war memorial. An important time in our local history.

    (PS: I take no offence at Dr C’s remarks. This one is as easily dismissed as her/his previous contributions).

    • DR C says:

      Obviously the forthcoming centenary of the Armistice should be marked.
      Perhaps then, after a century of ‘going on’ about it, the whole country will ‘shurrup’ about it, forget about it and move on!
      That just leaves the Second such – all being well, one hopes to witness the same for that!!
      ???

      • John Hartley says:

        You’re right that the memory of the war will fade as time goes on and the links with the past become weak. But, as someone who has two great uncles who were killed in that conflict, your remarks that their sacrifice for their country should be forgotten is, frankly, contemptuous.

        • DR C says:

          Tha simply speaks as someone who had no close family or even family friends who served in either conflict (well, that said, there were, but, they had already ‘passed on’ when oneself came into being)!
          Hence… all those who went on endlessly about either conflict (particularly the latter one) did so from the ‘civvy street’ perspective.
          Both conflicts are large part of our history, but, like the books about them – they should be allowed to gather dust!!

          • John Hartley says:

            As the author of four books on the Great War, all with a localish bent, I hope there are loads of them out there gathering dust. It means folk have bought them and, hopefully, read and been interested in them.

            But, in a serious disagreement with your underlying sentiment, I can do no better than quote Winston Churchill who paraphrased an earlier remark as “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

  4. DR C says:

    ?… ☺️…
    But he was a warmonger!
    Moi? – ‘I am Neville Chamberlain’, well, before 01/09/’39!!☮️

  5. Andy McKnight says:

    I’m reading with interest the discussion with Iain, John, what is your issue, DR C?
    You state that you don’t live around here anymore but people who do are annoyed and still have to bear it- what are they annoyed about and what are they bearing?

    • DR C says:

      Just for starters… two people tha knows, both of whom live in a flat like Moi, have to pay BAND B Council Tax .
      There flats are no bigger and no better than mine (Band A) – and tha now lives in a lower charging Council Tax area (Cheshire East) per se!
      To say living in Stockport is a dubious privilege would be language even a diplomat would struggle to say – with a straight face! ?

  6. Bruce says:

    My granddad served in the first world war and was a prisoner of war. Apparently the wife of a prisoner of war received nothing from the army/government and the family were unceremoniously turned out of rented accommodation. My grandmother went to a work house and the children were housed at Sytal (now a prison).
    They were hard times.

    • John Hartley says:

      At last we can agree on something, Bruce. They were, indeed, hard times. I researched the local home front for one of my books (shameless plug – “Bully Beef & Biscuits)

      As mentioned the Village Partnership is planning an event, on 10 November. As par tof it, they’ve booked me to give a brief talk, provisionally titled “What has the Great War ever done for us?”. Folk who have seen Minty Python’s “Life of Brian” will know where I’ve nicked the title from. Come along and have a listen and we can put faces to names.

      John

    • DR C says:

      It was because of the failure of this country to decisively ‘move on’ after the Great War that made the electorate all the more determined to learn from history and not repeat the mistake again – post WW2.
      The real tragedy is the price this country has paid ever since – sky high taxation, mass immigration and Liebore governments! ?

  7. Jean Skitt says:

    Dr C … your remarks just appall me… my family lost people on the first and second W wars, my father was in the RAF and was in Burma… and had friends killed.. i have fruends who lost all their elations on the Concentration camps…. no we shouldnt “shurrup” about these conflicts… or any subsequent ones ………

  8. Jean Skitt says:

    And sorry about the typing errors … no remarks please

  9. Andy says:

    DR C why are your friends so annoyed about that they can’t bear it?

  10. SR says:

    Dr. C. I think it is time to leave this blog as well as having left the area as you have nothing positive to contribute. I am sure there are many regular readers who are quite frankly fed up with your rather pathetic attempts of humour and constant disparaging comments concerning Gatley.

  11. Ruth says:

    This is all not what this page should be about.
    I live in Cheadle not Gatley but surely we should be applauding GVP and their endeavours to maintain and enhance the Gatley community.

  12. David Johnson says:

    My father served in WW1 in France dodging bullets and Shells My Uncle served in WW2 in Burma & India. I did National Service with time in Germany & was then sent on to The Korean conflict – luckily the cease fire was declared while on the troopship but I saw the destruction and damage to the local people and their communities. One lesson burned into my memory is that the smallest inhuman attitude can trigger escalating violence & destruction. Dr C is still in need of leaning from history – all around him!

    • DR C says:

      Tha knows our history – just tired with the endless repetition about it!
      MOVE ON!! ?‍♂️

    • JohnHartley says:

      Well said about inhuman attitude, David.

      As well as the two great uncles who were killed in WW1, my grandfather also served – as a private with the Manchester Regiment, enlisting in 1915 and serving through to 1918.

      Like yours, my father also served in Burma and India in WW2. My father-in-law was a regular soldier, post war, and lost comrades in Aden and Cyprus. My older cousin was conscripted for national service and also was overseas.

      The patriotic service of all these relatives has meant that those younger, like me, have not been called on to put on a uniform and risk their lives.

      • DR C says:

        Oh for the death of the empire – and all the delusions of grandeur which went with it!
        Fortress Blighty only please – just enough to keep out intruders and nothing more.

        Instead of standing on their promise for an extra 1p on Income Tax for education spending at every General Election – try standing on a promise to reduce defence spending to just 1% of GDP!

        ☮️

  13. David Johnson says:

    Sorry, I missed an r – leaning should have been learning – or maybe Dr C should also lean in thanks to those who sacrificed so much for us descendants!

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