This looks interesting!

 Have you tried the free Brixham Maritime Heritage Trail?

A new free Maritime Heritage Trail has been launched in Brixham to celebrate the centenary of Vigilance of Brixham.

The self guided trail takes visitors on a journey around Brixham Harbour, uncovering centuries of local history— from notorious smugglers and Dutch invaders to the D-Day landings and the town’s vital role in the deep-sea fishing industry.

The route begins at Brixham Heritage Museum and finishes at Vigilance of Brixham, moored on the Heritage Pontoon opposite the The Prince William, Brixham pub.

The free trail guide, designed by Sam Cork of Brixham, is available from Brixham town hall, Brixham library, Brixham Heritage Museum, and participating cafés, pubs and shops along the route.

If you’ve done the trail we’d love to hear about it… drop us a message on here and let us know what you thought! Did you learn anything new?

Trevor Taylor

Calendar for all of our members!

 Calendar for the coming month: join in with whatever you fancy! All welcome! (Updated weekly)

Book Share evolves!

 

We held our final old style Book Share this afternoon with a lovely coffee/cold drink at the Golf Club.

Ironically, we all really enjoyed the final book offered to us from our library subscription! We enjoyed a good discussion about the characters and the plot - in much greater depth than any other post book discussion I can recall! Many thanks to Jayne for organising it all, as well as doing the majority of the heavy lifting involved.

Books recommended for members to read this month are: Amor Towles’ ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’, Tracey Chevalier’s The Glass Maker and Kate Moreton’s The Forgotten Garden. One suggestion which was not taken up by anyone was about a dog in wartime - we decided it would be a ‘weepy’ and no-one could face it!

Next month, Thursday 7th May, we will discuss some or all of these titles.

Please feel free to come along and join in, all welcome, no pressure!

Membership!

 Brixham WI has had a great response to our invitation to interested women who wish to join us. We are however, nearing capacity and as such we will be closing our "expressions of interest" book, as we feel it will be unfair to allow ladies to get their hopes up when we cannot offer them visits with a further offer of joining.  (We will continue our contact and potential meeting visits to those women who have already had an email exchange with Tina Hemmings, which initially started through them contacting us at brixham@devonwi.org .)

If subsequent spaces arise, we will let you all know via these social media areas.   

Thank you.  Brixham Committee.

Any ABBA fans?

 Or, to everyone who enjoys a good night out! 

This comes to us from Jacquie Humber, the secretary at New Marldon WI:-

Please can you let your members know about the attached event.  We had the same band back in October and it was a great success, we are hoping that this one will be too!

Plan your week ahead!

 Walk off all of the Easter indulgence with us on Tuesday! Non threatening, flat walk along the harbour and breakwater. You could even meet us by the slipway at the end of the breakwater if you prefer! We’ll be leaving the Man & Boy statue promptly at 11. Ending up with a coffee, of course! 

April Craft Event!

 On Tuesday 21st April, Barbara will show how to make these very pretty kusudama flowers - beautiful results and very straightforward to make, following her instructions.

Brixham rugby club 2 - 4 pm £4. There may be an additional cost for materials, payable to Barbara on the day, cash.

Please pay in advance - by our next Institute meeting on 15th April. Thank you very much!

Make a bunch of flowers for yourself! Excellent for those who suffer from hay fever!