Reunions

Reunion 2012 takes place at the Scarisbrick Hotel in Southport on 13 October. Tickets for this event are now available at £15 each.

A reminder that the Beach BBQ at Ainsdale is taking place this Saturday, 18 June from 3pm.

People need to enter the beach by Pontin’s entrance and turn left, follow the beach down until you see old friends who will be parked up to the right as they go down the beach. Remember family and pets are welcome to come as well. People must provide their own food, drink and BBQ tray. Most people take chairs or blankets to sit on.

Details of a Mary Hare/Birkdale Reunion have been announced. Please see this page for more info.

The date for the next Reunion at the Scarisbrick Hotel has been set for 13 October 2012. Please make a note of this in your diaries now. Further details to be announced in due course.

Another BBQ on Ainsdale beach, organised by Jane Ashworth, is being planned for 18 June. As last time, it’ll be from 3pm onwards. Please encourage family, friends & pets (no goldfish though!) to come along! If you have any ball games, bring them too.

The Reunion Committee is meeting on Sunday, 2 January. If you have any issues that you would like them to discuss, please email info@bshira.co.uk.

A beach BBQ is taking place at Ainsdale on Saturday, 14 August from 3pm onwards. Entrance will be via Shore Road where there is car parking at £3.50.

If you are going and have any ball games or other type of games, please bring them along.

Details of this year’s Reunion have been posted on Read Hear, the BBC’s digital text magazine for deaf viewers. It can be found under the Diary section.

If you know someone who doesn’t have internet access or know where to find Read Hear, please point them in the right direction. Read Hear can found in either of the following two ways:

• if still using analogue TV: go to BBC2, select Text and enter 640
• if using digital TV: on any of the BBC channels, select Text or the red button and enter 1040

The info about the Reunion will be on Read Hear over the next few weeks.

Obviously anyone who hasn’t got internet access will have to get someone else to email in on their behalf as there are no other contact details available in the advert.

The Reunion Committee had a meeting today. It was decided the next Reunion will be held on Saturday, 2 October 2010 at the Talbot Hotel in Southport. More details will be published when available.

At the Reunion yesterday (10 October), Mr Henderson was given the honour of becoming President of the Reunion Association. He accepted this and promised to do the best he could to support future events.

This year’s Reunion was a sell-out with about 120 people attending. Former staff Mr & Mrs Wood and Mrs Goodall came along as well as Mr Henderson. Mrs Furness had sent a message to say she was sorry Mr Furness couldn’t be there for health reasons, but they were both thinking of everyone.

A fuller report will be published soon, and photos from the event may be available to view as well.