Nantwich Memories: Holiday pals reunite

By Crewe Chronicle on Oct 1, 09 04:47 PM in 1900-1999

A GROUP of friends who went on holiday to Spain together back in 1964 are still meeting up 45 years later.

The girls, who appear in the photograph above, were reunited at the Cronkinson Farm pub in Stapeley for their annual get-together, which they have enjoyed ever since they took their holiday to Tossa de Mar.

The women in the photo, who worked at various shops and offices in Nantwich town centre, are Pam Newby (nÃÂ©e Richardson), Lesley Shenton (Cheadle), Janet Wood (Brazenall), Pam Allen (Wright), Christine Patterni (Willett), and Susan Farrington (Hollins).

Another friend who did not go on holiday but still meets them each year is Rosemary Corfield (Edwards).

Mrs Wood, who lives in Buerton, said Saturday's meeting was enjoyable and another opportunity to catch up on gossip.

She said: "We were a bevvy of beauties who went to Spain in September 1964. For years we met at The Lamb in Hospital Street each year but since then we have gone to various places. We now live all over the country and only two of us are still in the Nantwich area.

"When we meet it's a time to catch up with each other and talk about children and grandchildren. It's just nice to see Nantwich again and see how it's changed since 1964.

"We were all working in the centre of town and it was through friends that we all got together. We used to go to the jazz club at The Royal in Crewe on a Sunday night together."

Mrs Wood says it was unusual for a group of working-class girls to go somewhere as exotic as Spain on holiday at that time.

She said: "We were all in our late teens and early 20s. It was quite a small resort then. We went to different places and hotels. There weren't the nightclubs there are now but there were dances.

"For us it was about going away as friends. None of us found any husbands while we were there or anything like that, and certainly none of us ran off with the waiter!"

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