november 2020
Lockdown continues
EVERY CONVENTION CANCELLED
The November meeting should take place this weekend (21/22
November 2020) but of course, we are still all fighting the COVID
pandemic and if anything, things have deteriorated since
September.
This is the first year in the Society’s fifty-nine years history when
every convention has been cancelled.
Normally the November meeting always has a nice Christmas
spirit in the air as friends exchange cards and there are always
lots of warm sentimental farewells on Sunday evening as we all
say goodbye for another year. The weather in November in
Blackpool or indeed anywhere in the UK is not usually that good
but the weather has never really been a problem within a GFS
convention!
GFS AT WAR
November 2018 featured “The GFS At War” a production by John Walley which made it a
very memorable Saturday evening when everyone dressed in 1940s outfits (including many
audience members) and we all enjoyed the best of times. We even had Winston Churchill
(Martin Fowkes) with us to help make it one of those special Formby weekends.
ZIP GOES A MILLION
2016 brought us a Zip Goes A Million mini-show and again John Walley brought all his
theatrical knowledge with him to ensure that Saturday evening was another Saturday
Special!
GFS HONORARY MEMBERS
Gerry Mawdsley also had reasons to be cheerful when in November 2016 he was awarded
the Society's highest award, honorary membership for services to
the GFS.
In November 2013 Kathryn Pollard was also awarded honorary
membership for many years of active committee work and for
raising over £20,000 for the GFS from three years of shop
management.
For anyone who cares to look, there are many convention pages
to read and many memories and faces within the images, to
remind us all just how good the Blackpool weekends are.
HOPE FOR THE NEW YEAR
Let us hope that 2021 will bring an end to this nightmare that we
are all struggling with. We have to support the GFS in these
troubled times and we all have to get back to Blackpool as soon as
is safe. Surely this will be sometime in 2021, and then the party
will really begin!