Minutes of the previous meeting were available to view. Reminders were given for the Jigsaw afternoon on February 11,The Curry Evening on March 27, The Rye Group Meeting on April 24 at Playden, The Promotional Coffee Morning on May 9 and the Twinning Lunch for South Street on June 3.

Schedules were available for both Home Economics and Craft/Art for the show on September 14. Plenty of warning! Joy Pope asked for photographs of Sussex buildings for the group meeting.

Margaret Hewett still had places for the visit to the Orchid Nursery on April 21.

Details of other outings available - 01797-223426.

Two birthday baskets of bulbs were presented.

Following the Raffle Draw, the meeting was fascinated by a talk by Geoff Hutchinson, on John Logie Baird.

How little we knew! Television is now 70 years old, available in 130 countries and watched by over 500million viewers, its inception in Hastings.

A Scottish Rector's son born in 1888, John Logie Baird invented things from a very early age.

A 'glider' which would not glide, 'glass razor blades', 'damp proof undersocks', 'speedy soap cleaner', to name but a few.

Illness dogged his life making him ineligible for war service. He picked up malaria in Trinidad, returning to Hastings for milder conditions, still pursuing his dream of projected pictures.

Here he built his first crude transmitter, the first image being a hand. So many failures. So much determination. In 1927 pictures were sent from London to Glasgow, then moving pictures across the Atlantic.

E.M.I. snapped at his heels. Did he help with radar during the War when all TV stopped?

This great inventor died on June 14 1946 aged just 58. How much we all owe him. Tessa Cleveland gave the vote of thanks. A beautiful birthday cake made by Shirley Gibson was much enjoyed with a welcome 'cuppa' and the meeting closed following the singing of the National Anthem.