50 years of talking

FIFTY of the many people who, between them, have maintained Bexhill Talking Newspaper Association's free service to the blind for three decades gathered on Wednesday.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Apr 2007, 14:08 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 19:42 BST

At a buffet lunch at the Cooden Beach Hotel they celebrated the registered charity's 30th anniversary.

Ironically, it was the Cooden Beach Hotel which was the subject of the first "lead" story in the first edition of the weekly tape recorded news and current affairs service for visually impaired people in the town in February 1977.

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Current chairman Brian Kentfield welcomed volunteers past and present to the function in the hotel's Strand Room.

It is a rare event for the organisation's volunteers to meet. Each week's 90-minute cassette is the product of work by separate teams - readers, recorders, coordinators, visitors, magazine producers and editors play their separate roles, working on a rota basis.

Present at Wednesday's function were members who volunteered their services at the start in 1977 and are still actively involved.

Addressing everyone, the chairman said: "I think it is a fantastic job that you all do."

The buffet lunch was organised by association secretary Peter Williams.

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