Two hundred and seventy one years handle the knife for the cutting-the-cake ceremony at Appledore

 

Left to right - Mrs Bridger, aged 91; Mrs Gayette, 90; and Miss Willard, 90.

The Appledore club has now been in existence for 16 years - but as with most clubs of this kind, there is a shortage of Darbys!

Gazette article dated 4 January 1974