Club Celebrations

OUR CLUB'S CELEBRATIONS
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Planning for the Club’s Centenary Year celebrations in 2003 were underway by autumn 2000.
These were to take the form of a Centenary Dinner at the Grand Hotel, Tynemouth, with local TV personality and historian, John Grundy as the after dinner speaker, a Civic Reception, the production of the Centenary Book and the commissioning of souvenir mugs.
In addition another event was organised at the Whitley Bay Playhouse entitled ‘One Hundred wonderful Years’, showcasing the work of our club members over the years, plus a talk by Arthur Edwards, chief photographer at The Sun newspaper, who travelled from London to give a talk about his work.
 
Ten years on and it was decided to hold another dinner at the Grand Hotel, this time to celebrate the Club’s 110th Anniversary.
It proved to be a very enjoyable occasion with a lovely meal, a huge raffle (with prizes donated by many businesses both local and national). A cake was made and decorated by Dorothy Wilson and boxes of notelets for each guest, printed with images from the Club’s archive collection.
No after dinner speaker was arranged but Howard Wilson unearthed some archive footage of club activities on DVD which were shown to conclude the evening.
 
In 2023 a lunch was held to celebrate our club’s 120th year. This was held at Whitley Bay Golf Club and a special booklet was produced for members by Stan Bewick to commemorate the occasion.
 
LIFE MEMBERS
1956 – Tom Porter.  1961 – Jack Oliver.
1966 – Gordon Turnbull. 1972 – Glen Robson.
1972 – Brit Smallman. 1972 – Norman Brooks.
1986 – Stan Bewick. 1993 - Alice Littlefield.
1996 – Lon Moralee. 2000 – Bill Jolley.
2003 – Jane Black.
2011 – Howard Wilson. 2011 – Dorothy Wilson.
2013 – John Burton. 2019 – Arthur Smith.
 
Honorary Life President 2019 – Stan Bewick.