A few years ago Lucy White was invited to think of a social club that could be useful in Wookey Hole in gathering people together for enjoyable times. 

Lucy loves playing Scrabble and wanted to find likeminded people so started a Scrabble Club by delivering notices about it door to door .

I’d like to say a little bit about three of the young men whose names we remembered this morning at the War Memorial and who were killed in action in 1916.  They were the first men from the village to die in the 1^st War and their sacrifice was commemorated in this Church with the dedication in April 1917 of a now rather overlooked memorial plaque at the back of the Church.

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