Some Photos from the DEWI Archives

DEWI - newly formed WI in 1964


WI Members with their Children (and Sheilah's mum) in the 1960s,
in the Parish Room, Dormansland, pre-toddler club days.


What a spiffing time those young ladies and their guests had at
their barbecue in the early days of DEWI.

Can you spot Sheilah, busy on catering duty, Mavis in the gingham pinny, and Marion between a chef and a nice young man?
Sheilah's father is in the forefront, presiding over the barbecue. 

Not a pair of jeans to be seen at an event like that back in 1964 as they hadn't yet made the transition to acceptable casual wear for all, but one daring young man appears to have come along without a tie .

One of DEWI's early Christmas Parties
- and the headline is "Dormans Go Gay"!  How times have changed.


Sheila Gray still loves the stage.  Here she is performing in the 1960s.


And here is Mavis Tettmar treading the boards in the Parish Room in 1968


Jennifer Naylor, with husband John and toddler James in 1968,
the year Jennifer joined DEWI.


DEWI children Fenella Gray and Simon Tettmar organised their own pet show
in Beacon Hill in 1975.


Mavis's WI membership card in 1964 - Membership 5/0d (25p) 


The DEWI Carnival Float in 2004