Wilby church tower may have scaffolding but the hanging baskets still look good.
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The parked cars in Wilby Saturday for the school fete showed us that a nice day and a head teacher retiring at the end of term are a good combination ... plus the church had made an effort.
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Ballroom and sequence dancing to live music tonight in the Wilby Coronation Hall.
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Striking how many peeps from Worlingworth, Wilby and other villages in this vid (and a district councillor) all supporting save Stradbroke library. Public meeting in Straddy community centre 7:30 pm Monday.
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1977 Elvis died
Yolande is the Worlingworth Swan's landlady's daughter so when we were told it was happening in a marquee we assumed at the Swan but that was all in darkness ... a nice lady and her husband in Wilby village hall helped us find Matt and Yo'swedding reception in a field a mile and a bit from Wilby. Outside the marquee garden flares made the setting striking and the pig roast was getting a good seeing to. Inside there was a high tech disco projecting pics of the dancers, draught Adnams and inevitably much good times (despite the difficulties of high heels on grass) to the straight ahead, good time music of The Outlaws (liked the acapella You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and the crowd, as they always do to our continued surprise, knew the words.
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1895 The German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X rays
Landscape photographer Charles Lane will be opening his studio in Wilby 10-5pm Saturday and Sunday this weekend.
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1963 The French singer Edith Piaf died
Punch Taverns have certainly made an attractive proposition out of theStradbrokeWhite Hart and it looks like Wilby Village Hall is getting one of those glamorous rooftop terrace cafés ... but then again maybe it isn't.