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Come to St Leonard's Church Hall in Eynsham any Thursday morning from February to December between 9:00 and 10:30 and you will find our flourishing Country Market, supported by more than 40 suppliers.
There is a staggering display of seasonal homemade produce - cakes, breads, tarts, savouries, cookies, local eggs, honey, jams and chutneys - for supper, the freezer, vegetarians. Even in winter days we sell locally grown parsnips, lettuce, leeks, cabbage, apples and potatoes. In season we have cut flowers: daffodils, lilac, chrysanthemums, gladioli or mixed posies. In spring and summer our gardeners have herbaceous and vegetable seedlings ready for planting out. The crafts are represented too, in greeting cards, needlework and wood - our latest member makes plant troughs and walking sticks.
The queue at opening time is famous across the village, cheerful in any weather. Perishable produce is often sold within 15 minutes but there is still coffee and biscuits (an affordable 30p) and every month free ‘tastings’.
Visit us if you can. Better still, join us! Contact Sue Butler-Miles 01865 880928 or Judith Bowden 01993 704005.
with fruit salad, strawberry pavlova and banoffee pie
Pauline Goddard, Chairman of Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes (R), chats with former county treasurer Pat Evans. Other visitors hailed from Banbury to Wantage.
Pat Atkins (foreground) and Mary Evans, two of Eynsham's founder members who are still supplying.
Trevor Morgan, Vice-Chairman of the National Federation, catches up with Oxfordshire Market Adviser Wendy Norman.
cakes, breads, tarts, savouries, cookies ...
from hens that have pecked about in OX29
for you to grow yourself.
Margaret Scruby brings her Paraguayan harp along several times a year.
look for us outside the Emporium or in the Market Square, not to mention the Village Show.
VILLAGERS in Eynsham can look forward to a weekly market from now on — courtesy of the Women's Institute.
It will be held every Thursday from 9.30 a.m. in St Leonard's Church Hall, selling plants, produce, toys and gifts.
The first market was opened by WI member Mollie Harris, who plays Martha Woodford in The Archers radio serial. Deputy market controller Mrs Eve Hollis said: "We had a wonderful response. All the produce was sold out within the first half hour."
Mrs Harris, left, is pictured with Mrs Olga Gush, chairman of Eynsham WI's market society and Mrs Jane McHarg, market controller.
FOUNDER MEMBERS 1984:
1208 Sloan Mrs
1209 Hollis Mrs E.
1210 Ward Mrs C.
1211 McHarg Mrs 3.
1212 Sheffield Mrs P.
1213 Evans Mrs M.
1214 Smith Mrs J.
1215 Atkins Mrs P.
1216 Duffield Mrs A.
1217 Howard Mrs J.
1218 Winterbourne Mrs A.
1219 Porter Mrs I.
1220 Howard Mrs V.
1221 Evans Mrs E.
1222 Gullis Mrs P.
1223 Holland Mrs M.
1224 Stallan Mrs L.
1225 Winston Mrs G.
1226 Garner Mrs G.
1227 Edmonds Mrs S.
1228 Sutton Mrs I.
1229 Fisher Mrs. M.
1230 White Mrs T.
1231 Alsworth Mrs
1232 White Mrs S.A.
1233 Northcott Mrs J.
1234 Seeney Mrs C.
1235 Room Mrs P.
1236 Whitlock P.
1237 Lawrence Mrs. G.M.
1238 Seeney Deborah
1239 Dobbyn Mrs K.
1240 Hedges Mrs M.
1241 Buckingham Mrs D.
1242 Harris Mrs M.
1243 Alder Mrs J.
1244 Barber Mrs P.
1245 Sharpe Mrs J.
1246 May Mrs
1247 Walters Mrs E.
1248 Stevenson Mrs
1249 Manning Mrs M.
All supplies sold out!
On Thursday 6th June, to coincide with the A.G.M. of the W.I. in the Albert Hall, in London, Happiness Hampers were presented to Hospitals, Hospices etc. all over the country by local W.I. Markets.
Eynsham W.I. Market presented hampers of cakes etc. to the geriatric patients of the Radcliffe Infirmary.
Three wheelchair patients were brought by mini-bus to the market to receive the hampers.
At the front of the picture is Hazel Austen, (Voluntary Services Organiser), with two young helpers. From left to right:— D.Alsworth, C.Hollis, E.Hollis, J.McHarg, C.Davies, M.Fisher, M.Evans, and C.Room.
March 1986
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