Coming together

Andrew Backhouse describes the Lancashire and Cheshire Regional Gathering held in early November at Wilmslow

by Andrew Backhouse 13th December 2013

How many people would you expect to come to a Quaker Regional Gathering? If you prefer, how many would you expect to have come to the old General Meetings? I can remember up to around eighty with some children as well. But on Saturday, 2 November, at Wilmslow we had 150 including the Teenage General Meeting and nine children. It was a bit overwhelming, but local Friends coped well thanks to the use of the Guild – the local adult education centre set up by Quakers a long time ago. There were Friends from Bangor and Oswestry, Manchester and Blackburn and, of course, Cheshire.