Emberton Tapestry
Excursions & history
Last Thursday evening, I got in my little red car and beetled off two miles to the next village of Emberton to a historical association dinner.
The ‘sausage dinner’ had been advertised on the community site of Olney and I had mental idea of a casual barbecue-like affair where a handful of people mill about, shuffle some papers, and retire to the pub after a couple of hours.
Emberton is just off the A509. I’ve passed it often but I’d not been in before and I had to drive around a bit looking for a lot of cars and the look of a public building. So I arrived late and guess what, it was a sit-down dinner, boarding school style, 8 people to an oblong table!
Dinner was indeed sausages donated by a specialist butcher, served with mash, mushy peas and onion gravy. There was a large gathering of about 100 people who knew each other quite well and who were very comfortable in each other’s company.
The purpose of the event was an annual slide show when they review the past calendar year with a power point show of pictures of births, weddings, retirements, parties and house extensions marked by pictures of world events.
The hosts were the Well & Towers historical association who take some trouble to record the social history of Emberton and who took advantage of the gathering to recruit volunteers to collect data for their own local census.
The Emberton Tapestry
Some ten years ago, the town collaborated to make a large wall tapestry of the village. It hangs proudly on the Institute wall and that’s what you see in the picture!
