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Jul 14, 2018 · Calendar Girls story laid bare in Dales exhibition. 14 July 2018. Terry Logan. Angela Baker was Miss February in the original calendar. The story of the WI ladies who decided to strip off for a ...
06 July to 30 September 2018 Twenty Years of the Calendar Girls exhibition celebrated the phenomenal fundraising story of the W.I ladies who posed artfully with teapots, song sheets and buns. The exhibition featured the memories and personal collections of the women involved, including photographs, posters and newspaper cuttings. The inspirational story of the Calendar … Continue reading ...
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Calendar Girls is a 2003 British comedy film directed by Nigel Cole.Produced by Touchstone Pictures, it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi, based on a true story of a group of middle-aged Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research (subsequently Blood Cancer UK) under the auspices of the Women's Institutes in April 1999 after the ...
Mar 9, 2013 · WI Chairman Marie (Lyn Wetland) tall and imposing, once member of the Cheshire set grudgingly agrees to the idea of a calendar. The sale of which prompting an avalanche of letters depicted by them falling from the theatre roof and read by the ladies accompanied by to one of the many inspired choices of music, in this instance “In Paradisum ...
This is one of the original calendars from one of the earlier print batches - not many of these around now. Covers Jan to Dec 2000, as opposed to the later version that was produced, covering the months June 2000 to Dec 2001.
Jul 1, 2023 · TREMENDOUS performances carried Calendar Girls at Shanklin Theatre. While the first half seemed rather slow, the second half was excellent and very well executed. We all know the true story of the women from Knapely WI in Yorkshire, who decided to raise money for a good cause by posing nude for a calendar, with perfectly positioned cream buns ...
A sensible ambition from a WI in a village deep in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The calendar appeared in 1999 and by the end of the year had raised £300,000. A film (2003). a play (2009) and a musical (2015) later and the amount raised for Blood Cancer UK is north of £5 million, which is an awful lot of sofas.
