A Mrs Newington was sometimes winner of the Aylesham weekly whist drive . These events were attended by miners and their families. "There was nothing else to do" an Aylesham old timer told the kentish gazette in 1977. Other records suggest that the rural poor would go from house to house with a handcart to collect tables and chairs for whist drives.
I'm wondering if her husband was Basil of the last post, who preferred a different sort of game.
I have a league match (bridge) today, hope I play my cards like Mrs Newington.
I guess there was no rabbit in her pot that summer. What happened to the Newingtons?
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