Category: Events

Andrew Green took this photo from the Victoria Hotel at Sidmouth on the day of the Spread Eagle Christmas Lunch in 2016. What a sky for December.

The sun always shines on the Spread Eagles!

Members enjoying a pre-lunch drink in the newly-refurbished premises of the Sidmouth Harbour Hotel.

Exeter Spread Eagle Club are always looking for new venues to add to our calendar of events. So when Lynne Ring suggested Froginwell to the committee, they were intrigued. “Froginwell ?”  “Yes” said Lynne, “It is a new Vineyard, Wine Shop and Café. If you say the name slowly, you will understand why they called it that.”
And so we made Froginwell the venue for an up-coming coffee morning. Kate Jenkins, the co-owner, made us most welcome, with excellent hot coffee and tasty biscuits. In the vineyard they grow six varieties of grape, five white and one red, all very neatly tended and providing a lovely backdrop to the Café/Shop Barn. Some of us so enjoyed ourselves that we stayed for lunch!
But the real surprise was lurking in the shadows of that barn…a ten tonne steam traction engine! Kate explained that her father had owned it for more than thirty years, so it was almost part of the family. It certainly looked at home in its new location and provided a lot of interest amongst the assembled coffee drinkers. Lynne would have to work very hard to find another venue for the Club with such an interesting attraction.

Exeter Spread Eagle Club welcomes the digital age !

Some seventy members of the Exeter Spread Eagle Club welcomed a team of local Barclays Digital Eagles to join them at their Annual General Meeting at the Exeter Golf and Country Club in March.

After the formalities of the morning were over, Jade Wood and her three colleagues gave a presentation about the work of the team. Digital Eagles can help people get the best out of their smart phones, tablets and laptops. They showed how easy it was to set up for on-line banking, and how to stay secure, whilst embracing all the opportunities of the digital world. Members were encouraged to hear of the support that was available to them, all from the friendly local Barclays branch.
Then the Club did what it likes doing best, enjoying each others company over a splendid lunch. The Exeter Spread Eagle Club puts out a quarterly newsletter and organises four subsidised lunches a year around their patch in Devon. Regular coffee mornings and careful attention to the welfare of its members are all part of the package organised by an enthusiastic committee, ably led by Chairman Chris Moss. They warmly welcome new members (there were two at the AGM), whether from folk who worked in Devon, or who have moved to the area in retirement. Contact details can be found on the Committee page.

Andrew Green
Hon Secretary – Exeter Spread Eagle Club