OUR joint presidents Jenny Chappell and Midie Macdonald hosted our Inter Club meeting and lunch at Chavenage House, near Tetbury.

An Elizabethan house set in lovely Cotswold countryside.

Chavenage has a wealth of history and has been used for TV and film productions, including Trenwith House in Poldark.

A favourite with the ladies due to Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark.

It is also used as a charming venue for wedding receptions and many other functions.

Our lunch was served in a lovely Elizabethan bow-windowed room, which amply seated seventy, comprising of members with partners and guests along with representatives of other local clubs in the area.

Also present was our district chairman Christine Ellson, and Dursley Rotary president Graham Peake and Cotswold Tyndale president John Stanton made an impressive top table.

Our speaker was Caroline Lowsley Williams, who gave us a brief history of her home and her family’s part in managing Chavenage, and keeping it in a healthy state of repair.

Caroline was very humorous and entertaining and we all enjoyed hearing about how all the family manage to finance and help keep it in such Elizabethan splender.

The Lowsley Williams' have owned the house since 1891, so she new her subject well.

A great success for our presidents Jenny and Midie, and thoroughly enjoyed by all IW ladies and guests.