rWI members travelled back in time to the 17th century for a taste of the food served up then.

Vicky Williams, dressed as a cook from the 1600s, taught Culcheth branch members about coffins, possets and pottages as well as how raw vegetables and exotic fruit went uneaten but were put on show to indicate wealth.

Dorothy Keane presented members with a copy of the book Calendar Girls, now a newly-released film about the Yorkshire members who stripped for charity.

The autumn walk is on October 8, the Group Craft Day at Glazebury on October 11 and the autumn meeting on October 17. The activities group will be tackling Spirelli cards at their next meeting.

Speaker at the October 21 meeting at 2pm will be Kathleen Lewis whose subject is "High Cs on the High Seas".