William Lamb and George Padbury called this evening to confer about Jubilee. They thought we could count on 200 adults and 150 children as being to be provided for, and that instead of a tea such as the Sibford Ferris people propose to give, we should have a hot dinner of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with ale for such as desire it. The estimated cost is £20.
Club Day. Report appended. Mr. Mann, Joseph Pettipher and a few others got up a cricket match and finished up with a dance in the “Quaker Mission Room” in the evening. None of them were at Church this morning except Louisa Mann.
I walked out at about 11 pm. everything was quiet, but dancing was going on at the Mission Room. I saw and spoke with Mrs. Enock at her gate where she was standing awaiting the return of her daughter and two little pupils from the dance! Quakers in Sibford are rather “going ahead” I think.
Lists of numbers of adults and children compiled for the purpose of the Jubilee Festival:-
| Adults | Children | |
| Sibford Gower | 182 | 61 |
| Burdrop | 103 | 58 |
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