Our programs this year revolved around the English production of Sashas at the Trendon Factory. The featured speaker at the banquet was Anna Doggart, daughter of the factory owners. She spent time with Sasha in Switzerland and became good friends with her. She told us that when she was invited to speak at the festival she hesitated because she pictured people who kept their Sashas in glass cases which is not what Sasha would have wanted for the dolls. When she did arrive at the festival she said the first thing she saw was little girls playing with the dolls and thought how happy that would have made Sasha.
Anna shows us one of her studio dolls.
Today the speaker was Brenda who was a manager at the Trendon factory. She showed us photos of the production equipment and operators and described the process. She also showed a video clip that BBC made following a little girl who had a portrait doll made for her at Trendon.
I believe that this is an advertising image to promote the dolls but it was never formally described to us. There are three on display here.
Marie Morgan shared her studio dolls with us. These two are Eskimo children
The CFA auction brought in 6580 British Pounds or about 10,000 US dollars.
Tomorrow we’ll learn who won the helper items raffle and the special raffles. The most widely watched special raffle will be “Gregor goes to boarding school” Gregor has his wardrobe, luggage and toys.
Tom
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