Found “Needle in a haystack” at Conisbrough

anyone arriving early at last nights garden party organised by Conisbrough Baptist Church and held at the home of Mr and Mrs G.P.Downing of Castle Grove, Burcroft, Conisbrough would have been surprised to see about a dozen women bending down obviously searching for something tiny in the lawn of the garden.

Thereby hangs a tale—for the Wombwell trying to “save a tragedy” as they called it, for one of the stallholders at the garden party, Mrs Violet Taylor, of 90 Park Road, Conisbrough, who wears contact lenses and cannot see without them, and lost one of the lenses, from her eye and thought it must have dropped on the lawn.

And looking for a glass lens the size of a small pea on a large lawn two similar to the proverbial needle in a haystack.

But “tragedy was averted” for Mrs Taylor found the tiny lens herself —it had not fallen on the lawn but had dropped within her clothing. So her full sight was restored before the garden party was officially opened and she was able to carry on helping to serve home made ginger wine, as her part in the work to raise money for the church.

The troublesome lens had fallen out when a piece of dirt blew into her eye.