Where do we meet?
Lanark are part of Inner Wheel District 2, we meet at:
The Crown Tavern
17-21 Hope Street
Lanark, ML11 7NE
When do we meet?
Meetings are held at 6.00 for 6.30pm on the second Thursday of every month except July and August. If you are interested in joining us, please sign up here.
About our area
The town of Lanark is situated above and beside the River Clyde, twenty-five miles to the south east of Glasgow and around thirty-two miles to the south west of Edinburgh. Its situation on rising ground above the Clyde is in a relatively central location where several early communication routes come together, such as a Roman road and a highway to Ayrshire. It is this position near these early routes and beside the River Clyde, which is at the heart of why the town was born and at least initially developed. Its convenient position allowed the town to attract the attention of the surrounding rural communities serving as a more or less central hub, which supplied necessary services, as well as being the first link in trade with the immediate area.
According to local tradition the town was granted Burgh status by David 1 in 1140. Ancient Lanark was a town of some repute. It had its own Royal Castle where the first Scottish Parliament met and where the Scottish Kings stayed on their visits to the district. William Wallace is reputed to have married Marian Braidfute at St Kentigerns Church in Lanark and following Marion’s murder in 1297 by the English Sheriff of Lanark, Heselrigg, Wallace in turn killed him and thus started the Scottish Wars of Independence. Lanark also had a Franciscan Monastery on lands granted by Robert the Bruce. Nothing remains of the castle or the monastery but the old street names take us back to the time when the Castle Gait was the road of royalty and Friars Lane was a secluded walk for Monks.
Lanark is a town steeped in tradition. This is typified by the “Lanimers”, a week long festival held in early June, which incorporates an inspection of the Burgh boundaries by mounted Lord Cornets as well as a procession of beautiful floats culminating in the crowning of the Lanimer Queen at a stand in front of St. Nicholas Church and below the statue of William Wallace.
St. Nicholas has the oldest “Bell” in Europe. Cast in 1110, it was used as a curfew. The other churches are Greyfriars, Christ Church and St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, all serving the congregations of the town. The Royal Burgh Museum, situated near the centre of this busy market town, has annual exhibitions telling the story of the people at work and leisure.
Castlebank Park is an attractive wooded area with access to the Clyde Walkway, playground equipment for children and views of the River Clyde, also the Clyde Valley. At the other end of the town is Lanark Loch where many visitors enjoy boating and walking, while children play or watch the many swans. The Golf Club was formed in 1851 and claims to be one of the oldest Clubs in Britain, having two courses, a testing 18-hole course and an easier 9-hole course.
New Lanark World Heritage Village is just over a mile from Lanark being built by David Dale as a series of spinning mills close to the Fall of Clyde. It rose to fame as a model village under the management of Robert Owen on far sighted principles relating to work, leisure and community life. The quality of the restoration has been recognised as outstanding. The Village, home to 200 people, welcomes visitors from all over the world and it also gives access to the Falls of Clyde Wildlife Reserve. The largest and most ambitious project undertaken by the Trust is the New Lanark Mill Hotel converted from the original Mill One.
Club President
Barbara Waters
I was born in London where I lived for 23 years before moving first to Ashford in Kent, Southampton, Gloucester & Worcester
I joined the Inner Wheel Club of Gloucester D10, in 1994 and although I left that Club in 2002, it will always be my ‘Mother’ Club . It was where I was President for the first time. It’s a very ‘unique’ club in as much as it is ‘thriving’ having met for the first time in 1931 and surprisingly it meets in the morning! A job move and house move to
Worcester found me transferring to Worcester South Club which sadly closed in 2012. I then transferred to the Pershore Club and was President of both clubs. Whilst President of Pershore, a fundraising concert by Worcester Male Voice Choir plus a visiting choir from Australia filled the Abbey to capacity, raising over £1000 for Parkinsons charities, a condition from which my late husband suffered!
I served D10 both as District Chairman and Member of Council. Having met my new husband on a holiday, I moved to Scotland joining the Motherwell & Wishaw Club then joining the Lanark Club where once again I am President! As well as being Inner Wheel’s Centenary during 2023-24 it is also the Triennial Convention in Manchester the home of the first Inner Wheel Club! I am looking forward to my third Convention and meeting up with people I met in Copenhagen in 2015! Yes, I do have a ‘life’ outside of Inner Wheel but with both our families living in the south of England we only catch up ‘irregularly’ especially as now the grandchildren range from 16 to 30 and the ‘children’ have their own lives and demanding careers.
Committee Members
Secretary : Loraine Swan
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