Final course for food couple
12:48pm Saturday 17th May 2008
Thirty six years of feeding the thousands came to an end when a Lothersdale couple served their last meal.
Hugh and Belle Gott have been organising lunches for visiting coach parties in the village hall since 1972.
Belle, 80, hails from Rossendale Valley and came to Lothersdale in 1941. She has written three cookery books.
"I have had a very, very happy catering life," she said. "I must have fed at least 100,000 people."
Hugh, who is 81, came to Lothersdale from Cowling in 1939. He has been active in village groups and organisations including the chapel and choir.