The Gashes and the Semples share a joke

Originally uploaded by John Barnabas.

Ian and Louise Semple enjoy a joke with Andrew and Jean Gash, Baha”is who attended the recent open weekend at the UK National Haziratu’l-Quds (Baha’i Centre) in London. The open weekend was third in a series of such weekends authorized by the National Assembly as a way of enabling the Baha’is to see some of the wonderful archives that link the UK to the early history of our faith.

This particular weekend benefited from the presence of Ian Semple, who retired from the Universal House of Justice at Naw-Ruz 2005, after having served since the first time the House of Justice was elected, in 1963. Mr Semple spoke to the Baha’is who came to tour the warm heart of the community about his recollections of the British Baha’i community in the 1950s, at the time that the present Baha’i Centre was purchased by the National Assembly.