Unless I missed any, this was the final report in The Recorder on the Ilford Circle's activities. It may also have been their final meeting. As Gillings later recounted, having gone into recess for the summer of 1931 the Circle failed to reassemble: "...mainly for lack of enough members interested in more than parlour chit-chat, and partly because we could find no other way of discouraging an elderly lady who had mistaken us for a Spiritualist circle."So here, anyway, is what one speaker thought the world would be like in the faraway future of 1991:
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