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The guest speaker this month was Pete Mellor, who described the events of 22nd November 1963 in Dallas, Texas and the assassination of President Kennedy. He began with an overview of politics and events leading up to this date. In 1962, Kennedy had played a large part in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis –… Read more

The guest speaker was Christine Leveridge, a local historian and deltiologist - a person who collects and studies postcards as a hobby. Her subject was Halifax Zoo. A show of hands from the audience indicated that not all our members were aware of such an attraction. Christine said that her ‘specialist subject’ was the July 1912 visit… Read more

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The November guest speaker was author James Ellson. James began his presentation by telling us why and how he became an author. His first main career was as a police officer, initially joining the Metropolitan Police in London, before transferring to Greater Manchester Police. He became a Detective Inspector in that force and worked in… Read more

Norman Harris, a much-travelled retiree, presented ‘Atlantic to Pacific – The story of the Panama Canal’. Having already completed a journey by that route, Norman set the scene with a short history about when, why, and how, the canal came about.  The country of Panama was first mentioned in 1513 by a Spanish explorer who… Read more

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The guest speaker was Steve Barrett, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool and his topic was ‘The End of Everything’. For over an hour, Steve told us about what has been predicted to happen in the future. His first message was that although it took only three… Read more

Steve Barrett - "The End of Everything" Read more