The guest speaker was one of our members, Bob Hayter, who presented ‘The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on the Ordinary Person’. Before the Industrial Revolution, clothing was primarily made from natural, animal, and plant fibres like wool, linen, and silk. People used hand-powered methods like spinning wheels and looms to create textiles, often through a domestic system where Read more

Chris Freeman - Jungle Look - The Birds and the Bees and The Kapok Tree Read more

The October guest speaker was Chris Freeman with: “Jungle Look – The Birds and the Bees and the Kapok Tree’. Chris has been a speaker for over forty years and regularly visits groups and other audiences on behalf of the charity ‘Water Aid’. On one of his recent talks to a number of schools online, Read more

Dave Boardman - Adventures in Stage Management Read more

This month's speaker was one of our own members, Dave Boardman with ‘Adventures in Stage Management - The role of those who make gigs happen’. He has been involved in this role for many years, and started by saying the job is ‘the best fun you can ever have’ The first task for the stage manager is to Read more

This month's guest speaker was Marilyn Shalks. In the first of her many excerpts from the silver screen, we saw how Marilyn and her husband greeted each other before breakfast every day. Not many of our members admitted that they too sang ‘Good mornin’ from the 1952 film ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ in which Gene Kelly memorably Read more

Jeff Jacklyn - "Life in the NHS - It Only Hurts When I Laugh" Read more

The guest speaker was Jeff Jacklyn, a retired IT Director who served for 30 years in a number of NHS hospitals up and down the country.  He said that the aim of his presentation was to tell us three things; why was the NHS established, what were the main parts of it, and how were Read more

Chris Green - Encounters on my Small Wheeled Bicycle Read more