2012
7th
March ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
4th
April
18th
Century Dublin by Peter Ticher
Peter has lectured widely on his chosen subject, to U3As, the Irish Georgian
Society, the Georgian Group, Rotary Clubs and Probus Clubs. He says- "18th
Century Dublin was an extraordinary place in a number of ways, described by
the Encyclopaedia Britannica as the second city of the British Empire, with
three world firsts."
Dublin in the eighteenth century. At this time Dublin was the second city in
the British Empire and its Parliament the only one outside London. The
centre had decayed and there grew a very deliberate will to reconstruct the
centre. A pioneering city plan was adopted and a Commission with wide powers
was established to govern the City and implement the plan.
2nd
May Ladies Summer Lunch
More Marks
and Mayhem by Michael Carrigan
Michael
Carrigan has years of experience as a Metropolitan Police forensic expert
and even after retirement has advised overseas establishment in the science
of finger printing.
Fingerprints have been found on ancient Babylonian clay tablets, seals, and
pottery. They have also been found on the walls of Egyptian tombs and on
Minoan, Greek, and Chinese pottery; as well as on bricks and tiles in
Babylon and Rome. Some of these fingerprints were deposited unintentionally
by workers during fabrication; sometimes the fingerprints served as
decoration.
Details of Kingswood Golf and Country Club are....HERE
- Also a booking Form
Please note the overflow car park of Kingswood
Golf and Country Club follow the
arrows
Map is here
6th
June
History and
Humour of Fleet Street by Peter Durrant
4th
July
Burma
Mandalay to Rangoon by Ann Beauchamp
The glories of this ancient land (now known as Myanmar) are covered
in this journey. Travelling by road, by air and on water, from
Rangoon, a city crowned by the magnificent Shwedagon Pagoda, before
journeying on the Irrawaddy River down to the fabled 11th Century
capital, Pagan. The Inle Lake region reflects tranquility and the
hospitality of the Shan people. Kyaiktiyo is home to the fabled
Golden Rock, whilst Bago was once the centre of an ancient Mon
kingdom and contains one of the largest Reclining Buddha’s in the
world, do come and hear Ann’s adventures
Mandalay
1st
August
Along the
North Downs by Peter Fernee
The
North Downs Way National Trail is one of the few trails that coincides or
runs close to the ancient trackway between Winchester and Canterbury. The
National Trail is 153 miles in length and traces the North Downs ridge
between Farnham and Dover via Canterbury. At Boughton Lees the North Downs
Way splits into the 57-mile Canterbury loop. Here one can either follow the
loop clockwise along stretches of the ancient trackway to Dover via
Canterbury and the Stour valley or one can take the loop anti-clockwise to
Wye and onto via Dover via Folkestone. Come and hear more
5th
September
Restoration
of the Lochness Wellington Bomber by Geoff Bloomer
Wellington Mark IA Serial Number N2980 is on display at the Brooklands
Museum of Motor Sport and Aviation at Brooklands, Surrey - This aircraft
lost power during a training flight in 1940 and ditched in Loch Ness. All
the occupants survived bar the rear gunner, who was killed when his
parachute failed to open. The aircraft was recovered from the bottom of Loch
Ness in September 1985 and restored, the propellers remaining in their
damaged state as a tribute to the gunner
Wellington Mark 1A
3rd
October
A Journey
through the Americas by Edmund Woolley
Edmund
qualified as a graphic designer and made an early decision to see other
parts of the world, he secured admittance to Canada but clearly the
wanderlust was still in him.
He explored the “Thousand Islands” north of
Toronto and then as a result of a conversation with a friend who had an
uncle living in British Honduras he decided to visit him the itinerary
involved crossing the United States Midwest via Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake
City, out to the West Coast at San Francisco. He then took the Pacific
Highway down to Los Angeles and crossed the border into Mexico. He then
traversed right across Mexico, come and hear and see the details.
7th
November
From Here to
Timbuktu by Tom Drake
In its Golden Age, the town's
numerous Islamic scholars and extensive trading network made possible an
important book trade: together with the campuses of the Sankore madrassah,
an Islamic university, this established Timbuktu as a scholarly centre in
Africa. These stories fuelled speculation in Europe, where the city's
reputation shifted from being extremely rich to being mysterious. This
reputation overshadows the town itself in modern times, to the point where
it is best known as a metaphor for a distant or outlandish place.
Timbuktu
5th
December Ladies Christmas Lunch
High Times at
Heathrow by Sheila Kennedy
Come and
hear Sheila's hilarious stories of life in the Airline business, presented
at a fast pace covering many decades with Pan Am BEA and British Airways, a
presentation not to be missed.
2013
2nd January
A Life of Riley by Tony Rogers
(Cold War experiences!)
Cold
War : this term is used to describe the relationship between America
and the Soviet Union 1945 to 1980. Neither side ever fought the other -
the consequences would be too appalling - but they did ‘fight’ for their
beliefs using client states who fought for their beliefs on their behalf
e.g. South Vietnam was anticommunist and was supplied by America during
the war while North Vietnam was pro-Communist and fought the south (and
the Americans) using weapons from communist Russia or communist China.
In Afghanistan, the Americans supplied the rebel Afghans after the
Soviet Union invaded in 1979 while they never physically involved
themselves thus avoiding a direct clash with the Soviet Union.
6th February
Canine
Partners by Malcolm Wells
At Canine Partners our mission is to assist people with disabilities to
enjoy a greater independence and a better quality of life and, where
possible, to help them into education and employment, through the
provision of specially trained dogs for the disabled, whose well-being
is a key consideration.
More than 1.2 million people in the UK use a wheelchair, and a
significant number of those would benefit from a canine partner. We
tailor make our dogs to each applicant’s individual needs, training them
to help with everyday tasks such as opening and shutting doors,
unloading the washing machine, picking up dropped items, pressing
buttons and switches and getting help in an emergency. We train dogs
for the disabled with even the most complex conditions including members
of HM Armed Forces.
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