Every Thursday at 9.45am the smell of coffee encourages members to chat with friends and colleagues prior to the weekly talk. The talks now start at the revised time of 10.30
An analysis of our wide-ranging talks since 2008 shows that the three most subjects are – Local Interest, Geography/Travel and History
These were followed by Arts/Entertainment, Business/Economics, Geo Politics, Lifestyle, Natural History, Science/Technology. The least frequent were Education, Health and Sport.
We record past meetings on another page of this site
Future Weekly Meetings – 2024
| Date | Title | Speaker | ||||
| Mar 7th | On Being a Magistrate | Celia Hargrave | L. Keen | |||
| Mar 14th | VISIT TO JAVELIN, followed by a lunch -Contact Julian Cox | |||||
| Mar 21st | Rugby Union Refereeing | Sam Collins | Malcolm Lomas | |||
| Mar 28th | Shot at Dawn”: a comparison of military discipline in World War I in the British & French armies | John Reid | Bob Maisey | |||
| Apr 4th | The Eagle Comic | Chris Brown | Bob May | |||
| Apr 11th | Walking the Cliff Edge ; from GP Surgery to Prison Cell | Stephen Blake | John Mills | |||
| Apr 18th | The Vietnam War | Tim Brain | William Parker | |||
| Apr 25th | AGM | |||||
| May 2nd | Operation Chastise ; The Dambusters Mission | Paul Shepherd | Keith Douglas | |||
| May 9th | Summer Lunch – Lillybrook Golf Club | Keith Douglas | ||||
| May 16th | Who were the Knights Templar? | Gil Gibbons | Stuart Russel | |||
| May 23rd | The NHS – A Jewel in the Nation’s Crown. or a Patient in need of Therapy | Martin Gower | David Rust | |||
| May 30th | The James Hopkins Trust | Charlene Spackman | Eric Schaschke | |||
| June 6th | Nato Briefing | Jasper Stroler | Trevor Seabrook | |||
| June 13th | The City of London | Rod Barker | Lindsay Raitt | |||
| June 20th | Snowshill Manor Visit | Julian Cox | ||||
| June 27th | My Life Beyond the Lobby | Duccio Leoni | Richard Wheatley | |||
| July 4th | Legacy Fortress for Generations | Poppy Jones | TBA | |||
| July 11th | I Worked for the CIA in Liberia | Brain Barber | Bob Wilson | |||
| July 18th | Futurists and Futurology | Peter Wright | Terry Anderson | |||
| July 25th | The Journey of a Lifetime (followed by a Pub Lunch) | Patrick Howell | Howard Bartlett | |||
| Aug 1st | Fraud Awareness and Protection | Rhiannon Parker | Mike Bone | |||
| Aug 8th | 40 Things that you did not Know about Steam Trains | Robert Pritchard | Basil Butterworth | |||
| Aug 15th | Today Today – Gone Tomorrow – about Hearing, Tinnitus and Balance | Dr David Reed | Julian Cox | |||
| Aug 22nd | Restoration of the Stroudwater Canal | Bob Toseland | Robin Danielli | |||
| Aug 29th | T B C | Rod Davis | ||||
| Sept 6th | Summer Quiz | |||||
| Sept 12th | What has Happened to America – T B C | Ron Jeffery | Keith Douglas | |||
| Sept 19th | The Science and Side Effects of Sword Swallowing | Brian Witcombe | Geoff Fox | |||
| Sept 26th | MacMillian | Philip Bowen | Rob Gwynne | |||
| Oct 3rd | From Queens to Genes | Peter Petrie | Rod Hill | |||
| Oct 10th | The Cold War Vulcan | Keith Douglas | Tony Hughes | |||
| Oct 17th | T B C | Laurence Keen | ||||
| Oct 24th | TBC | Ashley Letts | ||||
| Oct 31st | Chairman’s Handover followed by Pub Lunch – Possible talk ‘Greek Islands; | Mike Bone | Duccio Leoni | |||
| PLANNED DATES | ||||||
| Dec 12th | Christmas Lunch | |||||
| Dec 19th& 26th | No Meetings or Talks |