A House through Time - 5 Winkley Square - a family home
9th Dec
Christmas Lunch
13th Jan 2025
Roger Browne
The Great American Songbook
27th Jan
Graham Nuttall
Life Behind Bars. NOTE: This talk is at 10.15 with coffee from 9.45
10th Feb
Lunch
24th Feb
Julian Bond
Escape from Burma (and short AGM)
10th March
Frank Vigon
Shaun Greenhalgh - Forger from a shed in Bolton
24th March
Lunch
28th April
Steve Barrett
Exploring the Solar System
12th May
John Hill
William Morris
9th June
Colin Penny
Historic Graffiti: The Writing's on the Wall
23rd June
Ann-Marie Michel
Art and the Working Class
14th July
Lunch
28th July
Josephine Gosling
Walks, People and History
11th Aug
Keith Stevens
Ordnance Survey
8th Sept
Ray Hoerty
Famous Sayings.
22nd Sept
Speaker TBA
13th Oct
Lunch
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27th Oct
Joe Darlington
Spinoza's Spectacles - Philosophy, Science and the Dutch Masters
10th Nov
David Arkell
The History of Brooklands - Birthplace of British Motorsport & Aviation, Home of Concorde -
24th Nov
Stephen Doyle
The Rise and Spread of Homo Sapiens.
8th Dec
Christmas Lunch
Old Links
24th Feb 2025 Julian Bond ‘Escape from Burma"
"The true story of my family's escape from Rangoon Burma in 1942 as the Japanese invaded and their eventual journey to India. It is also a love story of how my father who was an armoured car reservist also escaped and despite the odds against them managed to get married in a series of bizarre coincidences and not a little luck. It also touches on the route followed by many that became known as The Road of Death as the monsoon broke and the infamous action at The Sittang Bridge that he was involved in. Over a 100,000 refugees perished in a little known and tragic phase of the war in the Far East .Both families had lived in the Far East since East India company days! A ex Royal Navy Fast Jet Pilot, I served 12 years flying the Buccaneer off the Aircraft Carriers Ark Royal and Eagle in the cold war years 1965 to 1977. I was the Buccaneer Qualified Flying Instructor and Deck Landing instructor as well as the last Royal Navy Buccaneer display pilot in1977. After leaving the Navy I joined Dan Air on the Boeing 727 then the BAC 1-11and later MyTravel Airways as a Captain on the MD83 , then the Airbus A320 and A330. I was the Training Manager and Type Rating Examiner for the airline. Ex Chair of my local Probus Group. Enthusiastic Speaker and Walk leader in Holmes Chapel U3A.