Speakers
GUEST SPEAKERS
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MONTHLY MEMBERS' MEETINGS
Meetings @ 2.00pm in St. Johns Church
2024
9/1/2024: Alan Haines: The Baby Boomer Nostalgia Show.
13/2/2024: Our Chairman..Mike Chantry: Stammering, whats and why!
12/3/2024: Jennifer Godfrey: Suffragettes of Kent
9/4/2024: Jane Scotchmer: Artists and Garden Designers
14/5/2024: Margaret Watson: Life on a Harp String
2023
10/1/2023: Christoph Bull, Libraries, periodicals & pillocks.
14/2/2023: Helen Fry, A very secret war: Bugging the Nazis During WW2.
14/3/2023: Pam & Mike Bathurst, The Medway Queen, a Dunkirk Heroine.
11/4/2023: Sylvia Fletcher, Royal Milliner, (maker of hats!)
9/5/2023: Bobbie Darbyshire, *Where do novelists get their ideas*.
12/9/2023: Richard Winston, My Big Garden Safari.
10/10/2023: Brian Laverick-Smith, 30 years of Bother on the Hover
14/11/2023: Pat Bryer, A Woman of a Certain Age
2022
11/1/2022: Malcolm Wells, MBE, So far so good.
8/2/2022: Russell Bowes: CHOCOLATE...Food of the Gods!
8/3/2022: Bobbie Darbyshire, cancelled due to covid, Where do novelists get their ideas?
12/4/2022: Ian Grey, The hedgehog - our much loved garden friend.
22/5/2022: Guy Bartlett, The Red Arrows
14/6/2022: Susan Flipping, Medieval Church Graffiti
13/9/2022: Tammy Woodhouse, Rewilding your garden
11/10/2022: Jack Deans, Fingerprints and Murder
08/11/2022: Fran Sandham, Traversa- a SOLO walk accross Africa
2021
9/11/2021: Peter Hartley, Working with the Royal family.
14/12/2021: Pat Bryer, A Tribute to Joyce Grenfell.
Virtual Meetings by ZOOM @ 2pm due to Covid19
8/9/2020: Fools Gold, " 2 piece singing and story telling group."
13/10/2020: Roger Cheetham, A True Story of Resilience.
10/11/2020: Jane King, The Foundling Museum
8/12/2020: Imogen Corrigan, The Politeness of Princes
12/01/2021: Andrew J Baker, Social changes following the end of WW2
9/2/2021: Ian Keable, Comedy Magic & Mind Reading
9/3/2021: Jim Holmes, Photographer
13/4/2021: Ruth Waine, Hospital / Mercy Ships
11/05/2021: Dr Ian Bedford, Entomologist, A Butterfly garden and a Changing Environment
8/06/2021: Martyn Harrison, Retired Tenor Opera Singer
13/07/2021: Chris Stewart Historian The life of a Kentish hop picker
10/08/2021: Christoph Bull, Historian/Speaker/Guide
17/09/2021: Amanda Cotterell, Kent Ambassador, Canterbury Cathedral Trustee
12/10/2021: Sarah Slater, Hampton Court tour guide
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2019
08/01/19: Tim Barker-Bartholomew "Occasional Absurdities-The Life of an Actor and Novelist".
12/02/19: Alan Payne "The History of Playing Cards".
19/02/19: Gaye Ilsley "Lasting Power of Attourney" meeting @ Vigo Village Hall.
12/03/19: Amanda Cottrell "Kent International".
19/03/19: Darren Bubb "Advanced Motoring"
09/04/19: Ann Rachlin MBE "Ellen Terry - The First Superstar".
14/05/19: Annie Kemkaran-Smith "History of Leed Castle"
11/06/19: Rodney Buckland " A Trip Around the Solar System"
09/07/19: Our 4th AGM
13/08/19: "3Rs" (Review, Recruit, Re-Register) Members sign-up meeting
10/09/19: Melanie Gibson-Barton "Three Women, One Man - Glamour Wealth and Heartbreak"
08/10/19: Martin Lloyd "Passports, Assassins, Traitors and Spies".
10/12/19: David Tadd "The Forensic Investigation of Homicide".
26/11/19: @ Culverstone village Hall, PC Aimee Payne, "Beating Cyber Crime"
14/01/2020: Barbara Stevens "The History of Downe Village"
11/02/2020: David Astley " The Ambulance Service"
10/03/2020: Andy Thomas "Crop Circles"