Below is the planned list of talks for 2023.
Date | Talk | Speaker |
06-Jan-23 | Spitzbergen | Ken Ingamells |
13-Jan-23 | Wrecks to Relics – Purton’s Mulberry Blueprint | Paul Barnett |
20-Jan-23 | Eden Revisited | Bjorn Watson |
27-Jan-23 | AGM | |
03-Feb-23 | Benedict’s rule 53 and the extensive research carried out by I.P. Freely | Rev Canon Graham Morris |
10-Feb-23 | Walk on the Thames Path (Part One) | Bill King |
17-Feb-23 | H-Bombs and Hula Girls | Wg Cdr Paul Shepherd |
24-Feb-23 | The Death of a King | Peter Petrie |
03-Mar-23 | Ostriches and Evolution | Dr Brian Bertram |
10-Mar-23 | Walk on the Thames Path (Part Two) | Bill King |
17-Mar-23 | W G Grace | Dr Tim Brain |
24-Mar-23 | Greenland | Ken Ingamells |
31-Mar-23 | Wag to WoMEC | Ray Stockall |
07-Apr-23 | Good Friday – no meeting | |
14-Apr-23 | Malc’s World of Music | Malc Lewis |
21-Apr-23 | Spring Lunch | |
28-Apr-23 | Short Trousers and Greaseproof Paper | Bill Irving |
05-May-23 | The First Spymaster | Peter Seymour and David Rose |
12-May-23 | The Mistresses of Charles II | Dr. Chris Scott |
19-May-23 | Three Men from China | Ron Jeffrey |
26-May-23 | BRIXMIS: Behind the Iron Curtain: An Argyll’s Story of Working in the Military Liaison Mission 1979 – 1981 | Hugh McLeod |
02-Jun-23 | My Photographic Journey | Syd Mathews |
09-Jun-23 | Cider Making in Gloucestershire – from Foxwelps to Firkins | Andy Meller |
16-Jun-23 | The Landscape of the Leach Valley | Alan Pilbeam |
23-Jun-23 | Funerary Monuments: Hidden Gems of World-Class Sculpture in Gloucestershire Churches | John Reid |
30-Jun-23 | Walk on the Thames Path (Part Three) | Bill King |
07-Jul-23 | Views of the Cotswold Way (Coffee Morning) | Kate Peake |
14-Jul-23 | 1956 Suez Crisis | Wg Cdr Paul Shepherd |
21-Jul-23 | A Walk to Rome | Chris O’Grady |
28-Jul-23 | Al Bowlly | Mike Bottomley |
04-Aug-23 | Radio & TV Hoaxes | Mike Aggleton |
11-Aug-23 | First Descent of the Grand Canyon | Ken Ingamells |
18-Aug-23 | John Nevil Maskelyne – Gloucestershire’s master of magic and mystery | Andy Meller |
25-Aug-23 | Concorde during development at Filton – 1962 to 1971 | Nick Humphris |
01-Sep-23 | How Close to WWIII (The Cuban Crisis) | David Head |
08-Sep-23 | Microlight adventures, good but not always excellent | Rob Cuckow |
15-Sep-23 | Fraud Protection | Danielle Sharples |
22-Sep-23 | Rout on the Riviera – Exercise Tiger – The Slapton Sands Disaster | Paul Barnett |
29-Sep-23 | Walk on the Thames Path (Part Four ‘Marlow to Runnymede’) | Bill King |
06-Oct-23 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Wiltshire | Nick Baxter |
13-Oct-23 | The Flag Man of Warden Hill | Alex Adlam |
20-Oct-23 | Marie Claire: Resistance Heroine. Coffee morning with the partners and guests | Peter Seymour |
27-Oct-23 | Lions | Dr Brian Bertram |
03-Nov-23 | tba | |
10-Nov-23 | Weaning Ourselves off Fossil Fuels – what it really means for us all | Geoff King |
17-Nov-23 | Sailing the Dream, Part 1 | Peter Seymour |
24-Nov-23 | The Great Train Robbery 1963 | Ian Boskett |
01-Dec-23 | Christmas lunch | |
08-Dec-23 | Quiz | Andy Bernard |
15-Dec-23 | The World of Magic and a Live Cabaret – coffee morning with the partners and guests | Bob King |
22-Dec-23 | no meeting | |
29-Dec-23 | no meeting |