Calendar

(G) Indicates guests especially welcome

2025

13th March - AGM for 2024-25

27th March - President's Lunch

10th April - Electric Vehicles: The Truth (and should I buy one?) - Richard Clifford

24th April - Stalag Luft III and life as a prisoner of War - Alistair Price

8th May - The Eagle - the thinking boy's magazine in the 1950's Chris Brown

13th May - Spring Visit

22nd May - Porton Down - Outbreaks, Epidemics and Preparedness - Prof. Nigel Silman

5th June -The SS Suevic and the night the RNLI saved 611 people - Galen Bartholomew

19th June - The 1963 Great Train Robbery - Steve Geale

3rd July - How the BBC Proms Gets to Your Screen - Mark Kershaw (G)

17th July - Summer Lunch

31st July - Midland Red - bigger than you ever imagined - Ashley Wakelin

14th August - Agricultural Conservation in Tanzania - Andrew Mayfield

28th August - Medical Detection Dogs - Dr Susan Dunnett

11th September - Probus Quiz

25th September - Ralph Vaughan William - Dr Tim Brain (G)

1st October - Autumn Visit

9th October - Flog It! - antiques and auctioning - Peter Ashburner

23rd October - Mary Quant - her life, career and designs - Ruth Lowe (G)

6th November- Lions led by donkeys? The Great War - how did we win it? - Dr Derek Clayton

20th November - Artificial Intelligence - The future is now - John Hanby

4th December - Anaesthesia - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - David Willatts

11th December - Christmas Lunch

2026

8th January - Mr Morris - the man, his money and his motors - John Douglas

22nd January - Rudyard Kipling - Mike Bottomly

5th February - Avon Probus Members' Talks

19th February - Researching and Writing The Mourning Brooch Trilogy - Dianne Page (G)

5th March - AGM for 2025-26

19th March - President's Lunch

2nd April

16th April

30th April

7th May - Spring Visit

14th May

28th May

11th June

25th June

9th June - Summer Lunch

23rd July

6th August

20th August

3rd September

17th September

24th September  - Autumn Visit

1st October

15th October

29th October

12th November

26th November

10th December - Christmas Lunch

2027

7th Jan 

21st Jan

4th Feb

18 Feb

4th March - AGM

18th March President's Lunch