What you can look forward to!!
June 2025
As usual our next meeting will be on Thursday 12 June 2025 at Bath & County Club, Queen’s Parade, Bath BA1 2NJ
We will gather at 11:00. There will be a talk by :
Tony Haines, a retired teacher.
His talk is entitled:
The work of Street Pastors in Bath.
It will cover the origins of Street Pastors as a national organisation, a typical night shift in Bath, including some rather strange encounters at 2 a.m. in the morning!
If members are able to attend please inform the secretary.
Dress code will be smart casual
Secretary: Brian Webber, brianwebber3@outlook.com
Tel No: 01225 469722 (Please leave a message if not available)
What you missed!!
May 2025
The talk by:
Lt. Col. M.W. Whitchurch MBE, Member of Institute of Royal Engineers
British Defence Policy - an Introduction
The talk covered NATO, Defence capacity of Ukraine and expect the unexpected!
April 2025
Dr. Andrei Calin, Emeritus Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, California, USA, and Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath.
The title of the talk: -
RHEUMA has it: -
” A hitch-hiker’s guide to rheumatology, and biomedical / epidemiological research “
He would like to discuss some exciting memories from his global travel in remote corners of the world, develop our understanding of important diseases while avoiding being eaten by a tribe of friendly cannibals, in Amazonas, Brazil! He enjoyed the company of Pima, Papago, Apache, Navaho and Haida, Amerindians in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona USA & British Columbia, Canada……and the Ainu tribe in North Island, Japan. These trips were interspersed by time at Cambridge, Harvard and Stanford Unis.
March 2025
A talk by Dave Walsh.
The title of the talk was ‘Inland Revenue Investigation of Serious Fraud’.
Dave covered the 3 ways that serious fraud is evaluated as worthy of investigation, his 40 years of service ferreting out culprits and how he managed this ‘business’ on our doorstep in Bristol. Sounds like a riveting topic!
February 2025
A talk by Robert (Bob) Constantine
Bob Constantine began his career as a trainee journalist on a local paper and became news editor of the Bath Chronicle and political editor of ITV regional news.
Along the way, Bob, who lives in Bath, saw massive changes in the way news is produced. He will talk about these as well as some of the stories he has covered, from Fred West to the coughing major, the building of the Second Severn Crossing, the end of Concorde, and a famous run-in with David Cameron.
January 2025
A talk by Lieutenant Colonel M W Whitchurch MBE MInstRE on “ Realities of War and Ukraine"
December 2024 News
Christmas Lunch !!
A delicious Christmas lunch with all its trimmings.
We were 25 in total and all enjoyed the company and the atmosphere.
Bath and County Club did a wonderful job.
November 2024 News
A delicious lunch on Thursday 14 November at Bath & County Club, Queen’s Parade, Bath BA1 2NJ
A talk by Lieutenant Colonel M W Whitchurch MBE MInstRE on “Learning from 1944”
