List of Speakers
2024
28th May - ' The History of AVRO' by Steve Abbott
11th June - 'Stalin' by Dave Walmsley
25th June - 'Memories of the Sixties' by Malcolm MacFarlane
9th July - 'The Ted Heath Story' by Eddie Little
23rd July - 'The History and Making of Walking Sticks' by Geoff Williams
6th August - 'Painting the Saints' by Paul Gillyon
20th August - 'Baron Egerton' by Corey Estensen
3rd September - 'The Roman Occupation of Britain' by Bryan Corke
17th September - 'To Infinity and Beyond' by Richard Kennon
1st October - 'A walk in the Himalayas' by John Carpenter
15th October - 'Air Traffic Control' by Nicky Patterson
29th October - 'Trafford Park' by Judy Popley
12th November - 'From Barrow to Baghdad' by Philip Caine
26th November - 'Appeasement' by Dave Walmsley
10th December - 'The Hale Ukulele Band' by Jean Peters
Previous talks have been on many varied subjects and have included :-
Black Holes, The Raid on Peenemunde, The North West Passage, History of Panama Canal, Wartime Resistance in Holland, Antarctica, Forensic Science, Western Woman in a Muslim World, Lady Randy, Churchill’s mother, Clashes with the KGB, In the steps of Livingstone, Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition, History of Recorded Music, The Hungarian uprising and my escape, DNA, it's use in Criminal investigations, A Yorkshireman in the Lancashire Leagues, An Englishwoman in the White House, Life and work of an Astronaut, The Science of Detection, The Young Queen, History of the English Longbow, Bletchley Park, Dynastic China, Old Comedians, The Captive Queen, Milestones in Forensic Science, Florence Nightingale, The Spitfire Wing, Commonwealth Graves, Robert Burns, life and loves, Mitford Girls, Hitler's Double-cross, Hidden Gems of Manchester, 3D Printing, Medical Imaging, RAF, Inheritance tales of a Litigator, Rebirth of VW, Edward Elgar-The Real Enigma, DIY Surgery, Reinvestigation Moors Murders, Battle of Waterloo, Behind the Mic- Radio Lancashire, Life and Times of a Busker, History of Mobile Phones, Life of an Auctioneer, Roman Occupation of Britain, Queen Victoria, History of Rubber Technology, Working with Manchester Homeless, RNLI, 1919 jazz arrives in Britain, Howard Somerville, Everest Pioneer& Missionary, Earthquakes, The Hunt for Hitler's Aerospace Secrets, Lies, damned lies, and statistics, How to avoid being scammed, Climate Change, Are we alone? The search for Life Beyond, The Falklands War, Cheshire's Ancient Mariner, The Lives and Music of Rodgers & Hart, The History of Christies Hospital, The Origin of Nursery Rhymes Parts 1&2, Entrepreneurs and their Empires, Faith, Fun and Fellowship, Regional Dialects, Casualties Union, The trials and tribulations of a wedding photographer, The 7 Years War, Life as a market trader, The Darling Buds of Maie, Sounds of the 50s, Mrs Pankhurst and The Suffragettes, A musical journey to America and back, Northerners, A Town in Crisis, Operation Mincemeat, Islands of the South Atlantic, The Gretna Girls and the Devil's Porridge, Growing up in the 40s and Northern Humour, The Battle of Agincourt, Working Mens' Clubs, Over paid and over here, Escape from Burma, The British in India, Paddy the Mole Catcher, The 60's, Decay or Decadence, Cartoonist, Eric Winkle Brown - Pilot, Life of a Prison Officer, Climate change & Electric Vehicles, The Reluctant Shepherdess, Bringing Law to life with laughter, Dodie Smith - Beyond the Spots, Fridtjof Nansen, The Battle of Mirbat, Life times of a Busker, Zeppelin Ship of Dreams, Through the eyes of a magician. The Life of a Prison Governor. The History of Manchester Theatres. Hale U3A Ukulele Band. Churchill. The Great Musicals of Stage & Screen. The Rise of Hitler. Made in Manchester. The Iditarod Trail. Blind Veterans. The Exceptional Life of Howard Hughes. A lifetime on Cormorant Alpha. The Landscape of the Peak District. Writing Crime Fiction. Confessions of an Immigration Judge.