Programme 2024

Colour Code KEY:
External Speaker
Internal Speaker
Probus Event
Other events

Date Speaker or Event Speaker -Host, & Reporter
 Subject
 Thursday

11 Jan 2024

Basil Butler Henry Life & Times of Basil Butler
Thursday

18 Jan 2024

1900 for 1930

Skittles v Yew Trees WI
Thursday

25 Jan 2024

 

Leslie Hatcher

 

Henry What was wrong with the BAC Lightning ?

(An ex-RAF pilot’s view of this amazing aircraft)

Thursday

15 Feb 2024

Paul Murphy The Amazing Life of Charlie Chaplin Pt 2

 

Thursday

29 Feb 2024

 

Nigel & Alexandra Lloyd-Jones

 

Driving Safely in Winter
Thursday

21 Mar 2024

Lindsey Johnson Reducing the Risk of Falls

 

29 Mar – 1 Apr Easter N/A
Wednesday 10 Apr Chris Witts Life on the Severn
Thursday 25 Apr 2024

 

Andy Meller

 

John Neville Maskelyn – Gloucestershire’s Master of Magic & Mystery
Wednesday 8 May 2024 Martin Gower

(Former board member of 2 NHS trusts 2009 – 2020)

 The NHS – A Jewel in the Crown…. or a Patient in need of Therapy?
Thursday 23 May 2024 Peter Ashburner Antiques & Autioneering
Thurs 6 Jun 2024 John Gayler The Crown Jewels
Friday 14 Jun 2024 Outing – 3 Counties Show Malvern
Thursday      20 Jun 2024 Colonel Tony Singer OBE The iPhone – its practicality for “Us Oldies”
Thursday       4 Jul 2024 Jack Boskett Royal Photography & Trains

(followed by buffet lunch with partners)

Thursday

18 Jul 2024

Gerald South Throwing Light on Light
Summer Break
Thursday

5 Sep 2024

Sir Alistair McDuff TBA
Thursday

19 Sep 2024

Mike Bottomley Al Bowlly, the first British pop star
Thursday

3 Oct 2024

 Peter Gill

 

Noel Coward
Thursday

17 Oct 2024

Thursday

31 Oct 2024

 

Ralph Hazel

TBA
Thursday

14 Nov (or 13th)

AGM TBC
Thursday    28 Nov 2024 Steve Tulley Walking the Coast
Wednesday 11 Dec 2024 Christmas Dinner
Winter Break
Thurs 9 Jan 2025
Thursday

18 Jan 2025

Skittles

TBC

Probus v Yew Trees WI