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Meetings are held at 7:30pm on the second Wednesday of each month at
Broadway House, Orwell Rd, Felixstowe, IP11 7DD.

Members are free, Non-members £3.

  Some meetings may be a Hybrid meeting, i.e. Broadway House and also broadcast via Zoom.   
  Watch out for details on each speaker. If it is not shown as a Zoom meeting it will be at Broadway House only. 
 The Friday Drop-In Sessions are also held at Broadway House. 10.15am to 12.00 noon. See dates below and in "Friday Drop-In Sessions item".
 There is a large, FREE after 6pm, municipal car park to the rear of the meeting place which is accessible from Highfield Road.

Date Title   Speaker(s)
 24/11/2023 Friday Drop-in Session.
 
   Nicholas Smith
 13/12/2023  

"Medical Detection Dogs."

This charity has been training dogs to save lives using their amazing sense of smell,
with Medical Alert Assistance Dogs and their Bio Detection Dogs.

    Norma Howell
 10/01/2024

"I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside"

This Seaside talk will remind you of Summer days when the Paddle Steamers and the Railway led to the
development of the East Anglian seaside resorts and an in depth look at Harwich and Dovercourt.

   David Whittle
 26/01/2024 Friday Drop-in Session.    Nick Smith
 14/02/2024

"National Coastwatch Institute" (NCI)

 Volunteers called watchkeepers provide the eyes and ears along the coast, monitoring radio channels 
and providing a listening watch in poor visibility. Dick will talk about how NCI Felixstowe works.

   Dick Daniels
 23/02/2024 Friday Drop-in Session.    Nick Smith
 13/03/2024

"Social Eveninmg and Quiz"

The return of last year's successful social evening.

   The Committee
 22/03/2024 Friday Drop-in Session.    Nick  Smith
 10/04/2024

"Getting a Gong"

An underserving BEM holder tells all. 

   Roy Tricker
 26/04/2024 Friday Drop-in Session.    Nick Smith
 08/05/2024 "Humour in Genealogy"    Chris Broom
 31/05/2024 Friday Drop-in Session.    Nick Smith
 12/06/2024

"The Western Front WW1"

 The public perception of WW1 soldiers is that they stood in trenches during their 
tour of duty  on the front line. But with artillery accounting for 70% to 80% of
casualties,  most soldiers after the dawn rollcall went underground for safety,
 either in bunkers or deeper in tunnels and caves. Whilst underground they wrote
their  names and messages on the walls. For thirty years I have been
a member of the Durand Group. Our prime mission is to find and neutralise
massive unexploded mine charges still viable in tunnels stretching across
no mans land in northern France. In doing so we find a wealth of graffiti
never been seen since the end of the war,  and sometimes we are able
to trace living relatives of the soldiers that wrote their names.

 

 David Hedges

 ‘finding graffiti
 made by WW1
 soldiers in caves 
 and tunnel under
 the front line -
 and tracing the
 living relatives '

 28/06/2024 Friday Drop-in Session.    Nick Smith
 10/07/2024

"Ipswich Public Transport History"  

A digital presentation on behalf of Ipswich Transport Museum of Ipwich’s public transport
history from the town’s Horse Trams 1880-1903, Electric Trams 1903-1926,
Trolleybuses 1923-1963 and their replacement by diesel buses 1950-1964.

   Dave Carson
 26/07/2024 Friday Drop-in Session.    Nick Smith

 

 

 

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