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Our guest speaker for our meeting on Monday, 13th March, will be Brian Price, returning to us following his highly entertaining talk, “A Life on the Ocean Wave”, last June.   This time, his talk will be titled “Awakening the Dragon” and feature his experiences taking visitors into China in the early days of it opening … Read more

At our meeting on 13th February, we will be given a talk by Steve Abbott on the subject of Avro and the legacy of our aviation industry.  Steve began his career in 1965 as an apprentice at Hawker Siddeley Aviation, subsequently British Aerospace and then Bae Systems, and worked there until he retired in 2002. He … Read more

Before the standard monthly meeting on 9th January, the Club held an Extraordinary General Meeting at which a previously circulated change to the Club’s Constitution was agreed by the members present.  The new constitution now provides for welcoming lady members into the club.  This had followed discussions with interested ladies from the former Congleton Ladies Probus … Read more

At our next meeting on Monday, 9th January, David Poppitt will be giving a talk entitled “The History of the Christie Hospital”.  His presentation will focus on his time at the Christie and the history of the developments which have led to it becoming what it is today. David worked for over 20 years in … Read more

The speaker at our next meeting on Monday 12th December is Mike Tingle.  Mike is author of three Congleton Town Trails available from the Tourist Information Centre.  For our Charter Anniversary Year he added an illustrated Heritage & Heraldry Trail, explaining the significance of heraldic symbols displayed on the town centre flags and banners, about which most people would … Read more

The speaker at our next meeting on Monday 14th November is Farouk Kardahji, on the subject of “Lebanon – Past, Present and Future”.  Farouk is Lebanese by birth and came first to the UK to further his studies, initially in biochemistry.  Having qualified as a podiatrist, he worked at Manchester Foot Hospital before moving to … Read more

A Christmas lunch has been arranged at Congleton Golf Club to follow our meeting on 12th December.  Partners of members are invited to both the talk and the lunch.  The subject of the talk has been changed to be more generally appealing.  It will now be presented by Mike Tingle on the subject of Congleton’s … Read more

The speaker at our next meeting on Monday 10th October is the much travelled photographer, Brian Anderson, who will give a talk entitled “Peru, land of the Incas”. Brian, based on the Wirral, has visited over 66 nations and territories, N to S from the Geographic North Pole to Antarctica and E to W from … Read more

We will be welcoming an extremely accomplished speaker and writer as the guest speaker at our next meeting on Monday 12th September.  He is Ken Pye, Fellow of Liverpool Hope University, and most recently Managing Director of ‘The Knowledge’, a consultancy that designed and delivered business-leadership and professional-development courses and workshops, until his retirement in … Read more

The speaker at our next meeting on Monday, 8th August, will be Frank Dean,  The title of his talk is “Comedians”. Frank graduated from Salford University in Electrical Engineering and worked at Ferranti on diverse projects for the Met Office and nuclear submarines. He then moved into robotics for the pharmaceutical industry working extensively with … Read more