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Monthly Meetings
These are held on the 3rd Monday each month at Wickham Bishops Village Hall, Church Road, Wickham Bishops CM8 3JZ.
The doors open at 1:30pm for a 1:45pm start.
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Remember to bring your plastic membership card with the bar code.
2024 Monthly Meetings:
| 15th January 2024 | Essex Coastal Marshes in Winter Liz Huxley Liz is a keen bird watcher and wildlife photographer. She has worked for the Essex Wildlife Trust for 15 years at Abberton Reservoir. She also leads guided walks. |
| 19th February 2024 | Easton Lodge Gary Matthews The talk covers the history of Easton Lodge, including the life of the Countess of Warwick , the WW2 airfield adjoining the gardens and the work of the Trust in restoring the gardens. |
| 18th March 2024 | Essex women that rocked the World Alan Pamphilon True stories of ten local ladies who influenced national history. |
| 15th April 2024 | Peter Butterworth and Janet Brown Tyler Butterworth The actor son of Peter Butterworth (Carry On films) and Janet Brown (best known for her Maggie Thatcher impersonation). A talk on the remarkable life of his parents. |
| 20th May 2024 | Medical History on the doorstep Richard Pusey Retired surgeon & London guide. |
| 17th June 2024 | The Women’s Land Army Nicky Reynolds The history of the WLA. Over 200,000 Land Girls worked in the WLA from June 1939 until November 1950. |
| 15th July 2024 | Social event with cream tea |
| 19th August 2024 | CHASE Africa Prof Stephen Brown Prof. Brown, a Trustee, will talk to us about the work of this charity to support partner organisations in Africa that enable access to family planning, healthcare and rights, whilst protecting the environment and building resilience to climate change. |
| 16th September 2024 | Staying Safe Online Barry Linton with an Essex Police Cybercrime Police Officer They will talk about the key risk areas and the latest scams being reported to the Essex Police, particularly those most affecting older people. |
| 21st October 2024 | AGM, then Beatrix Potter - The London Art Critic? Andrew Wiltshire Andrew will tell us about another side to this author’s young life. Decoding her secret journal on the paintings she viewed and very strongly criticised. |
| 18th November 2024 | Going, going, gone: A history of Auctions Tim Turner Tim returns to delight us with this history of the world of auctions. |
| 16th December 2024 | Christmas event Musical entertainment and refreshments. |
2025 Monthly Meetings:
| 20th January 2025 | Gainsborough’s House A talk on the recently extended and refurbished house in Sudbury and on the painter, Thomas Gainsborough. |
| 17th February 2025 | Blesma: The Limbless Veterans Brian Chenier Blesma, The Limbless Veterans, is an Armed Forces charity dedicated to assisting serving and ex-Service men and women who have suffered life-changing limb loss or the use of a limb, an eye or sight. We support these men and women in their communities throughout the UK. |
| 17th March 2025 | The 1952 Lynmouth Flood Disaster Philip McKinder |
| 21st April 2025 | Easter Monday No meeting. |
| 19th May 2025 | Stories behind the photos Barbara Mayer Barbara Mayer, a wildlife photographer, will talk about the challenges and memorable moments she faced whilst taking photos of big cats and other wildlife species. |