Our monthly meetings usually take place on the second Wednesday of each month except August, starting at 2.30pm. After any business is conducted a guest speaker will give a talk.
Our current venue is St Joseph’s Church Hall, 2 Falkland Grove, Dorking RH4 3DL.
Members’ guests and other visitors are welcome for up to two meetings, after which they are invited to become members. Admission for members and guests is free.
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- The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
13 May 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
Drawing on the wealth of humorous stories, aphorisms and historic speeches made by the man voted People’s Greatest Briton by a BBC poll in 2002, this month’s speaker, Stewart Linford, amuses, informs and entertains. With an interactive style, dressed and speaking as the wartime Prime Minister, Stewart takes his audiences on a journey illustrated by... - Death by Shakespeare
10 June 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, but how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? Speaker Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die. Was death by snakebite as serene as... - Not Just Safaris – South Africa’s Garden Route
8 July 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
Africa has become synonymous with wildlife reserves and safaris, but every country on the continent has so much more. In this talk, using personal experience and images, Sue Flipping takes us on a virtual trip through South Africa’s Garden Route – from green winelands and huge ostrich farms to caves deep underground and hills with... - The Golden Age of Travel 1836-1936
9 September 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
Ian Porter starts his talk with the coming of the railways and the rise of Thomas Cook, first in this country, and then further afield. This leads us into travel abroad including exotic trips to Egypt, and then we go on to the luxury of the Orient Express. The building of tunnels and roads abroad... - 1066: What actually happened & Why?
14 October 2.00pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
The year 1066, one of the most important and influential years in English history and it was a particularly busy year for Harold and William the Conqueror. We all know about the battle of Hastings but what happened before and after the battle? Although having had a career in HR with Ford, Glaxo, NatWest &... - Lest we Forget: Remembrance & Poetry of the Great War
11 November 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
Jonathan Jones looks at how we commemorate and remember the events of the Great War – the Cenotaph, the Unknown Warrior, Poppy Appeal and Torch of Remembrance, to name but a few. Interspersed with readings of WWI poetry by such authors as Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, the talk looks at...