What you can look forward to!!
May 2025
As usual our next meeting will be on Thursday 10th April 2025 at Bath & County Club, Queen’s Parade, Bath BA1 2NJ
We will gather at 11:00. There will be a talk by :
Lt. Col. M.W. Whitchurch MBE, Member of Institute of Royal Engineers
The title of the talk: -
British Defence Policy - an Introduction
The talk is expected to cover NATO, Defence capacity of Ukraine and expect the unexpected!
For those members who wish to receive extra background reading please contact Richard Griffiths <richardgri@googlemail.com>.
If members are able to attend please inform the secretary.
Dress code will be smart casual
Secretary: Brian Webber, brianwebber3@outlook.com
Tel No: 01225 469722 (Please leave a message if not available)
What you missed!!
April 2025
Dr. Andrei Calin, Emeritus Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, California, USA, and Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath.
The title of the talk: -
RHEUMA has it: -
” A hitch-hiker’s guide to rheumatology, and biomedical / epidemiological research “
He would like to discuss some exciting memories from his global travel in remote corners of the world, develop our understanding of important diseases while avoiding being eaten by a tribe of friendly cannibals, in Amazonas, Brazil! He enjoyed the company of Pima, Papago, Apache, Navaho and Haida, Amerindians in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona USA & British Columbia, Canada……and the Ainu tribe in North Island, Japan. These trips were interspersed by time at Cambridge, Harvard and Stanford Unis.
March 2025
A talk by Dave Walsh.
The title of the talk was ‘Inland Revenue Investigation of Serious Fraud’.
Dave covered the 3 ways that serious fraud is evaluated as worthy of investigation, his 40 years of service ferreting out culprits and how he managed this ‘business’ on our doorstep in Bristol. Sounds like a riveting topic!
February 2025
A talk by Robert (Bob) Constantine
Bob Constantine began his career as a trainee journalist on a local paper and became news editor of the Bath Chronicle and political editor of ITV regional news.
Along the way, Bob, who lives in Bath, saw massive changes in the way news is produced. He will talk about these as well as some of the stories he has covered, from Fred West to the coughing major, the building of the Second Severn Crossing, the end of Concorde, and a famous run-in with David Cameron.
January 2025
A talk by Lieutenant Colonel M W Whitchurch MBE MInstRE on “ Realities of War and Ukraine"
December 2024 News
Christmas Lunch !!
A delicious Christmas lunch with all its trimmings.
We were 25 in total and all enjoyed the company and the atmosphere.
Bath and County Club did a wonderful job.
November 2024 News
A delicious lunch on Thursday 14 November at Bath & County Club, Queen’s Parade, Bath BA1 2NJ
A talk by Lieutenant Colonel M W Whitchurch MBE MInstRE on “Learning from 1944”
