Glyn Davies The Honey Bee Show Peter Miles Peter has been a bee-keeper for over 45 years and is still finding out how bees do what they do. Imagine a computer that can fly, can navigate to the inch over a distance of ~7 miles and also contains a … Read more
Malcolm showed a presentation with hundreds of photographs of animals that he saw on his journey. India’s wildlife is totally different from African wildlife and although India draws tourists to see the culture, Taj Mahal etc. the wildlife is also well worth seeing. At the first National Park on his travels he photographed Asiatic lions. … Read more
Rosemary spoke about Tsar Nicholas II and Princess Alexandra of Hesse and showed us many photographs of the family, especially the children. Although the photographs were originally monochrome, many of them had been colourised to modern standards. Tsar Nicholas was born in 1868, the son of Tsar Alexander III. … Read more
Nancy has been the Editor of the Star and the Telegraph for two years. Although they once were run by separate editorial teams they are now under the same team. The Telegraph started as the Sheffield Evening Telegraph 130 years ago. It was the first daily paper. We saw a slide of the front page. … Read more
Moths have a bad reputation because most people think that they eat clothes. In fact they do not. It is the larvae of a very few moth species that eat clothes. These larvae probably fed on the linings in birds’ nests before humans wore clothes made of natural fibers. Generally moths do not lay eggs … Read more
After telling us how he found a gravestone with his name on it in St. Keys graveyard, Stephen began his story of the Redruth and Chasewater Railway beginning near Truro. His talk was accompanied by wonderful photographs that he has taken on his travels. He showed us Devoran Village Hall, which was once an engine … Read more