Peter Clarke

Andy, a very wiry, tough photographer/journalist, preceded his talk with a short history of the Alaskan Klondike gold-rush in the late 19th Century.  Three Swedish gentlemen, strolling along a beach, found several large gold nuggets, which began what became the ‘Great Klondike Gold Rush.’  Within a year of the event a small town of 30,000 … Read more

The title only gives a hint of the subject. What we were offered was a learned and complex breakdown of the British monarchs, from the time of Alfred the Great 871 through the ages to our current royals, represented by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her family. Mike Ogden performed an amazing journey in one hour or … Read more

The ‘Woodland Trust’ is an organisation, which if it did not already exist, would have to be invented. It was founded in 1972 by a retired farmer and agricultural machinery dealer by the name of Kenneth Watkins, in Devon. By 1977 he had acquired 22 woods. The purpose of the Trust is to sympathetically manage … Read more