Glyn Davies Andy Foster is the Fraud PROTECT Officer working in the Financial Crimes Investigation Unit of South Yorkshire Police. His dual role is to support vulnerable victims of fraud and to work with other support groups. He also does road shows and other events to bring fraudulent scams to public notice. ‘Operation Signature’ is the S.Y. … Read more
Peter has been a sports reporter for BBC radio for many years. He began by telling us that he was adopted at birth. His adoption has led to many questions in pursuit of his birth family during his life. In his childhood he lived in a council house in Pedmore with his father, Gerald Slater, … Read more
Barbara first began her talks when she was a member of her U3A Local History Group. She became particularly interested in the NHS because she was born only two weeks after the “birth” of the NHS on 5th July 1948. Her parents met in the Army and moved to London. At that time hospitals were … Read more
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