Roger Ward

Keith Booker is the current treasurer for Dore PROBUS club. He retired relatively early in his career and he and his wife decided to see the world whilst they were still fit and able to do so. They have been on two world cruises and amassed a treasure trove of photographs in the process. Keith … Read more

The title of the talk was the title of her first book in a diplomatic crime series, but her talk was about her life working for the Foreign Office as a Diplomat. Jean was brought up in Harrow, quite close to Heathrow Airport, and as a child she used to watch the planes circling, waiting … Read more

Anne is the curator of Social and Oral History at the National Coal Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery which stopped production in 1985. Initially the site was known as the Yorkshire Mining Museum but in 1995 it became the National Coal Mining Museum for England. Anne’s talk was based on an exhibition held in 2006 … Read more

The title suggests that the talk would be about the autumn colours of the trees in New England. Not so! Bob Gellatly is a railway enthusiast and it was about a railway journey he took, with his wife to various parts of New England in the autumn of 2013 and the emphasis was on the … Read more

The title of the talk did not give much away regarding the content of the talk; in fact it was quite misleading because we thought we were going to be given a lecture on the history of the camel. How wrong we were. The title of the talk is in actual fact the title of … Read more

By the title you would be forgiven for thinking, what an odd combination and where is the link? Well we had two talks by two of our members, the first one being about seamless ring rolling by Andrew (Drew) Inglis from a sales directors point of view. Drew was Sales Director at Woodhouse & Rixson, … Read more