Date

18 September 2024

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Title

Annual General Meeting

Around the World for Eighteen Pence: Exhibitions in London 1871 to 1924

The American Dream

Christmas Lunch

(Tandridge Golf Club)

Secret Siberia: an illustrated journey by rail

Buttle UK- Giving children in crisis a chance for change

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the Norwood Years

Curing cancer- how research is done and how it is funded

My neighbour Roald Dahl

Prinny,  Caroline and the Mob

My life as a loyal air Force Policeman 1970 -1992

Speaker

No speaker

Michael Gilbert

Andrew Baker

No speaker

Paul Whittle

Joe Howes (CEO Buttle) and David Buttle (great nephew of founder)

Bernard Winchester

Dr Jeremy Carlton, Reader in Molecular and Cell Biology , Kings College London

André Potocki

Elizabeth Lanyon

Philip Waite

Description

It wasn't just the Great Exhibition of 1851 that thrilled the country but there was a series of subsequent international exhibitions in London - these include annual exhibitions in South Kensington 1871- 74, the Imperial International Exhibition at White City in 1809 and the Crystal Palace Festival of Empire in 1911. The culminating exhibition was that of 1924/25 at Wembley when millions visited to see the wonders of the modern world

With a new President just elected we hear what is (or was) the 'American Dream'  and how it has changed over time

For most of us Siberia remains a mysterious, frozen and desolate  region with sinister reminders of its history as a Soviet dumping ground for criminals and dissidents. More than five times the size of the UK but with a population  not much more than half, this will be a visit to an unknown land.

The story of Buttle UK, an important charity founded by Rev Frank Buttle who lived in Woldingham before becoming a priest in East London

Conan Doyle lived for only four years in Tennison Road, South Norwood but it was one of his most productive periods during which over twenty of the Sherlock Holmes series and his historical novels The White company appeared

Dr Carlton takes us through the front line of research as new answers are found

André from Sandown Probus talks of his years as a neighbour of celebrated author Roald Dahl and the influence of Great Missenden and its people on the plots and characters in his books

When the future George IV met Caroline, his future wife, he turned to his secretary and said "Harris, I am not well. Pray get me a glass of brandy." The marriage was probably the worst ever Royal marriage, in a well filled field, and London almost succumbed to the Mob.


Home and abroad with the RAF including what went on behind the scenes for Royal, Ministerial and VVIP visits