Monthly Guest Speaker Meetings
The monthly meetings are held at Malvern Cube from 2.30pm
Scheduled meetings are as follows:
Tuesday 29th October 2024
Max Hunt - Shelsley Walsh: The Story of a Village.
The talk will cover a thousand years of the history of Worcestershire's smallest parish, from the Norman conquest, taking in the Gunpowder Plot and the Teme valley iron trade, as well as the Earls of Dudley at Witley Court and the arrival of the Midland Automobile Club with the famous motor hill-climb from 1905.
Tuesday 26th November 2024
Ashley Butterfield - Taking Group trips Overland to India Using Public Transport & The Real India by Rail
After hitch-hiking to India aged 17, Ashley decided to start a business: taking passengers overland from England to India. He did this 80 times, initially by minibus, but after many problems with breakdowns and their consequences, he found a way of doing this journey using public transport! Whilst in India he spotted an old railway carriage being used for wedding parties. Indian railways agreed to hire this to him. With a basic kitchen and two no-frills dormitories, this was attached to regular trains to travel round India. In this way Ashley led over 100 circular month-long tours from Delhi to South India and back!
Tuesday 28th January 2025
Jackie Lucas - LPA made Simple
Lasting Power of Attorney, financial planning and related matters: A timely update and clarification of the rules and process to follow
Tuesday 25th March 2025
Helen Chapelhouse - An Introduction to Medical Detection Dogs
Medical detection dogs are super sniffers, using their incredible sense of smell to save lives each and every day. The speaker will tell us how it all started, introduce us toMDD’s amazing dogs and share with us the science behind the sniff
Tuesday 29th April 2025
Bernard Lockett - The Heritage of Gilbert and Sullivan
A talk about the story and heritage of Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan, fully illustrated with video excerpts from their comic operas
Thursday 26th June 2025
Philip Caine - Barrow to Baghdad and Back Again
Philip will talk about his career starting out early on as a chef, then spending time as a hotel manger, on the oil rigs in the North sea, and projects in Algeria and Nigeria. Working in Kazakhstan, Russia and ending up in Dubai via Baghdad. All this giving plenty of background for his novels, the latest being number 10!