March 2025 Meeting and talk – “Behind Closed Doors – The Life of a Prison Officer”
Date: Wednesday 26th March 2025 Speaker: Pauline Martindale Title: Behind Closed Doors – The Life of a Prison Officer Prison, for most people, if they think of it at all, is probably a place of dark corridors with metal gates that clang shut and little life in them except for key swinging warders who think […]
April 2025 Meeting and talk – “A Victorian Farmer: The Diaries of John White of Rickmansworth”
Wednesday 23 April 2025 A Victorian Farmer: The Diaries of John White of Rickmansworth John White was a very well known and well respected man in Rickmansworth and across Hertfordshire. Born in 1813, he had the Parsonage farm in Rickmansworth from at least 1839, with his father William the tenant of the adjacent Appletree Farm […]
May 2025 Meeting and talk – “A Beginning, A Muddle and an End: Where do Novelists get their Ideas from?”
Wednesday 28 May 2025 A Beginning, A Muddle and an End: Where do Novelists get their Ideas from? In an entertaining, informative talk, Bobbie Darbyshire will explain how the complex world of character, location, plot and subplot arrives in a writer’s mind. Speaker: Bobbie Darbyshire was the winner of the 2008 fiction prize at the […]
June 2025 Meeting and talk – “RNLI – It’s Not All at Sea”
Wednesday 25 June 2025 RNLI – It’s Not All at Sea The talk explains how the modern RNLI continues to provide the world’s finest marine rescue service entirely funded by voluntary contribution. It includes short video clips, pictures and sound to ensure the very best understanding of RNLI operations, equipment and training reinforced with stories […]
