THE PROBUS CLUB OF MOLESEY
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2024
October 14th - Richard Peck(M) - Cyprus 1962 - 1965
September 9th Stephen Chater - 'Ruin, Wren and Renewal'
August 12th - Ian Donaldson(M) - Inside 10 Downing Street
July 8th – AGM - Middle East Memories Discussion(M)
June 10th – Celia Holman – Eel Pie Island
May 13th – Tim Harness - French and Portuguese Royal Families in Twickenham
April 8th - Andy Richardson - British Aerospace Industry
March 11th - Ian Franklin - 25 Years a Warden at Hampton Court Palace
February 12th - Lucy Quinnell - Teazle Wood
January 15th 2024 - Festive Lunch - Casa Mia
2023
Monday 11th December - Roger Dobbing - My Life In The Police
Monday 13th November - Peter Stammer - “What you may not know about Operation Chastise”
Monday 9th October – Terry Johnson - The Life Story of Mandy Rice Davis
Monday 11th September – Ian Donaldson (M) – The Sultan and I
Monday 14th August -Becky Law – Thames Landscape Strategy
Monday 10th July - AGM & Martin Gibson – Obscure London
Monday 12th June - Tim Harness - Hounslow Powder Mills
Monday 15th May 2023 - Michael Woolard - Journalism and the BBC
Monday 17th April 2023 - Lorimer Burns - Flying From A Pilot's Eye View
Monday 13th March - David Meaden – ‘Turner’s House’
Monday 13th February – Terry Johnson – ‘The Spitfire’
Monday 16th January 2023 Festive Lunch at Casa Mia Restaurant, Hampton Court
2022
Monday 12th December - Terry Johnson – ‘Terence Cuneo - Local Artist’
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Monday 14th November - Molesey Heath - Flora and Fauna - speaker Ben Watson
Thursday 27th October - Visit to Mini Production Line, Cowley
Monday 10th October - 'Gales, Greenhouses, Global Warming, is our Climate Changing? - Ian Currie
Monday 12th September - 'Leaking like a Sieve' - Terry Johnson
Monday 8th August - 'Bond Girl' - Madelaine Smith
Monday 13th July - Probus AGM - MG Cars - Roger Marlow (M)
Monday 27th June Summer Lunch at Casa Mia, Hampton Court
Monday 13th June - R C Sheriff (Playwright) - Peter Allen
Monday 9th May - Wars of the Roses and Margaret Beaufort , Mother of Henry V11 - Stephen Chater
​Monday 11th April - The Bentley Boys, The Playboy Racers - David Skillen
Monday 14th March - The Great Escape - Joanna Bristow-Watkins
Monday 14th February 2022 - Kent, Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance Service - Beryl Smith
January Festive Lunch at Casa Mia, Hampton Court (Postponed Covid)
2021 (Meetings Disrupted Because Of Covid)
Monday 13th September 2021 - Bavaria - Light and Dark - Speaker Roger Marlow (M)
Monday 9th August 2021 - Wren, Ruin and Renewal - Stephen Chater (Zoom)
Monday 14th June 2021 - Rowhurst: A History (Blacksmithing) - Lucy Quinnell
Monday 10th May 2021 - Mr Plod & The Planes (Heathrow) - Martin Gibson (M)
Monday 12th April 2021 - King John & The Magna Carta - James Dickinson
Monday 8th March 2021 - The Kilted Tommy - Simon Waterfield
Monday 8th February 2021 - The Cross Roads of Europe & Asia - Colin Duncan (M)
January Festive Lunch cancelled (Covid)
2020 (Meetings Disrupted Because Of Covid)
Monday 9th March 2020 - Sex, Secrets, Scandal & Gossip of the Royal Court 1660 - 1830 - Sarah Slater
Monday 10th February 2020 - Scottish Poets - Ken Brown (M)
Monday 13th January 2020 - Festive Lunch - Casa Mia Hampton Court
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2019
Monday 9th December - Seasons of Yellowstone - Roger Reynolds (Photographer)
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Monday 11th November - Hard Graft in Albania - Masoud Ahmadi and Peter Hodgson (M)
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Monday 14th October - A Japanese Odyssey - Peter Parker (M)
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Monday 9th September - My Early Days in Mauritius - Jay Woogara
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Monday 12th August - The Fall of Singapore - Kris Nisson (M)
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Tuesday 23rd July - Summer Lunch - Squiffy's, Hampton Village
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Monday 8th July - The New Iron Age (Blacksmithing Past & Present) - Lucy Quinnell
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Monday 10th June - Bee Keeping - Kate Canning
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Monday 20th May - Visit Langdon Down Museum, Normansfield
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Monday 13th May - Cub On The Moors (Starting in Journalism) - Tim Albert
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Monday 8th April - By Morris Minor to Moscow - Ian Donaldson (Member)
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Monday 11th March - Unexplained Mysteries & Cover-Ups - Andy Thomas
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Monday 11th February - Painshill Park - Graham Dash
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Monday 10th January Festive Lunch - Casa Mia
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2018
Monday 10th December - Fishborne & Hampton Court - Ian Franklin
MY LIFE
speaker: Nigel Cooper (member)
Monday 12th November 2018
PERILS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
speaker: Peter Parker (member)
KING EDWARD II AND THE SHE-WOLF
speaker: James Dickinson
Monday 8th October 2018
Monday 10th September 2018
THE IMPACT OF PRINTING
speaker: Peter Wade (member)
Monday 13th August 2018
SUMMER LUNCH at Squiffy's Restaurant, Hampton
Tuesday 7th August 2018
OUTING to Supreme Court & Houses of Parliament
Friday 20th July 2018
POLICE COMMUNICATION (following AGM)
Monday 9th July 2018
speaker: Martin Gibson (member)
NOT QUITE ARCHITECTURE
speaker: Ian Donaldson (member)
Monday 11th June 2018
MR GARRICK'S FIRESIDE
Monday 14th May 2018
A personal history of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
speaker: Pete Allen
FORGOTTEN VOICES -
Monday 12th March 2018
An overview of WW1 in France and Belgium
speaker: Maggs Latter
MOLESEY THEN AND NOW
Monday 9th April 2018
speaker: Jennifer Wood
(Molesey History Society)
speaker: Nick Handel
Monday 12th February 2018
IT'S ONLY TV - ONE DAY I'LL GET A PROPER JOB