Sorry to have been off the air for a while but there has been a bit of sorting out to do behind the scenes and it is only this morning it is all in place.
The meeting on 8th August will be held in Lordshill Church Hall, Lordshill District Centre, from 10.30a.m. to noon.
As from the meeting to be held on Monday 12 September we will be back to the TV Room, Second Floor, Manston Court, Lordshill, and that will be our permanent home for meetings on the second Monday of every month.
Committee meetings will be held in the Computer Lounge, First Floor, Kinloss Court, Lordshill.
The presentation on 8th August will be a short talk on the history of brewing, delivered by our Chairman, the Rev. Robert Sanday, which will be followed by the main talk, which is 'Minden Day', being a day celebrated on 1st august every year by six regiments of the British Army to commemorate the Battle of Minden in 1759, in which the men of Hampshire were involved. The talk will be delivered by Major Michael Humme, MBE.
On Friday, September 9th there is a trip to the New Forest, followed by a pub lunch. Leaving Lordshill at 10.30 a.m. and back around 4 p.m. Cost per person £6 for transport, plus the cost of lunch, for which we hope to get a 'Special' at a convenient pub. More about this at the meeting on 8th August when we must go firm on numbers.
The talk on Monday 12 September has not yet been decided between two alternative subjects, which will be sorted at the August committee meeting, so watch this space.
In October we have our honoured member, the prize winning author, Penny Legg, talking to us about her latest book 'Voices of Southampton'
November 1st will see us at Hollybrook Cemetery where, by request of members of his family we will place flowers on the grave of a German air force man killed during WW2.
November 11th. we will again be in Hollybrook Cemetery to put poppies on the graves of WW2 servicemen.
Incidently, this is becoming something of a objective for the Society, as on 21 February 2012 we will place a wreath on the memorial in Hollybrook Cemetery, commemorating 649 soldiers of the South African Army who died when the ssMendi sank off the Isle of Wight on 21 February 1917. It having come to our attention they have not been specifically rememberd in the past, in spite of their names forming the majority of those on the memorial.
Our regular meeting on Monday 14 November will see a presentation on the history and work of SSAFA - Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Families Association, a joint effort between our Chairman, Secretary, and Bruce Hartnell, Secretary of the Southampton Division of SSAFA. From this talk it will be very apparant that SSAFA does rather more than 'Give Advice' to people.
That takes us to December when we will hear about the origins of Santa Claus, and hopefully a Christmas party.
Bye for now,
John Gurney
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