General Meeting: July 2024 Roger Browne is President of the Stockport Operatic Society and began singing and playing music at the age of 4. He spoke with great passion, humour and musicality about the development of jazz and musical theatre in the USA. He talked about how slavery, poverty, racism and the migration of Jews Read more

General Meeting: May 2024 At May‘s meeting we were treated to two speakers. First was Trevor Parkinson from Nottinghamshire’s Police talking about online safety. As he was speaking to an audience of mainly retired people, much advice and help were available. He included how to spot scams and to make it more difficult for the Read more

General Meeting: March 2024 Mike Storr had appeared here 6 years ago (2018). This was his follow up about his favourite Music Hall laughter-makers, beginning with the first panto dame in 1951 – Norman Evans at the Palladium. Mike's talk moved quickly and jumped between times (not easy taking notes for this report) . The Read more

General Meeting: February 2024 Catherine McAteer is a serious researcher in all things Russian and gave us a quite in depth explanation of why it is as it is.  Her talk opened in fluent Russian, which she explained was a language for most of Eastern Europe – not just the current Russia (the Baltic states Read more

General Meeting: January 2024 It was another one of those Speakers that probably appeared as very dry and technical on paper – but Wow (or maybe bow-wow). Ann explained that this was a comparatively new charity – about 50 years of experts recognising that dogs could detect bladder cancer in humans at around 50% of Read more