Welcome to a new year of Grange Lecture Society’s TEN TALKS, which started in October 2024 and will end in March 2025. It is our 116th year, meeting as always at the Victoria Hall in Grange Town Centre. We gather at 7pm for a 7.15pm prompt start. We are holding our membership fee at £46 again for the season (with entry on the night for one-off Talks at £10).
On November 12th a good audience enjoyed Sue Jeeves’ excellent talk on her adventurous father Stanley Jeeves – photographer and stalwart of the Council for the Protection of Rural England.
Our next talk will be Hugh Ellwood – Birth of the Celtic Tiger, an in depth cultural and historical journey through the Celtic tribes of Ireland. and on the 10th of December Laura Massey-Pugh and Steven Massey present ‘A Record-Breaking Tandem Tour Around the World.’ Perhaps they will arrive on two wheels! Then we shall be half way through the program for this year. We return on January 21st with one for the gardening enthusiast: ‘Gardening in a changing world.’
Programme Secretary Richard Hinchcliffe has been joined by Phillip Helliwell to arrange speakers for the winter 2025 to 2026 with dates provisionally confirmed with Victoria Hall. A taster event is planned for 19th August 2025 and an extra free presentation perhaps on 23 September 2025. Save the dates. Our first talk for the main season will be 14 October 2025.
In our programme we will have speakers from the Royal Horticultural Society, the Lake District National Park and we will also learn how to set a world record cycling around the world on a tandem!
Membership of the Lecture Society for 2024 to 2025 looks to be very similar to last year but more are always welcome. Why not come along and help us on the committee it is a way of supporting your community: new ideas always welcome. Just three or four meetings a year – all over in 90 minutes. We now meet at Grange Institute in Main Street. If you have admin skills or promotional skills, they would be most welcome! Just making new friends is fun too.
At each talk, our treasurer will be on hand with his card reader and cash box to sign up new members. So, a great chance for you to sign up for the season, or buy a ticket as a gift for a friend.
We welcome your input into the programme – please email us or phone should you have a connection with a speaker who could enrich our future programmes.
Kind regards,
Peter Ratcliffe
