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October 2022 – The role of the High Sheriff and some Gurney family history

8th November 2022 Leave a Comment

Michael Gurney spoke about some of his family history and about his role as High Sheriff of Norfolk in 2021-22.  The Gurneys are a distinguished Norfolk family in their own right and Michael is the 13th Gurney to be High Sheriff of Norfolk since 1399!  Moreover Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), prison reformer, was born a Gurney,… [Continue Reading]

November 2022 – Coffee Morning

13th September 2022 Leave a Comment

Whilst the club is thriving at the moment, we do have room to be able to welcome new members. If you would like to meet some of our members and find out more about the club in an informal setting, please come along to the coffee morning that we have arranged on Tuesday 15th November…. [Continue Reading]

September 2022 – Poppyland Comunity Radio

11th September 2022 Leave a Comment

Paul Hensby and Mike Goldwater spoke to us about Poppyland Community Radio. This is an online-only service which started in February this year and is based at The Belfry Centre in Overstrand. Its aim is to combat loneliness and to encourage a sense of community; its programmes include “mardling” (chat) sessions, interviews and a wide… [Continue Reading]

August 2022 – Hocus Pocus!

4th August 2022 Leave a Comment

Club member Terry Robinson spoke to us on “Hocus Probus! A Spell of Magic”. He explained how he had been interested in numbers since a young age and raised the question of whether numbers were originally invented or discovered – a question that he left us to ponder! He pointed out how IT is dependent… [Continue Reading]

July 2022 – Weather Forecasting

6th July 2022 Leave a Comment

Chris Bell (who may be familiar from his TV appearances as a weather forecaster on Look East) spoke to us about meteorology. Chris is one of the directors of Weatherquest (a private weather forecasting company) and he also lectures in meteorology at the UEA. It was fascinating to learn of the many areas of life… [Continue Reading]

May 2022 – At Home with the Tudors

6th May 2022 Leave a Comment

On 3 May, we enjoyed a very humorous talk by Simon Partridge, entitled “At Home with the Tudors”. He pointed out that the Tudor period ran from 1485 to 1603, and in that period most people were either very wealthy or very poor. The very wealthy had large houses but small windows as glass was… [Continue Reading]

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