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March 2023
The 483rd Meeting was held at Badgemore Park on the 14th February 2023. The guest speaker this month was John Brearley, who gave a presentation on The Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Arts & Crafts Movement. The backdrop of the Exhibition was the UK, then with a population of some 16 million people which…
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February 2023
The 482nd Meeting was held at Badgemore Park on the 14th February 2023. The Chairman welcomed the guest speaker and visiting guests to the meeting, and reports were provided to the meeting by the Chairman, Treasurer and Fellowship Secretary. The guest speaker was Patrick Heathcote Amery who is Production Director of the Nettlebed Creamery, based…
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January 2023
The 481st Meeting was held at Badgemore Park on 10th January 2023. The Chairman welcomed the guest speaker and visiting guests to the meeting. Reports were provided to the meeting by the Chairman, Treasurer and Fellowship Secretary. The guest speaker was Michaela Clarke of the Henley Herald: The Chairman thanked Michaela for the presentation which…
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December 2022
The 480th Meeting was held at Badgemore Park on 13th December 2022 and comprised a delicious Christmas Lunch, enjoyed by members, their spouses, partners and guests.
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November 2022
The 479th Meeting was held at Badgemore Park on 8th November 2022. The Chairman welcomed everyone and then announced that Peter Stone has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Club. Two recent new members (Nigel Balchin and David Bullock) gave short presentations to introduce themselves, with their background, career and various interests. Minutes:
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October 2022
The 478th Meeting was held at Badgemore Park Golf Club on October 10th, 2022. The Chairman welcomed everyone and there followed reports to the meeting by the Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary. The guest speaker at the meeting was Graham Horn of Blue Badge Tourist Guide who gave a talk, assisted by slides, entitled Climbing Kilimanjaro…
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September 2022
The 477th Meeting was held at Badgemore Park on 13th September 2022. The Chairman welcomed everyone and there followed a 2-minute silence. The guest speaker was Colin McEwen who spoke about Charles Wheatstone, Inventor and Musician: Minutes:
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August 2022
The 476th Meeting was held at Badgemore Park on 9th August 2022. The Chairman, Viv Emerson, welcomed everyone and reports were made by the Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer. The speaker was Tim Woods, an elder statesman within the Club, who started his talk by recalling how he remembered his childhood as part of the WW2…
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May 2022 (Annual General Meeting)
The 42nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Henley Men’s Probus was held at Badgemore Park on 10th May 2022. This was the first AGM to be held for 3 years due to the pandemic. The new Chairman, Viv Emerson, welcomed everyone and then invited all present to a minute’s silence for Graham Cross who recently…
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April 2022
The 472nd meeting was held at Badgemore Park on 12th April 2022. Reports to the meeting were provided by the Chairman, the Treasurer, and the Friendship secretary. The guest speaker was Kamran Irani who is Chairman of the Blood Bike Service for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire (SERVOBN): Kamran was an excellent speaker, and the…
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March 2022
The 471st meeting was held at Badgemore Park on 8th March 2022. After the formal business had been conducted, the Chairman introduced the guest speaker Wayne Bellamy who is the Royal Naval Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Manager for Chiswick which is the second busiest RNLI station in the UK and Ireland. The station was set up…
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February 2022
The 470th meeting was held at Badgemore Park on 8th February 2022. The Chairman opened the meeting by welcoming members and then summarised plans for the Club for the first 6 months of 2022. The guest speaker was Commander Tom Cunningham RNR who gave a talk and presentation entitled ‘Raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend on…
