Ted Harrison

Since August 2020 (the resumption after the Covid-19 restrictions) our Club has held its monthly meetings at Congleton Golf Club, and we have much appreciated the welcome and hospitality we have received from the management and staff. Following a change to the arrangements we have enjoyed, future monthly meetings, starting with that on Monday 14th … Read more

The speaker at our next meeting on Monday 9th September will be Peter Hyde giving a talk on the work, and no doubt some of the more satisfying rescue achievements, of Oldham Mountain Rescue Team. Oldham Mountain Rescue Team was formed in 1964 as a voluntary organisation to provide free assist and rescue services within … Read more

The speaker at our next meeting on Monday 12th August will be Cath Couzens. Cath is a Medical Herbalist based in Macclesfield, and runs a private online clinic supporting patients all over the UK, as well as hosting workshops, events and herb walks. She previously ran an international PR agency until a health crisis landed … Read more

Our speaker for our meeting on Monday, 10th June is Neil Sheldon who will give a talk on the life and achievements of Alan Turing. Most notably, Alan Turing was one of the founders of computer science and played a major part in code-breaking during World War Two.  He also made lesser-known contributions to statistics, … Read more

The speaker at our next meeting on Monday 13th May will be George Pilkington.  The title of his talk will be “Birds n Bees”, an illustrated nature talk covering the courtship behaviour of birds and bees in our gardens, along with a few others.  This talk replaces that on Ten Thousand Years of Bling by … Read more

The invited speaker for our next meeting on Monday 8th April will be George King, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Manchester University. Professor King’s research activities centred around the study of atoms and molecules using synchrotron radiation and electron impact excitation.  He has had more than 200 papers published on this subject, and still teaches … Read more

The speaker at our next meeting on Monday 11th March is Peter Webb who will be giving a talk on “Earthquakes”.  Not a common occurrence on our doorstep. An intriguing subject nevertheless.  Why and where do they happen?  How are they measured? Peter is an ever popular speaker at the Club, having given previous talks on … Read more

The talk at our next meeting on Monday 12th February will be titled “Water – the Elixir of Life” by Keith Stevens. Keith, a physicist with a career mostly in energy and power generation, has given several talks previously – most recently “From Flint to Fusion” and “Covid 19 – Did we shoot ourselves in … Read more

The speaker at our meeting on the 8th January is Karen Castle who will give a talk entitled “How I Ended Up in Prison”. Karen began her career by training as a nurse in Cheshire and working in various wards in the NHS.  Following a tough recruitment and selection process in the 1980’s, including numerous … Read more