April 2022 news

At our next monthly meeting on Monday, 9th May, Andrew Rowe will be returning to give a talk, this time titled “The Titanic – are you sure there are enough lifeboats?”.  This follows his entertaining talk on Hancock’s Half Hour last September.  On this occasion the talk will be in the form of a drama in … Read more

April 2022 news

The talk at our next meeting on Monday, 11th April, will be given by guest speaker Shaun Farrelly on the subject of “James Brindley – The Father of British Canal Engineering”. Born in 1716 to yeoman farmers in Tunstead in the Peak District, James Brindley was apprenticed at 17 to a millwright in Macclesfield before … Read more

February 2022 news

Our speaker on the 14th February will be Keith Stevens and his topic will be – ‘Covid – did we have to shoot ourselves in the foot?’ Keith started out as a graduate physicist working at the AEA on friction, wear and corrosion.  He moved on to work on surface coatings and treatments in an … Read more

Monthly Meeting

Mike Tingle on the subject of “Flagging Up the 750th Anniversary of Congleton’s Charter”.  This is a change to the originally scheduled talk.