Evening Meetings

held at: Kesgrave Community and Conference Centre,

2023 Meetings

17th January - "It happened here in Suffolk"

Pip Wright

21st February - "Suffolk in Spring"

Tony Brown

21st March - "Orford Ness and Gull Project"

Reuben Denton Beasley and Karen Langley

18th April - "The Greatest Spy, George Blake"

Roger Hermiston

Roger contacted us to say he has Covid, the talk will be rearranged. See below.

16th May - "Circumnavigating the world on container ships"

Peter Hesketh

19th September - "Helen Heelis" (AKA Beatrix Potter)

Mark Michels

17th October - "Whisstock's Boat Yard, Woodbridge"

Sue Whisstock

21st November - "Gainsborough House"

Mark Bills

2024 Meetings

16th January - "Countryside in Winter"

Tony Brown

20th February - "The Greatest Spy, George Blake"

Roger Hermiston

19th March - "Horsey Windpump" + AGM

Bob Fossey

16th April - "Kindertransport"

Mike Levy

21st May - "Ipswich and its Rivers"

this includes both the Orwell and the Gipping.

John Warren

John Warren a director of Ipswich Maritime Trust and chair of the River Gipping Trust

17th September - "Waterways of the Tsars, a river trip from Moscow to St Petersburg "

Chris Parfitt

15th October - "The Eyes of the Few"

Graham Murchie

A brief history of early radar, its development and the establishment of the world’s first operational radar station at Bawdsey.

24th November - "Identifying, investigating and prosecuting international, Drug trafficking, money laundering and frontier fraud"

Jim Jarvis OBE

formerly a senior Investigator with Border Force, was HM Revenue and Customs.