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PROGRAMME  2007

January 2nd Ray Groome Touring the Golden Triangle of India
January 9th Business meeting  
January 16th Michael Leach admission by ticket only
January 23rd Joan Roe  A World in one Country
January 30th Members morning  
February 6th Dr Richard Dover  
February 13th    
February 20th Danny Beath Southern Islands of the South
February 27th Members morning  
March 6th Business meeting  
March 13th Dr Barrie Raynor Researching the History of Houses
March 20th George Pearce  The Lifestyle of the Fox
March 27th Members morning  
April 3rd Grace Cookson The British Red Cross
April 10th Barry Williams Travelling the World as an Acrobat (tbc)
April 17th Peter Boyd Potty About Plants (with particular reference to the Victorian's use on Shrop china)
April24th Members morning  
May 1st Business meeting  
May 8th Dr. Sylvia Watts Shropshire Towns of the 16c and 17c
May15th Dr. John Sale Burma: The Country and Its People
May 22nd Dorothy Nicolle Brother Cadfael
May 29th Members morning  
June 5th David Crowther, Driving Standards Agency Arrive Alive Classic
June 12th Peter Sheldrake Snail Beach Lead Mines
June 19th Dr. Dawn Milner The Tobacco Epidemic
June 26th Mike Lister Montgomeryshire Turnpikes, Tolls & Traffic (1675 - 1900)
July 3rd Group Presentations  
July 10th Rev. Christopher Penn Before the Cloth: Changes in Farming Over the Last 25 Years
July 17th David Armstrong How Not to Write a Novel
July 24th Fedor Herbatschek Islam
July 31st NO MEETING  
August 7th Squadron Leader Sinclair Low Flying Military Aircraft
August 14th Business meeting  
August 21st Lin Foley Relate
August 28th Members morning  
September 4th Keith Offord Roadrunner Country
September 11th Peter Shepherd Heritage & Horticulture - Places With a Story to Tell
September 18th David Greig The Cambrian Railway
September 25th Louise Idoux Herbalism
Friday September 28th,  7 – 9 pm Special talk :- Judith Townsend Bin Baby – From being abandoned as rubbish in Kuala Lumpur to becoming a District Nurse in the UK
October 2nd Members morning  
October 9th Alan Gordon The Life and Works of L.S.Lowry
October 16th Peter Brown, Council Member and Journal Editor of the Railway & Canal Historical Society, Heritage & Planning Officer of the Shrewsbury & North Wales Branch of the Inland Waterways Association, Local History Group Leader, Market Drayton U3A Thomas Telford
October 23rd Dr Deniz Baker, NEWI  ‘Somewhere between heaven and hell: symbolism and location in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights' and two screen versions, William Wyler’s 1939 film and Peter Kosminsky’s version 1992’
October 30th Bob Hatt Woodbine Willie: the Rev Geoffrey Ankettell Studdert Kennedy, chaplain in 1st WW & to king George V & champion of the poor, author of WWI poetry book
November 6th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING  
November 13th Anniversary Lunch, Wynnstay Hotel  
November 20th Kal Parkash, Diversity Officer for Shropshire County Council The Fight Against Hate Crime
November 27th Members morning  
December 4th Allan Dawes, local naturalist Wildlife in the Galapagos Islands
December 11th Christmas Party  
December 18th Dr. L Smith, Historian Houses of Industry - Local Workhouses