The Probus Club of Huntingdon and St Ives

 

Meetings Programme 2020-2021

 

The 2020/21 programme was disrupted due to the Covid19 pandemic.

However, our lunches have now resumed.

 

Date

Speaker

Title

7th April

Peter Cox

The Tracked Hovercraft Project (The Hovertrain Experiments)

The story of the rise & fall of Britain’s wheel-less “railway in the sky”

5th May

Sarah Doig

A Sign of the Times: Local History told through East Anglian Village Signs 

2nd June

Mike Petty

Ghosts & Witches of Cambridgeshire: Eyewitness Accounts in Fact and Fiction 

7th July

Andrew Jude

What Goes Up Must Come Down, or
Maybe Not?

4th August

Ladies' Summer Lunch 

No Speaker

 

1st September

Terry James

The Story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The charity that saves lives at sea

6th October

Jonathan Crisp

(Education Officer, Waste Treatment, Cambridgeshire)

What Happens to the Waste You Throw Away?

 

3rd November

Richard Gibbons

The Russians are Coming!

The Cold War from a Soviet perspective, and hysteria in the West

1st December

Christmas Lunch

Mike Wabe

Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’

An hour’s adaptation of Dickens' famous Christmas story, delivered by none other than Charles Dickens himself

5th January 2021

Nigel Sutton 

(Cambridgeshire Police)

Fraud & Cyber Security 

2nd February

President's Lunch

Speaker to be advised

 

2nd March

No Speaker

Annual General Meeting