Programme for 2024/5

2024

Monday 8th January

David Taylor : American Football - Is it interesting?

Monday 12th February

Norman Harris : Machu Picchu - The Hard Way - Trekking in the Andes

Monday 11th March

John Hutchinson : The Coming of the Railways

Monday 8th April

Rod Hamm : Before the Court

Monday 13th May

Members of the LCC Resilience Team : Emergency Response Group

Monday 10th June

Colin Balls : Brazilian Pantanal : Part 1 : Wetland area and wildlife

Monday 8 July

Colin Balls : Brazilian Pantanal : Part 2 : Wetland area and wildlife

Monday 12 Aug

Stuart Kirkman

Humorous and Bizarre sides of the Police Force

Monday 9th September 
Barbara Bidwell : Leyland in Bloom

Monday 14th October

Dr. Paul Salveson MBE : Walt Whitman's links with Lancashire

Monday 11th November

Ladies Invitation Lunch

Monday 9th December

AGM

2025

Monday 6th January

Stephen Doyle : POW in Changi - How my father spent War War II 

Monday 10th February

Steve William's : History of ROF Chorley

Monday 10th March

Chris Lowe : Understanding the war in Ukraine

Monday 14th April

John Garrett : Silver Hallmarks

Monday 19th May

Andrew Hobbs : Cultural History of Tripe

Monday 9th June

Derek Grimshaw: The History of Ballooning

Monday 14th July

John Hutchinson: The Man in Compartment Seven

Monday 11th August

Colin Balls: Sri Lanka by Rail (part 1)

Monday 8th September

Colin Balls: Sri Lanka by Rail (part 2)

Monday 13th October

Keith McIntosh: Sporting Memories

Monday 10th November

Ladies Lunch: No speaker. Special Occasion

Monday 8th December

AGM: No speaker. Business meeting