Our Meetings

Details and Diary

By Tricia Leonard

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all! Hope to see you all at the new start to our season of talks, chats and interactive sessions this year - which as most of you may know is the year we celebrate our 10th anniversary.

Meetings are 2-4pm on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at The Valley Social Centre in Whitehawk Way, BN2 5HE.

Many of us arrive early for a lovely, chatty lunch first in the tasty cafe on the ground floor.

A list of speakers for the rest of the year 2013 will be added as we get confirmations. We would love to see some new faces joining us.

FEBRUARY 11TH

This is your chance to share stories of your working life with the group. Some members have prepared their stories already for this meeting, but there will be opportunities for others to chip in along the way.

We shall also be chatting more about plans for our 10th Birthday celebrations on 13th March and events planned for later in the year too.

MARCH 13TH.

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER 

It is 10years since we started Bygones - so we will celebrate today with cake and chatter. This will be a members only meeting. 

Joining us is Geoff Mead to give a talk about inter-war housing entitled "Scattered Squalor and Downland Homes"

APRIL 10TH

Geoff's talk, above, will now be during the first half of this meeting, open to all.

After tea break will be members only as it is our AGM.  We would like as many members as possible here to give their voice - what do you want the club to do?(due to illness our AGM will now be held in May)

MAY 8TH

This will now be the space for our AGM.

After tea break will be a very different format to our usual. We will be collaborating with Cultures Club for an intergenerational meeting.  Becky and Ned will bring some youngsters along to share stories of life 'then and now' with our group.

AUGUST 14TH

Judith Kinnison-Bourke will join us again for one of her dramatic stories from The Workhouse this time.  The title is "The Workhouse and the Weald"  This covers the years 1905 - 1926 at Tenterton Union Workhouse and the life of Dorothy Drury.