Meeting: "The UAE Revisited"
2026-06-03 14:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
The one and only Lothar Trinogga will be speaking to us about his experiences when he worked in the UAE

Meeting: "Farming in the Yorkshire Dales"
2026-06-17 14:00 - 16:30 | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
Christine Ryder is a farmer’s wife from the Blubberhouses area and will be talking about their farming enterprise along with some of her other activities

Meeting: "Harrogate to the Himalayas by Bike"
2026-07-01 14:00 - 16:30 | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
Thorsten Bruce recently cycled from Harrogate to Nepal to raise money for Nepalese school that he supports. It should be a fascinating talk.

Meeting: "The Land of the Rising Sun"
2026-07-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
Mel Reid will be sharing some of his memories of Japan with us.

Meeting: "The Austerity Years - 1945 - 1951"
2026-08-05 14:00 - 16:30 | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
David Davies will return to talk about the immediate post-WW2 years, when life was still hard and rationing still in place. I can (just) remember going with my mother to collect new ration coupons, and I’m sure that many of you will remember the same period

Committee Meeting
2026-09-02 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
The next Committee meeting will be held by Zoom on Wednesday, 2nd September. The agenda and other details will be distributed in due course

Meeting: "The Life of an Artist" (Rescheduled)
2026-09-02 14:00 - 16:30 | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
Andy Beck is a Lake District based artist who specialises in painting Lakeland scenes. He particularly known for his sumptuous book “The Wainwrights in Colour” which displays his paintings of the many scenes drawn by Alfred Wainwright in his classic fell walking books.
This talk has been rescheduled from its originally-planned date of 20th May

Meeting: "A History of the Pub"
2026-09-16 14:00 - 16:30 | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
Paul Jennings will speak to us about the history of one of many people’s favourite institutions

Meeting: "The Mille Miglia"
2026-10-07 14:00 - 16:30 | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
Peter Hepworth, a classic car and motor racing enthusiast, will be telling us about the history of the historic Italian road race, the Mille Miglia, which originally ran from 1927 to 1957 and has since been resurrected in a a different format

Meeting: "The History of Chocolate"
2026-10-21 14:00 - 16:30 | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
Sarah Goodwill will be talking to us about chocolate – probably no free samples, I’m afraid!

Meeting: "Project Emily"
2026-11-04 14:00 - 16:30 | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
Malcolm Brooke returns to tell us about Project Emily: the RAF’s deployment of Thor missiles with US warheads in the 60s

Meeting: "Reach for the Sky - the Realisation of a Boyhood Dream"
2026-11-18 14:00 - 16:30 | Oatlands, 1 Coronation Grove, Harrogate, HG2 8BU, United Kingdom
Stuart Jennings will make at least some of us jealous with his tale of how he managed to organise flights in two-seater versions of the legendary Hurricane and Spitfire
