Through the Green Baize Door – A Life in Service

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

Bryan Thurlow presents Through the Green Baize Door - A Life In Service Bryan Thurlow, an East Anglian historian with a background in professional theatre, presents George Barrington, a retired butler of the Victorian and Edwardian era.

The Rest of Your Natural Life

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

Pip Wright presents The Rest of Your Natural Life Pip Wright tells stories of Suffolk Convicts, sentenced to transportation to Australia during the period 1787-1867. Find out not only what happened to them, but also to the families they left behind.

The Road to Novichok

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

Neil Dickinson presents The Road to Novichok - Nerve Agents - the deadliest substances known

Holiday – Yorkshire Dales

This year's holiday is in the Yorkshire Dales, details at a Wednesday meeting. Bookings & Deposits 11 October 2023!

The History of Beth Chatto Gardens

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

Julie Boulton, Chief Executive, presents The History of Beth Chatto Gardens

Excursion – Blickling Hall

A coach trip to Blickling hall, a National Trust house in Norfolk Blickling Hall is a Jacobean stately home situated in 5,000 acres of parkland in a loop of the River Bure, near the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England. The mansion was built on the ruins of a Tudor building for […]

The Harwich Turnpike Road

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

Philip Cunningham presents The Harwich Turnpike Road This talk tells the story of the Harwich turnpike road that ran the 72 miles between London and Harwich. This was one of the first turnpike roads and was introduced because of the strategic importance of Harwich both in terms of the military and trade.