A French love affair of over 30 years

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

With Cherry Mullins The tale of how one woman’s love affair developed and grew, living and working in France. Told through slides and laced with stories of encounters with French men and women and her passion for everything French.

La Veuve Clicquot

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

La Veuve Clicquot: The woman behind the wines by Paula Short

Living with the Paranormal

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

New: Living with the Paranormal with Judith Hood I was 14 when I saw my first spirit as a full apparition or so I thought; recently I have discovered it was happening even earlier than that.  Throughout my life I have experienced things which are generally considered to be paranormal.  It has been ten years […]

The 1953 floods – 70 years on

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

Exactly 70 years after the East Coast Flood, Historian David Whittle looks at the devastating event.

Two Suffolk Artists

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

TWO SUFFOLK ARTISTS Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable With Mark Mitchels Throughout the world the work of these two artists offers a view of England which is still largely unchallenged. Their paintings adorn the walls of the world’s finest galleries, but they also are instantly familiar to us through a host of reproductions. For generations […]

We’ll Meet Again

United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

We welcome Bryan Thurlow giving his talk "We'll Meet Again", postponed from January 2023 Billy Jackson, a pearly king from Bethnal Green, vividly describes what life was like when he and his sister were evacuated to an East Anglian farm at the outbreak of WW2 and the horrors of the blitz in London. A 45 […]