Luncheons and Speakers
2023
The Probus Club of Yeovil meets at The Quicksilver Mail pub, Hendford Hill, Yeovil BA20 2RG – normally on the second Monday of each month (except when this coincides with a bank holiday).
2023 SPEAKERS
| 8th January | My life on the bench – tales of a retired magistrate | John Darwood |
| 12th February | Joseph to Goliath – Westlands’ Giant Helicopter Project – Plans to build a giant helicopter in 1952 powered rotor tip mounted pulse jets. | Joseph Lewis |
| 11th March | Musical Musings– Miranda will relate her observations on shipwrecks, stalkers, spring cleaning, horrors of holidays, punting and many other things interspersed by song | Miranda Pender |
| 8th April | Speedway – Riding sideways – the history, the bikes and the adrelanlin fuelled meeings | Richard Hutley |
| 13th May | The Jurrasic Coast fronm the Sea – a journey in stunning photographs of this spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Site | Steve Belasco |
| 10th June | Custer’s Last Stand – an account of General Custer’s disastarous last stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and its legacy | James Porter |
| 8th July | Royal Shenanigans in the Gergian Era – an insight into the promiscuous Georgians and their Royal Court. | Mike Rendell |
| 12th August | Legion VIII – The Lost Legion – The evidence, fiction and fables surrounding the dissapearance of this Roman legion, probably in northern Britain. | John Smith |
| 9th September | Nursery Rymes – the Hidden History – How some of theseare based on real persons or historical events and some are much older than they seem. | Brian Wright |
| 14th October | Sir Isaac Newton – the life and works of this atronomer, physcist and engineer | Bud Budzyenski |
| 11th November | AGM | |
| 9th December | Raising the Standard – Flags of the World – a history of flags and banners, concentrationg on national and maritme aspects, including the Union Jack and Stars & Stripes | Lt Col Dick Taylor |