Welcome to a new year of Grange Lecture Society’s TEN TALKS, which started in October 2024 and will end in March 2025. It is our 116th year, meeting as always at the Victoria Hall in Grange Town Centre. We gather at 7pm for a 7.15pm prompt start. We are holding our membership fee at £46 again for the season (with entry on the night for one-off Talks at £10).
The first of our Ten Talks, from the Cumbria Film Archive was much appreciated and got us off to a good start with nearly one hundred people attending. We enjoyed some film reels which have been converted from black and white to colour using new technology which really brings the scenes to life. We enjoyed aspects of tourism and industry from around the county including wonderful snapshots of factory workers heading for home at the end of a busy day and ladies and gents climbing the mountains in perhaps less than perfect outfits.
In our programme we will have speakers from the Royal Horticultural Society, the Lake District National Park and we will also learn how to set a world record cycling around the world on a tandem! Take a look at the programme page of the website for full details. We have two interesting talks for November. On the 12th Sue Jeeves celebrates the life of her famous father Stanley showing off his combined presentation of landscape photographs with music. Then on the 26th of November Hugh Ellwood gives us an in depth cultural and historical journey through the Celtic tribes of Ireland. Do please come along and bring a friend with you – a great idea for a birthday present. Give them an inexpensive evening out for a memory making gift that you both enjoy.
Membership of the Lecture Society for 2024 to 2025 looks to be very similar to last year but more are always welcome. Why not come along and help us on the committee it is a way of supporting your community: new ideas always welcome. Just three or four meetings a year – all over in 90 minutes. We now meet at Grange Institute in Main Street. If you have admin skills or promotional skills, they would be most welcome! Just making new friends is fun too.
At each talk, our treasurer will be on hand with his card reader and cash box to sign up new members. So, a great chance for you to sign up for the season, or buy a ticket as a gift for a friend.
I urge all our existing members to rejoin and preferably bring along friends and visitors to join with you. This century old society can give all who attend a way of brightening evenings through the winter months, taking you out to be sociable when it is all to easy to just sit by the TV.
We welcome your input into the programme – please email us or phone should you have a connection with a speaker who could enrich our future programmes.
Kind regards,
Peter Ratcliffe
