Todays speakers were all club members, who performed admirably.
First was Roy Maitland who told us of his national service in the RAF where he trained as a radar technician and then instructor before re-training as an air navigator where a sweaty Polish pilot tried to kill him by retracting the undercarriage of his Shackleton before it left the runway.
Then came David Booth who compared the life of people born pre 1940 with those of a later era, when crumpet was something consumed with a cup of tea and sheltered accommodation was the local bus stop.
Alan Starkey told us of one of his hobbies, Leather carving which created a 3D effect on specially cured leather using a swivel knife with which skilled users could cut a full circle with one deft movement. He brought along some examples of his work and earned much praise and interest.
Next was Cyril Legg who re-lived his marathon walk from Meltham to Ben Nevis. He used the West Highland Way which had been built to suppress the Jacobite tribes, past Lock Lomond where he tramped over huge tree roots for 13 miles and met a man walking from John O'Groats to Land's End with a large jar of Vaseline! He passed Glencoe and Fort William before ascending Ben Nevis twice.