Spring 2025

Jan  9   Graham Soult         Britain’s Hidden Shop Signs
    16   Kate Scott           Andy Warhol - But is it Art?
    23   Dr Cliff Lawrence    Sunshine and the Skin
    30   Christine Kenworthy  Doors Closing – A Story of Secrets and New Beginnings
Feb  6   Chris Goulding       From Tyneside to Tsushima
                              - The Story of John Meade Falkner
                              - the Poet who Built Battleships
    13   Damien Hall          A talk on French - TBC
    20   Annual General Meeting, and a short talk by
           Prof Wilson Horne  "The Food of The Gods"
    27   Ken Smith            North East Miners' Banners
Mar  6   Barbara Hall         How safe is your Garden? The Poison Garden at Alnwick
    13   David Saunders       Newcastle's Other Russian Novelist
    20   Alan Reed            Art of Prison
    27   Kim Bibby-Wilson     Northumbrian Dialects
Apr  3   Geoff Hughes         Strange Tales and Ghostly Happenings in Northumbria
    10   Charles Linaker      An Informal History of Income Tax