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Yehudi Menuhin School 26th March 2024
At our meeting held on the 26th March, the headmaster of the Yehudi Menuhin School at Stoke d’Abernon, Robin Harskin, gave a really good insight into the amazing talent and culture at the school that produces world class musicians,.
” Today’s school provides a holistic education for 86 exceptional students aged from 8 to 19, with specialist tuition on the stringed instruments, piano and classical guitar. Our students split their time between their academic and musical studies, and are given many opportunities to perform in front of an audience. Concerts take place regularly in our own Menuhin Hall, but also in local schools, care homes and churches, carrying on Menuhin’s belief in the importance of giving back to the community.”
https://www.menuhinschool.co.uk
After the New Year’s Eve festivities some of our more hardy members and their partners were up on New Year’s Day and enjoyed a brisk, albeit windy, walk over Puttenham Common and then on to enjoy hot soup and a bacon bun courtesy of our member Mike W.
Gosden House Gardening
Members of XRT were pleased to be able to help Rotary in Guildford at the monthly gardening morning held on a Saturday 24th June 10-12:00am.
See Diary for future Monthly gardening mornings
XRT Xmas Dinner 13 December 2022 at WSGC
A very pleasant and jovial evening was had by all at the West Surrey Golf Club
XRT 60th Anniversary Lunch
On the 8th October XRT had their 60th Anniversary lunch together with Guildford Round Table’s Old Boys Reunion
The event was well attended with over 50 members and guests enjoying a glorious sunny afternoon with much joviality and fellowship.
For the full Photo Gallery Click Here
Posted onEdit”Petanque with Cranleigh 41 Club”
Petanque with Cranleigh 41 Club
On the 14 June 2022 some 17 members of Guildford XRT Club played Petanque against Cranleigh 41 Club
We are please to report that Guildford won overall and reclaimed the trophy from Cranleigh.
Posted onEdit”Zoom Speaker Meeting 24th January 2022″
Zoom Speaker Meeting 24th January 2022
Having raised for the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice some £570 to date from our Christmas Quiz Sam West and Jenny gave us an inspiring talk on the history and present activities of the Hospice.
Further details can be found at https://www.pth.org.uk/about-us/
Posted onEdit”First Face to Face Speaker Meeting 27th July 2021″
First Face to Face Speaker Meeting 27th July 2021
Tuesday marked the return to face to face meeting at Worplesdon Golf Club after over a year of Zoom meetings. It felt quite strange at first but we were soon back into the swing of banter and socialising.
Our first ‘Live’ speaker of the year was Sally Grammel talking to us about Chaperoning Child Actors on film sets and stage.
Posted onEdit”Zoom Speaker Meeting 22nd June 2021″
Zoom Speaker Meeting 22nd June 2021
Lorraine Spindler gave a fascinating talk on the -The Bloomsbury Group who were a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. This loose collective of friends and relatives was closely associated with the University of Cambridge for the men and King’s College London for the women, and they lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsbury, London. According to Ian Ousby, “although its members denied being a group in any formal sense, they were united by an abiding belief in the importance of the arts.”Their works and outlook deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality. A well-known quote, attributed to Dorothy Parker, is “they lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles”.
Posted onEdit”Zoom Speaker Meeting 8 June 2021″
Zoom Speaker Meeting 8 June 2021
How did a young man convicted of burglary and sentenced to hang at the Old Bailey in 1816 come to be appointed as one of the first school masters in New South Wales a little over two years later? This is the remarkable story of William Pashington Terry Gow, who arrived at Sydney Cove on the convict ship Morley in April 1817 – and the timely coincidence of his transportation with the governorship of the nascent British . As told by Stephen Gow his Gt Gt Gt Grandson.
Recent Posts
- Yehudi Menuhin School 26th March 2024
- Happy New Year
- Gosden House Gardening
- XRT Xmas Dinner 13 December 2022 at WSGC
- XRT 60th Anniversary Lunch
News
Zoom Speaker Meeting 11th May 2021
Dr Henry Goodall of FENFA gave a fascinating talk on the exploits of the SOE during WWII with particular reference to the part played by the pilots and airfields operating from the New Forest and the South Coast
Zoom Speaker Meeting 27th April
Bob Sinfield spent 25 years scripting every star on the box, from Lenny Henry and Maureen Lipman to Tracey Ullman and Rory Bremner. He told us all about the life of a jobbing jokesmith and the celebs he tried to ‘gag’.
Pub of the Month 21st April 2021
Our 1st Pub of The Month for over a year of lockdown was held at the Queen’s Head East Clandon. This was the first opportunity for the Chairman, Simon, to handover the Vice Chairman’s Jewel to Philip. Only eleven months late !!
Zoom Speaker meeting 13th April 2021
UK Heritage Railways: talk by Major Paul Whittle was enlightening and fascinating.
Who Knew there were so many steam railways in the UK and around the world ?
Speaker Zoom Meeting 23rd March 2021
Colin Brown of the RNLI gave an awe-inspiring talk on the work and mechanism of the RNLI .
Through the work of its volunteer force it now covers not only those in peril at sea, but also our main rivers, and shoreline rescue off beaches.
Speaker Zoom Meeting 9th March
Interesting talk given by Jim Cook on ‘Canine Partners’
Speaker Zoom Meeting 23rd Feb 2021
Martin Lutyens gave an interesting talk on his Gt Gt Uncle’s work
Speaker Meeting 9th February 2021
An interesting Zoom meeting was held for the members by ‘Surrey Choices’.
‘Surrey Choices’ provide a range of support services which are dedicated to improving the independence, confidence and life skills of disabled people, autistic people and those with other support needs, what ever their age, in the local community.
More information can be found at https://www.surreychoices.com/
Speaker Meeting 12th January 2021
At our first meeting of the New Year Dr Tim Hurley gave a fascinating Zoom talk on The Magistrates’ Court & the role they play
Grandma Flew Spitfires
On the 24th November we were lucky to have John Webster, the Secretary of the ATA Association, give a very interesting Zoom talk, to a large contingent of Club Members, on the Air Transport Auxiliary.
Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), founded at the outbreak of World War II, was a civilian organization which made an enormous contribution to victory by taking over from service pilots the task of ferrying RAF and RN warplanes between factories, maintenance units and front-line squadrons. During the war, 1250 men and women from 25 countries ferried a total of 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types, without radios, with no instrument flying instruction and at the mercy of the British weather. Often they were presented with a type of plane they had never seen before.
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Recent Posts
- Yehudi Menuhin School 26th March 2024
- Happy New Year
- Gosden House Gardening
- XRT Xmas Dinner 13 December 2022 at WSGC
- XRT 60th Anniversary Lunch
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Posted onEdit”Zoom Meeting 10th November 2020″
Zoom Meeting 10th November 2020
A fascinating talk was given by Michael Holden relating to his 2015 trip to the Base Camp of Everest as a fund raiser for the Charity ” Railway Children”
A short video of his trip can be seen Here
Posted onEdit”Speaker Meeting 26th May”
Speaker Meeting 26th May
A successful Zoom meeting was held with the speaker giving an in depth talk on the worrying concern of bacteria’s growing Antibiotic resistance
Posted onEdit”AGM”
AGM
XRT had 35 participants to their first Zoom AGM meeting held on the 28th April.
Post meeting an eVote approved the appointment of new Chairman Simon and his team for 2020-2021.
Posted onEdit”Donation to Parkinson’s UK”
Donation to Parkinson’s UK
Posted onEdit”Father Christmas”
Father Christmas
Coming to Boxgrove and Burpham areas on the 14th & 15th December
See our Diary for more details. Click Here
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