President's Handover and Barbeque
Sunday 30th June 2024
On a lovely Saturday afternoon at the end of June a good crowd of members and their partners met in Bruce and Katie's garden to celebrate the end of President Michael Wood's illustrious three years term of office and to welcome his successor, Jay Chaudhuri into that role.
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Bristol, Period Friendly City
Wednesday 5th June 2024
We were pleased to welcome Dany (sorry , surname lost) from the Period Friendly Cities Charity who gave a forthright talk on the problems of cost and accessabilty of period products to the under priveledged girls and women of the world. The charity is committed to helping alleviate these issues within cities of the UK starting with Bristol. He told us of the progress made and of their targets for the future frequently making comparisons between the free availability of toilet paper compared with the high cost of period products where they hoped to eventully get them provided free.
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Memorial Tree for David Liddiatt on Bristol Downs
Wednesday 15th May 2024
Following our weekly Wednesday lunch today a small party of members and guests proceeded to the Ladies Mile on the Bristol Downs. There, we assembled by the newly planted Lime tree set in honour of our dear friend, David Liddiatt, who passed away in March last year.
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The Portishead line will be a mighty fine line....one day!
Wednesday 15th May 2024
Rotarian Dennis Pendergast gave us an extremely interesting history of the Bristol to Portishead railway, how it all began with Isambard Kingdom Brunel wanting to add Portishead to his GWR network, (though dying before he completed the project). The line always struggled to become truly established as a passenger service and finally ended up carrying mineral freight. We are now hopeful that an approved expenditure of £160M will enable it to become part of an integralted modern train network which will help reduce road traffic in the Bristol area.
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Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society (CHIS) by Brian Worthington, Chairman
Wednesday 24th April 2024
We welcomed to lunch a person known to several of our members, a former Principal of Clifton College, Brian Worthington. He has been deeply involved in the development of Clifton and Hotwells for many years and fought long and hard to protect it from planners and developers who sought to infict on it the worst and to uterly destroy it's character.
His talk, based on the brief history of CHIS which follows, was avidly followed as many of our members live in the area discussed and expressed their gratitude to Brian for the CHIS group's efforts.