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Caversham Heights Society
12/09/22
THE next meeting of Caversham Heights Society will be held at Caversham Heights Methodist Church Hall in Highmoor Road, Caversham, on September 21. This will features a talk on the history of Reading Football Club. An interesting programme of talks ...
16/12/19
THE Caversham Heights Society held three events during November, two lectures and a theatre trip. On November 6 members were exposed to some history that most of us were ignorant about, namely the contribution of Indian soldiers during the First ...
19/11/18
THERE has been only one meeting of the society since the talk about “The work of Launchpad and the homeless in Reading” at the beginning of last month. This was on Wednesday, October 17 when Gp Capt Paterson, who had only recently retired from ...
07/05/18
APRIL marked the end of this season’s formal lectures for the society with two fascinating talks. These were all the better because a new sound system made everything so much clearer. The first talk, entitled “Treasure beneath our feet”, was ...
17/06/19
BETWEEN May 20 and 24 52 members and friends of the society joined the annual mini-holiday coach tour, which this year was to Kent. The a ccommodation was in the comfortable Ashford International Hotel, which was centrally convenient. On ...
30/05/22
THE final meeting of Caversham Heights Society before the summer break featured a talk by Bob Welch entitled “Toys along the A4”. When Bob started studying the subject, he was surprised to discover how many businesses involved in the ...
11/02/19
THERE was only one evening talk for the society during January. This was a very topical talk on “The Digital Society: danger, disruption and opportunity” given by Nick Jones, former head of digital communications at No 10 Downing ...
02/04/18
THE society hosted three very different events during March. On March 7, Dr Georgina Dodd spoke about her doctoral research with a talk entitled “How components of diet affect cognitive decline”. She pointed out that from our ...
12/03/18
THERE was only one meeting of the society during February which, appropriately enough, was a talk on “100 years of Reading weather”. Despite the bitterly cold weather, there was a good turnout to hear Dr Stephen Burt, from ...
03/04/17
MEMBERS heard talks on two very different topics during March. The first talk, on March 1, was by Dr Robert Taynton, a retired GP and chairman of the charity responsible for the building and oversight of the West ...
12/02/18
ON January 17 Catherine Sampson enthralled members with a fascinating and informative talk on Purley from the 1800s to the 1960s. Her talk was illustrated with sepia photographs and postcards selected from more ...
15/10/18
THE first few weeks of the society’s 42nd season have been full and encouraging. The first meeting on September 5 began with the annual meeting and election of the committee. All members were re-elected with ...
25/09/23
IF you are looking for societies, social clubs or other activities, we could be your choice. The society was founded as an historical lecture society in 1975 and we have an active membership with an ...
11/06/18
IN the third week of May nearly 40 members and friends of the society went to the Peak District for their annual mini-holiday. John and Linda Dudley had organised everything, including an excellent ...
29/01/24
ON the bitterly cold night of January 17, Caversham Heights Society met once again. Unfortunately, the speaker had succumbed to covid, so John Brearley agreed to talk to us, this time about “The ...
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