Here are details of the forthcoming Westerham Society events in 2010:

Saturday 30th January “The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team” by Mike Ling
Westerham Hall 7pm.

Red Arrows pilot Mike Ling will talk about the role of the Red Arrows aerobatic team, its history, the current team and its responsibilities. He will also explain about the Hawk aircraft used, formation flying and the team’s display programme and overseas duties.

Mike joined the Biggin Hill Squadron Air Training Corps before receiving a Royal Air Force Flying Scholarship. His dream of flying with the Red Arrows began when he saw the team perform at the Biggin Hill Air Fair. He has served on Quick Reaction Alert duties and trained in the UK, Belgium, Denmark and India. Mike flew the Tornado F3 before joining the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team. Lingy, as he is known, is extremely proud to have become Synchro Leader in his third and final year with the team.

Friday 12th February “ORBIS: What makes us different” by Karen Jaques
Westerham Hall, 8pm.

ORBIS is an international organisation dedicated to blindness prevention through ophthalmic teaching and training in developing countries. It uses a unique flying eye hospital, housed inside a state of the art DC-10 aircraft, to help it achieve its aims.

Karen Jaques qualified first as a nurse before completing a degree in geography and history at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She later completed an MA at Exeter University.  Karen has worked for ORBIS in Hong Kong and now in London. Her lecture will give us an insight into the organisation and its medical programmes.

Friday 12th March “K9 – who’s taking who for a walk” by Tony Casserly
Westerham Hall, 8pm.
The Westerham Society AGM will be held at 7.30pm prior to this lecture.

Tony Casserly will give a brief insight into dog training, advice and tips on how to get the best out of a canine companion.

Tony Casserly has been involved in the gundog and shooting world for almost 50 years. He has trained, handled, bred and worked gundogs in the shooting field, in Field Trials, and Gundog Working Tests since the early 1960s. He has been judging the same for over 35 years both in the UK and in Europe and America. He is an Accredited Kennel Club Breeder of labradors and a full member of the British Institute of Professional Dog Trainers, an ‘A’ assessor with the recently formed Gundog Club UK and the senior member of the Panel of Advisors for that Club. Now retired from Kent Police, he runs gundog training and breeding kennels in Westerham.

 Sunday 25th April – St. George’s Day Breakfast at the George and Dragon
Westerham 9.30 - 11pm.

You are invited to our fifth St. George’s Day great English Breakfast. Members, children and guests are invited to sit down to a celebratory feast of Bucks Fizz, a full cooked English Breakfast, poetry and Morris dancing, all for £10. If you are attending church, you will have time to eat your breakfast before heading on your way. Please note that this is a popular event with limited seating and attendance is on a first come, first served basis upon receipt of a booking form and payment. Please use the form in the January Newsletter and return it by the 13th April. Remember to fly your St. George’s flag on the 23rd!

Friday 11th June, Westerham Hall – Lecture “Issos in the Iron Age” by Dr. Tamar Hodos
Westerham Hall, 8pm.

Issos is best known as the location of the second major battle that Alexander the Great had against the Persian emperor Darius, in 333 BCE, but there was a settlement on that battlefield plain that had a long history of occupation. Today, the site is known as Kinet-Hoyuk and Dr. Tamar Hodos has spent 15 seasons there excavating the pre-Alexander levels. Her talk will look at how we use archaeology in conjunction with literary references to understand how people lived in the past, focusing particularly on the Iron Age period of Kinet's extensive occupation.

Dr. Hodos is a senior lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Bristol. She has a BA in Classical Studies from Bryn Mawr College (USA), an MA in Classical Archaeology from University College London and a DPhil in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford. She has held lecturing roles at British universities for several years; she joined Bristol University in 2000 and became a senior lecturer there in 2006. Her research focuses on the archaeology of the Mediterranean during the Iron Age.

The Westerham Society Diary for 2010 in brief.

Unless stated to the contrary, all meetings are free for members and £2 for guests and will be held at 7.30pm for 8pm in Westerham Hall, Quebec Avenue, Westerham. Visitors are most welcome.

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