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A summary of next months guest speaker

Thursday 28th March 2024 Tim Perkins on ‘Midshires Search and Rescue’.

Tim is the Midshires Search and Rescue's Membership Officer, new members co-ordinator and qualified operational search technician. He has been involved in many searches across Herts and Beds for missing persons who are despondent, in mental health crisis, those living with dementia, who have gone walkabout and missing children.

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Andrew Baker April 25th 2024 Andrew Baker ‘Nelson Mandela, the triumph of warmth, humanity, generosity.’
Andrew is a fluent, engaging and entertaining speaker with a particular interest in social, cultural and political change since the First World War. He is a regular and highly acclaimed cruise ship lecturer and also gives lectures and presentations to a range of groups and societies. Audiences invariably comment on the warmth, clarity and accessibility of his presentations.

Andrew taught in Grammar Schools for over 40 years and is the author of a best-selling book on Contemporary British Politics. Drawing on his experience of over 22 years as Headmaster of Westcliff High School for Boys, he recently published a further volume on Education and the Pursuit of Values: A Headmaster’s Reflections. He now works as a freelance lecturer and education consultant.

Andrew gives his audiences insights into the times through which they have lived and he has a sharp eye for detail and anecdote. His incisive character portraits of many very different men and women at home and abroad whose extra ordinary lives have shaped today’s world, are uniformly vivid and compelling. He looks, as well, the huge social, cultural and attitudinal changes which have forged today’s world.

Audiences require no prior knowledge to find these presentations both moving and unforgettable. There are opportunities here to sit back, reflect, reminisce, remember, laugh and see our own times more clearly.

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Chris Foster May 23rd 2024 Chris Foster ‘On the Beat in Kings Cross’ THEY were tough streets, full of vice and violence. But despite the dangers lurking round, Bobby on the Beat PC Chris Foster loved his time patrolling King’s Cross, Holborn and Hatton Garden so much that when he hung up his handcuffs he retrained as a tour guide to share the stories of the historic neighbourhoods he got to know so well.

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Chris Truran June 27th 2024 Chris Truran ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Old Bailey’. He joined the Metropolitan Police on 6th March 1975. I trained as a Scenes of Crimes Officer (SOCO). I worked in central, north and north west London. During my 38½ years I examined over 25,000 crime scenes ranging from Shop-lifting to Murder. When I started examining crime scenes DNA was in its embryonic stage.