ELY AND DISTRICT

Club Contact:Michael Brisbourne (Phone: 01353 611144)
email: michaelbrisbourne@hotmail.com

Probus Ely are pleased to announce our schedule of meetings for 2025. We meet on the third Tuesday of each month from 10:00am (with tea/coffee) for 10:30am start in The New Hall at Ely Methodist Chapel 13-15 Chapel Street Ely CB6 1AD . From Chapel Street it is the side entrance or from town the gate in St Mary’s Car Park, this probably is the best way. New members are most welcome to attend and if you have any questions please contact the above ,

 

Our current list of Meetings January to December 2025

January 21st The Ely Computer Centre – Safety on Computers and Modern Phones. Windows not being supported after October 2025
February 18th Talk by Vaughan Wordingham on St Kilda, the Westernmost island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland
March 18th Talk byJim Nicolson on his uncle James Nicolson VC – the only member of Fighter Command to be awarded the VC during WW2
April 15th Mary’s Meals – Global Charity based in Scotland – feeding over 2.4m children in some of the world’s poorest countries
May 21st Talk – The Truth behind Colonel Bogey – did he really exist?
June 17th Talk by John Smith on The Thomas Parsons Charity
July 15th Talk by Phil Mitzman on Friends of Jubilee Gardens – its history,devlopement and maintenance of the Gardens
August  19th Talk by Mike Child on Cornelius Vermuyden – His Life and Times
September 16th Talk by Gary Powell on Landmark Cases in British Criminal History
October 21st Presentation by Chris Bishop – Dancing through the Years
November 18th Talk by Brian Watson on the history of the now disused railway from Kings Lynn to St Ives via Haddenham
December 16th Annual Christmas Luncheon – Location tba