One of the attractions of Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill Probus Club is the amazing variety of events we hold to entertain, inform and educate our members. We organise outings to many different places of interest and every Tuesday we welcome speakers who cover a wide range of diverse subjects. We started our programme of weekly… [Continue Reading]
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Probus Club – looking back… and going forward
Now that we have entered an exciting New Year it is perhaps time for Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill Probus Club to reflect on our activities and events of 2019 but also as a forward looking organisation, to anticipate what we might have in store for our Club in 2020. One of our favourite speakers, Dr… [Continue Reading]
PTSD – a personal experience at Probus Club
When John Macartney gave a talk to Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill Probus Club in April 2019 it was a very interesting and sometimes amusing description of his life as a senior executive at British Leyland in the 60’s and 70’s. John returned recently to talk about a totally different subject matter – his personal experiences… [Continue Reading]
Domestic violence at Probus Club?
Probus Club of Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill had an extremely hard-hitting and at times harrrowing talk on the subject of domestic abuse presented by Heather Downer who is the manager of Gloucestershire Domestic Abuse Support Service (GDASS). Heather talked in striking detail about the level of domestic abuse her department has to deal with on… [Continue Reading]
Probus hears about SS Great Britain
Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill Probus Club have had some exceptional speakers lately, one of which was Ian Caskie who told us of the history of Brunel’s great ship, the SS Great Britain. SS Great Britain was the second of his three great ships and in the design and building of the vessel, Brunel successfully combined… [Continue Reading]
Probus Faces the Home Front and Lessons of War
Probus meetings are always interesting and we recently ventured into two contrasting and challenging subjects that provided new understandings and insight. On 3rd September, at an open meeting with members and wives, Megan Farmer, an experienced foster carer, explained how she took on a life with her own and other people’s children. Megan balanced care… [Continue Reading]
Visit to BBC Studios
In August, Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill Probus Club organised one of our regular coach trips, this time to the BBC studios at the Mailbox in the centre of Birmingham. We were welcomed by our guides, Sue and Gary and as the tour progressed it was clear that not only were they extremely knowledgeable about the… [Continue Reading]
Serious business at Probus Club
Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill Probus Club meets every Tuesday morning and usually we are entertained and educated by a great variety of speakers who talk to us on very wide range of subjects. Occasionally we enjoy outings to places of interest such as our memorable visit to the Severn Trent sewage treatment plant two years… [Continue Reading]
Probus visits the Welsh Assembly and the Royal Mint
Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill Probus Club recently embarked on one of our occasional outings, this time a coach trip to the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff. After we arrived and having endured very strict airport-style security, we were introduced to the Assembly building by our guide Richard Wyn Jones who told us about the history of… [Continue Reading]
Was British Leyland doomed to fail? Probus Club finds out
In April 2019 members of Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill Probus Club were entertained by John Macartney, a retired executive of the now-defunct British Leyland Motor Corporation which was brought into being in the late 1960’s. Most people remember BL as the producer of many interesting and sometimes innovative car designs but unfortunately many also remember… [Continue Reading]