Lunches
Events
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Monday Lunch
The Bat and Ball Centre The Bat and Ball Centre, Crampton's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, United KingdomChairman: David Williams Speaker: Jonathan Neame "Brewing in Kent". After a career as a Barrister at Law, Jonathan joined Shepherd Neame Brewery in 1991 and became CEO in 2003. He became Chairman of the British Beer and Pub Association and also non-executive director of the St. Austell Brewery Company. He was appointed Director of the [...]
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Monday Lunch
The Bat and Ball Centre The Bat and Ball Centre, Crampton's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, United KingdomChairman: Rob Harcourt Speaker: Dean Caston "Long to Reign over us ". Dean has established himself as one of Kent's leading speakers since he started giving talks 20 years ago. Dean is Chairman of the British Music Hall Society and is a performer and Director. He devised a show about the life and music of Rogers [...]
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Monday Lunch
The Bat and Ball Centre The Bat and Ball Centre, Crampton's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, United KingdomChairman: Nigel Jepps Speaker: Bob Sinfield "Blasts from the Past". Bob is an actor, author, presenter, and freelance writer. He has appeared at theatres and festivals from Edinburgh to Brighton and written scripts for some of the best comedy performers of the last four decades, including Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Rory Bremner, and Jasper Carrott. [...]
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Monday Lunch
The Bat and Ball Centre The Bat and Ball Centre, Crampton's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, United KingdomChairman: Speaker: Philip Waite "My Life as an RAF Policeman". Philip joined the RAF in August 1970 and, after different periods of training, served his first nine years at UK and German RAF stations in the rank of corporal. In 1979 he worked at the headquarters of the RAF Police in Wiltshire, only having two tours [...]
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Monday Lunch
Chairman: Eddie Hathaway Speaker: Nigel Nelson "Inside Westminster" Having been brought up living in Kent, Nigel won the National Schools Debating Competition which led to a career in journalism. He is the longest serving political editor in Britain having been in the role with the Mirror Group since 1986 and has known every Prime Minister [...]
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Monday Lunch
The Bat and Ball Centre The Bat and Ball Centre, Crampton's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, United KingdomChairman: Michael Richardson Speaker: Paul Robbins and his talk is entitled "East London, Cockney and Rhyming Slang". Paul Robbins is an experienced presenter, historian, and author with over 40 years of experience in public speaking. Paul makes each presentation unique by adapting content to each specific group. Indeed it is history with a difference, history [...]
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Monday Lunch
The Bat and Ball Centre The Bat and Ball Centre, Crampton's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, United KingdomChairman: Peter Carpenter Speaker: Ex. Det.Sup. Ian Brown whose talk is entitled "The Brinks Matt Robbery". Stop Press. Sadly Ian has had to withdraw for medical reasons so our last minute replacement is Martin Stoneham and his talk is entitled "The Victoria Cross". Our thanks go to him for being willing to step in at [...]
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Christmas Lunch
The Bat and Ball Centre The Bat and Ball Centre, Crampton's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, United KingdomChairman: Mike Pearsall Speaker: Lynton Jones, who many of you will know as our membership secretary, is speaking today on the topic of “Great People I almost knew”. As you will discover he met several “great” people and he will describe to you how he knew them. Lynton had two parts to his career. After [...]
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January Lunch
The Bat and Ball Centre The Bat and Ball Centre, Crampton's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, United KingdomChairman: Lynton Jones Speaker: Irena Fairless who has already given two talks to Probus Members in the past. The title of her talk is "The Extraordinary Life of Hermann Von Puckler-Muskau". Hermann was a German Prince, adventurer, fortune hunter, traveller, successful writer, and one of Germany's most renowned landscape gardeners. After having followed in his footsteps [...]
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February Lunch
The Bat and Ball Centre The Bat and Ball Centre, Crampton's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, United KingdomChairman: Michael Pearsall Speaker: Lord Sackville, the current resident at Knole House
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