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'Canary Girls' The Forgotten Heroines of Two World Wars

PAST Speaker Events

2024

June

Thursday 13th - Romaldkirk WI, Cotherstone Village Hall, Durham - 2pm

Tuesday 18th - Rutland & Bouth WI Oxen Park Reading Rooms - 7.30pm

Thursday 20th - Harrogate Library Harrogate North Yorkshire - 3pm

 

August

Tuesday 20th - Thoralby & District WI, Thoralby Village Hall, North Yorkshire - 7.30pm

September

Wednesday 4th - Weymouth WI, Dorset - 7.30pm

Wednesday 18th - Coverdale WI, Carlton-in-Coverdale, North Yorkshire  - 7.30pm

October

Tuesday 15th -   Chipping Local History Society, St Mary's Church Hall, Chipping, Lancashire - 7.30pm

Friday 18th - Field Naturalist Club Community Centre, Barrow-in-Furness - 2pm

2025

January

Monday 20th - Natland Monday Club, Natland, Cumbria - 2pm

Tuesday 11th - Chelmondiston WI, Chelmondiston Village Hall, Suffolk - 7pm

February

Saturday 1st - LUKE National Trust, Morecambe - 2pm

Tuesday 11th - Chelmondiston WI, Chelmondiston Village Hall, Suffolk - 7pm

March

Wednesday 12th - Bentley WI. Bentley Village Hall, Suffolk - 7.30pm

Tuesday 18th - Grange lecture society Victoria Hall Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria​

April

Tuesday 8th - Thirsk U3a, Sowerby Parochial Hall, North Yorkshire - 10m

Tuesday 8th - Felixstowe Library. Felixstowe, Suffolk - 2pm

Tuesday 8th - Wickham St Pauls WI, Colchester, Essex - 7pm

Tuesday 15th - Easingwold & District U3a, Easingwold Baptist Church Hall, North Yorkshire - 2pm

Wednesday 16th - Over 55s History Group, Lancaster Friendship Centre, Lancashire - 10.45am

May

Thursday 8th - Hollesley WI, Hollesley Village Hall, Suffolk - 7pm

Friday 9th - Bramton WI, Huntingdon, Cambridge - 2pm

Tuesday 13th -  Ulpha & Seathwaite WI, Cumbria - 7.30pm

Wednesday 14th - Kendal Trefoil Group, Cumbria - Evening

Thursday 29th - Languard Rotary Club, Suffolk - at 7pm

June

Wednesday 4th - Holker WI, Cumbria - at 2pm

Thursday 19th - Warton Crag WI, Lancashire - at 7.30pm

July

Wednesday 2nd - Broughton Mills, Woodland & Foxfield WI, Cumbria - at 7.30pm
Tuesday 8th - Witherslack WI, Cumbria - at 7.30pm

September

Tuesday 9th - Furness U3a, Coronation Hall, Ulverston Cumbria - at 10.15am

Tuesday 9th - Tuddenham WI, Tuddenham, Village Hall, Suffolk - at 7.30pm

Wednesday 10th - Felsted WI, Felsted Village Hall, Dunmow, Essex - at 7.30pm

Monday 14th - Rookery Bowling Club, Stowmarket - at 10am

Monday 15th - Stowmarket Early Birds, Suffolk, venue tbc - at 10am

Tuesday 23rd - Felixstowe Society, Salvation Army Hall, Felixstowe, Suffolk - at 7pm

Wednesday 24th - Upper Wensleydale Ladies Lunch Club, Street Head Inn, Bishopdale, Yorkshire - at 12pm

October

Monday 6th - Durham Soroptimists, Ramside Hall, Durham - at 7.30pm

Wednesday 8th - Storth WI, Cumbria - at 7.30pm

Wednesday 8th - Royal British Legion, Stowmarket - at 7pm

Thursday 16th - Colby WI, Cumbria - at 2pm
Thursday 30th - Preston Probus Club, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire - at 10am

Friday 31st - Elm Tree and Fairfield WI, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham - at 2pm

November

Thursday 6th - Stavely WI, Village Institute, Cumbria - at 7.15pm

Monday 10th - Newall Ladies Fellowship Group, Otley Parish Church Hall, West Yorkshire - at 2pm

Friday 21st - Ladies Club Martlesham Heath, Suffolk - at 2pm

 

2026

February

Tuesday 3rd - Tuesday Group, United Reform Church, Bowerham, Lancaster - at 7.30pm

Thursday 5th - Felixstowe Inner Wheel, Orwell Hotel, Felixstowe - at 7pm

Wednesday 12th - Yealand WI, Yealand Redmayne Village Hall - at 7.30pm

Thursday 19th - Trimley Wives Memorial Hall, Trimley - at 7pm

​Tuesday Feb 24th - Great Sampford WI, Baptist Church, High Rd, Great Sampford. Suffolk - at 2pm

Why not book a talk for your club, association or society!

Speakers available to give presentations to most types of clubs and societies in the Suffolk and Essex area as well as Cumbria, Lancashire, the North East and other parts of the Country. 

 

​              Just get in touch by Email:

Sandra   via    sanddot51k@gmail.com             for Suffolk and Essex

Val          via   valerie.welti@btinternet.com    for Cumbria and the North

Peta        via   peta.edwards@outlook.com       for Lancashire

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