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  • July 2026 - Earth's Natural Hazards

    This month’s session continued the Physical Geography theme, focusing on Natural Hazards as part of the current GCSE Geography course material or at least my understanding of it. The session opened with a short slide presentation defining Earth’s natural hazards, then exploring the risks they pose to people and the environment, finally a short introduction… Read more

  • July 2026 - A Warm Day Around Ullswater

    By the time our bus arrived outside the Three Horseshoes on Galgate prompt at 9am , excitement and anticipation were palpable, (as evidenced in this photograph). An hour later, including additional pick-ups at Bowes, we arrived at the Ferry Pier of Pooley Bridge.  It was clear the mood of the party was to take the cruise… Read more

  • July 2026 - Crosskeys Inn at Eppleby

    In July the lunch group returned to the Crosskeys Inn at Eppleby. We had pre ordered our meals with the most popular starter being the twice baked cheddar cheese and spinach souffle with homemade focaccia; this was delicious.  The chosen main courses included fillet of chalk stream trout, fish pie and rigatoni pasta with all being… Read more

  • July 2026 - More About Life on Earth

    Meetings on May 25th and June 22nd   In our May and June meetings, David Saville continued his exploration of life on Earth looking at the Permian and Triassic periods.  In the Permian (299 – 252 mya), the wet climate of the Carboniferous was slowly replaced by a land dominated environment. This saw the development of a… Read more

  • July 2026 - My Cousin Rachel

    This novel is set in Cornwall and Italy in 19th century and is a story of intrigue, suspense, naivety and romance, dishonesty, manipulation and punishment. Du Maurier, in the first chapter, skilfully unfolds the misery and mystery of our protagonist, Philip’s, forthcoming future. Philip is brought up in an all-male household by a kind but misogynistic… Read more

  • July 2026 - Spring Gardens Wetlands

    On a day that had threatened high temperatures Teesdale as usual was cloudy, so the temperature was tolerable for a walk. Eleven of us met outside the Manor House hotel in West Auckland for a four-mile walk. This was unfamiliar territory for most of us, so we were intrigued to discover the route.  Starting through… Read more

  • July 2026 - Keeping Cool at Night

    This month, as we sweltered in the heat, we shared our ideas for ways of keeping cool at night. Thirty degree days with high humidity can feel really uncomfortable in the North Pennines and few buildings are adapted to keep hot air out in summer.  In countries with a longer history of extreme heat, residents organise… Read more

  • July 2026 - Getting Started with British Army Records

    Alan Swindale The group watched a presentation from the 2024 RootsTech “Getting Started with British Army Records” by Raymon Nesbitt of Family Search. British Army records commence in 1660 and indexed records can be searched on-line on FamilySearch, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Raymon Nesbitt introduced the various collections and how to access them. He admitted that… Read more

  • July 2026 - An Excursion in Two Parts

    In July the photography group excursion was in two parts.  In the morning a group of nine visited Hopetown in Darlington to explore the museum created there to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.  We found an interesting variety of subjects to photograph, with the added challenge of working around a… Read more

  • June 2026 - Dodging and Weaving

    June’s meeting was our usual relaxed affair, wimmin ploshing about joyfully, dodging and weaving occasionally to avoid the diagonal swimmers, the backstrokers, those swimmers that if they were boulders would be called erratics. I think I may be one of those erratics… Meanwhile at Ripon Racecourse, where there is a lake as well as a… Read more