Club contact: Stanley Pearson, Hon. Secretary – Email here
Web page: John Hill – Email here
The club’s COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR 2026-7 are:
Chairman: Philip Aindow
Vice Chairman: Neill Hargreaves
Hon. Secretary: Stanley Pearson
Hon. Treasurer: Alan Barker
Social Secretary: Pam Barrett
Luncheon Secretary: Patricia Widdall
Almoner: Pam Barrett
Speaker Finder: Paul Hargreaves
Elected members: Joe Cole, Charles Egarr, James Jackson
Ex-officio: Paul Hargreaves
Most of our members live in Shadwell, North Leeds, but also in surrounding towns and villages.
MEMBERSHIP is open to retired professional and business men and women.
The SUBSCRIPTION is £30.00 per annum, plus an initial joining fee of £6.00.
WE MEET usually on the third Monday of each month (except December) at 10.00 am for coffee prior to the meeting starting at 10.30 am.
VENUE: Sand Moor Golf Club, Alwoodley Lane, Leeds LS17 7DJ
INTERESTED IN JOINING? Contact Stanley Pearson our Hon Secretary by email or by phoning 0113 273 6463 for further information.
We have an interesting PROGRAMME OF SPEAKERS on a variety of subjects for the forthcoming year 2026-27:
March 16th – Mike Heath: My time as an advocate and judge.
April 20th – Brian Joyce: Commonwealth War Graves Commission – Gardening the globe
May 18th – Jan Levi: Kurt Hahn, the Jewish refugee who founded Gordonstoun
June 15th – Peter Spedding: Edward and Frank Oates of Meanwood, father and son
July 20th – Philip Ashe: Britain and the Great War (Part 1)
August 17th – Professor Joyce Hill: The past through place names – a sideways look at Leeds
September 21st – Malcolm Brookes: The Cyprus Green Line, exploring the buffer zone
October 19th – Lesley Newnham: Burmantofts pottery
November 16th – Malcolm Johnson: Captive on the carousel of time – charting the 1970s
January 18th 2027 – Philip Ashe: Britain and the Great War (Part 2)
February 15th 2027 – AGM
February 15th 2027 – AGM
SOCIAL EVENTS – to be arranged