Speaker Vanessa Morgan: My father, Francis Hill, joined the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in September 1939 and was with the British Expeditionary Force in France until May 1940. They were then told to make for Dunkirk, and it was on his way to Dunkirk that he, and a group of friends, were captured. Sent to a POW camp in Poland he was quickly sent out on working parties for the next four years. He was then part of the…

Come and find out about the fascinating and often tragic stories of the girls and women who signed up to be munition workers. They suffered danger, explosions and poisoning whilst involved in making munitions for the War effort during the First World War! Speaker Paul Wilkins.    

‘I was not expecting that’ an illustrated sports talk with Neil Wagstaff featuring some of the most obscure, fascinating and frankly weird sports stories from the local area and further afield. This will have a historical element and will appeal to a very wide audience not just those of a sporting persuasion!