2025 - 2026
Syllabus (October 2025 to March 2026)
Date | Speaker | Subject |
6th October 2025 | Elspeth Crocket | What Mary did Next: the young Mary Queen of Scots stayed in Dumbarton Castle before sailing for France |
20th October | Iain Wotherspoon |
Otago Lane - the architectural Development of Kelvinbridge |
3rd November | Susanne Hall | Cousin Jack - he never came back: a search for a First World War Pilot |
17th November | Stuart Baird | The Construction of the A82 |
8th December |
Christmas meeting Sam Gibson |
Quiz, Mince pies, talk: Miss Grace Hamilton of Barns and Cochno |
19th January 2026 | Oliver Braid | Miss Cranston and the Willow Tearooms |
2nd February | Bryan Tennant (GVVT) | Red Trams go West |
16th February*7pm A.G.M. |
followed by talk from Florence Boyle |
From Foe to Friend: the enemy soldiers who became neighbours |
2nd March | Warwick Louth | The Covenanters |
16th March | Members evening: 85th anniversary of Clydebank Blitz |
85 years on: the Blitz Remembered; extracts from Dave Carson's DVD interviews; members' stories and memories |