RYDE ROWING CLUB Fish & Chip Suppers and Talks. Thursday, 26th November - CANCELLED.

RYDE ROWING CLUB Fish & Chip Suppers and Talks. Thursday, 26th November - CANCELLED.

I am sure that it will come as no surprise to you all that unfortunately, in the current circumstances, the Club has decided that it has no choice but to cancel the 150 Club Talk and Fish & Chips event planned for Thursday, 26th November. This talk was scheduled to be by - Mark Earp and was about

Ryde 200 years - ‘From smugglers haunt to largest town’.

So that is the last "Fish & Chip" Supper we had planned for this year - all but one was eventually cancelled!

However I thought I would just share with you all our current plans regarding resuming the talks/fish & Chip Supper's once the restrictions end and we have been working on the Talks and Fish & Chip for next year - when we assume the current restrictions will have been lifted.

Our current plans are -

List of speakers for 2021 - all subject to change.

Thursday 25th February – Phillip Norman – The Skaters’ Waltz and
Babycham Night – Phillip is also the biographer of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and a new biography of Jimi Hendrix to come out in

Thursday 25th March – Adrian Searle – Churchill’s last wartime secret

Thursday 29th April – Marc Earp – Ryde 200 years, ‘From smugglers haunt to largest town.’  TBC.

Thursday 27th May – Kevin Shaw – The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson’s Poem and the Crimean War.

Thursday 24th June – Stuart Bennett – Chile to Bolivia – 
overland trip up into the high Andes. 

Thursday 29th July – Barry Groves – ‘Joe’ Carstairs – the fastest woman on water and Queen of Whale Cay.

Thursday 19th August (week earlier do to Ryde Carnival) – Martin Woodward -The tragic sinking of the SS ‘Mendi’ off the Isle of Wight in 1917

Thursday 30th September – Mark McNeill – Classic Boat Museum

Thursday 28th October – Tracey Dove – The Wildheart Trust – 
Home of the IW Zoo. TBC.