Archives for August 2022

Earlier that year, Britain had joined the European Community and President Nixon famously met the Chinese leader Chairman Mao.

The crew of Apollo 17 took the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph of the Earth from a distance of about 18,000 miles.

On 27 October 1972 the number one record in the UK charts was Mouldy Old Dough by Lieutenant Pigeon  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64VvUVLl7W0 but more importantly a group of people met at a pub in Leicester to form The Russell Society!

We plan to celebrate the 50^th Anniversary of the formation of the Society exactly fifty years to the day, possibly almost to the hour!

Join us from 8:00 pm on Thursday 27 October to raise a glass to the Society, contribute your memories and reminiscences and hear those of others. Participate in a light-hearted quiz loosely linked to the Russell Society, and share any funny stories that come to mind.

We’ll be online via Zoom with the doors opening at 7:45 pm.

If you would like to give a short presentation, contribute photos to show, or have a story that you’d like to share, please contact Roy Starkey ASAP.

Further details will be circulated nearer the date.

Charge your glasses, dig out your old photos and memories and get ready for a fun-filled evening of nostalgia.

See you there!

The Society will not be holding a meeting at Maisemore this autumn, but is is hoped that this very successful annual event will resume next year.

Our programme of monthly zoom talks starts in September. All talks start at 8pm with the waiting room open from 7.45pm. As usual log-in details will be given on the members’ page. Non-members are welcome to join us subject to there being places as there is a limit on numbers. If you would like to attend any lecture but are not a member, please contact the webmaster about a week before: 

 

21 September – Roy Starkey – Philip Rashleigh’s Mineral Collection at the Royal Cornwall Museum and Why It Is Important.        Joint meeting with the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (see http://geologycornwall788.bravesites.com/2021-lectures-and-events for full details and the log-in link)  Note: The waiting room for this talk will open at 7.50pm

19 October – Shane Webb – Loch Tay, Scotland: a mineralogical overview of some of the highest-grade gold deposits in Britain.

16 November – Ollie O’Reilly, Cornish Lithium – The Geology and Mineralogy of the Trelavour Deposit: a Lithium-Rich Granite Resource

21 December Rachel Walcott – Data-capturing history, mysteries, and the emergence of Robert Jameson’s systematic mineral collection.

18 January – Michael Doel – The Uranium Mine at Menzenschwand.

15 February – David Aubrey-Jones – Last Season’s Russell Society Trips.

15 March – Woody Thompson – Maine Pegmatites.

19 April – Speaker and topic awaiting confirmation.

17 May – Speaker and topic awaiting confirmation.