GOLF REPORT AND RESULTS 2014 Photographs of the prize-giving are to be found after the results and sponsor list……. Captain - Barrie Yates Secretary - Steve Stacey This year the event was held at Scarcroft G. C. The weather, golf […]
The 2014 Summer Solstice Walk was held on 19th June and took the form of a gentle stroll around Pugney’s Country Park. This was followed by supper. Seventeen people would rather walk around Pugney’s on our Annual Walk than watch England’s football team play Uruguay in Brazil on the television ! (Well done you outdoor types ! ) Was it […]
The 148th LAE Anniversary Dinner was held on Friday 9th May 2014. (Photos at the end of the report) This year the dinner was moved to the month of May to avoid the chilly wet weather of February. As before the venue was ‘Leeds Seventeen’. Special guests were the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Leeds, Councillor Tom Murray […]
At short notice your vice-president, Barrie Yates, has been able to arrange a special visit to Sheffield Forgemasters… www.sheffieldforgemasters.com The visit is to be on Friday 16th May at 2.30 pm. (prompt) A ‘PDF’ map of the location is available showing the meeting point at Gate No. 2 Map Announced recently at the last meeting there is a visit to […]
The 2014 Annual General Meeting will be held prior to the Lecture on Thursday 10th April at the Cleckheaton venue. You can read, download and print a copy of last year’s minutes in advance of the meeting on 10th April 2014. A text document can be opened using this link: - 2013 AGM Minutes and you can then copy and […]
There are some interesting events coming up soon… ! Don’t miss them… Put the dates in your diaries and on your electronic gizmos ! Thursday 10th April there is the Annual General Meeting to be immediately followed by a lecture by John Bentley on his Model Railway Engines… Friday 9th May we have our prestige Annual Dinner at ‘Leeds Seventeen’ […]
Meet Roger W. Smith – Watchmaker extraordinaire ! He can spend a week producing a tiny cog that his rivals might churn out in a few seconds. Just one sneeze can make a month’s work disappear into thin air (it happened once). Everything about his production line is studiously low-key — the building, the people, even the name for that […]
The world’s longest aircraft (as opposed to a lighter than air ‘airship’) has just been unveiled at an airfield in Cardington, England, from where the great airships of the 1920′s flew. At first, you might mistake it for a giant airship – gas-filled balloon on top, pod slung underneath. But the unique, aerodynamic shape of the balloon – it looks […]
