Calendar subject to change at short notice.
Please click on an event in the calendar for full details.
Weekly meetings take place on Thursday evenings and are normally held in the ‘MBA Lounge’, formerly known as the ‘Times Square Hall’, at the VBS Community Stadium, Gander Green Lane, Sutton, Surrey unless stated otherwise under Venue in the programme.
If no specific event is listed it will usually be a social evening.
Meetings start at 20.00. – Talks start at 20.15 unless stated otherwise in the event.
London’s More Important River – a talk by Jeremy Batch
What do navigational buoys, lighthouses, tidal power, Britain’s first aeroplane, gunpowder, rockets, the light bulb, the diode, television, electronic warfare, the safety match, the rifle, the bouncing bomb, plate glass, plastic, petrol, gin, dog biscuits and the world’s most powerful warship all have in common? Answer: all were invented, developed, manufactured or tested along the River Lea and its accompanying man-made canal, the Lee Navigation. It has been our border with Scandinavia, London’s lifeline during the Great Plague, and the venue for the 2012 Olympic Games. It boasted Britain’s first lock with mitre gates, and now London’s newest: the Three Mills Lock on the Prescott Channel. What were the Three Mills used for, and why are there only two?
Commodores Cruise talk
A friendly report on recent Commodores Cruise
CANCELLED Visit the new RNLI Tower Lifeboat Station
The UK’s busiest Lifeboat Station at Victoria Embankment If you would like to attend please email Gary Eversfield
Chichester – Back of IOW – Poole rally
East to Chichester harbour, back of IOW to Poole, back to Solent and possibly anchored at Hurst
Talk on Cray Computing
Our fellow member Geoff Balls will talk on Cray Computing. Who was Seymor Cray? By 1960, at the age of 34, Seymour Cray had established his reputation for genius in designing high performance computers. He had completed the design of the Control Data 1604, the first computer to be fully transistorized and had begun the design of the first system that earned the title of supercomputer, the CDC 6600 which was also the first major system to employ three-dimensional packaging and an instruction set that was later to be referred to as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer). Find out what he got up to before he sadly died after a car accident in 1996 on August 24th.
Visitors are welcome on any Thursday club night held at the VBS Community Stadium