The Eagle Society Gathering and Annual Dinner, 2015

BLETCHLEY

Buckinghamshire

Tuesday 22nd - Thursday 24th September 2015

The Eagle Society's 2015 Gathering and Annual Dinner

will be held at the 

Campanile Hotel

40 Penn Street, Fenny Stratford, Bletchley, 

Milton Keynes MK2 2UA

The Programme will include talks, time for socialising and 

a tour of Bletchley Park followed by 

The Eagle Society's Annual Dinner

Bletchley Park is the once secret but now famous site of the UK's Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), who penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers, including the German Enigma cipher, and ensured the outcome of the Second World War.

More information about the Hotel can be found on the Campanile Hotel website

More information on Bletchley Park can be found on the Bletchley Park website

Price  (including meals and two nights' accommodation):  £160 pp (members and their partners); £175 pp (non-members)

       

For further information please contact Howard Corn at: howard.corn@virginmedia.com

The Eagle Society Gathering and Annual Dinner, 2010

SOUTHPORT (Merseyside)

13th - 15th April 2010

The Eagle Society will be meeting to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the birth of Eagle - the National Strip Cartoon Weekly. The event will follow the format of previous gatherings, the all-inclusive package this time comprising two nights in Southport at the Duke's Folly Hotel (of which we have exclusive use), all meals including the Society's Annual Dinner, and a mix of presentations, talks and visits of interest to Eagle Society members. A break with tradition is that the event will be held mid-week so that we can celebrate on the exact anniversary.

• Tuesday 13th April - Arrive at the Duke's Folly Hotel (from 3pm), with afternoon tea and biscuits as you settle in. After a 3-course Dinner, gather "round the campfire" with Cowboy Singer Jim Ryder, who will sing all those songs associated with 'Riders of the Range' and the Old West. Also, relive memories of previous Eagle Society gatherings with an audio visual presentation by Paul Napp.

• Wednesday 14th April - Eagle's Birthday! Partake of a full English Breakfast before joining the Eagle Trail led by Peter Dyer and visiting in a private coach the places associated with Marcus Morris, Frank Hampson and the birth of Eagle. Lunch at the Botanic Gardens Banqueting Suite. During the afternoon, a special visit will be made to the Southport Model Railway Club, followed by Compline at St. James, Birkdale, led by Rev. Ian Mainey. In the evening enjoy the Eagle Society's Annual Dinner with the popular After Dinner Speech by Steve Winders, meet the author of When I went A'walking (with a chapter on the Eagle Trail), and be further entertained by our guests, including former members of the St. James Youth Club with their "Recollections of Marcus Morris", Southport Moviemakers and a presentation of Southport, the 1958 promotional film produced by the St. James Film Society.

• Thursday 15th April - After another full English Breakfast hear, about Portuguese Eagles from John Swan, and Eagle Economics from Cliff Maddock. Discuss the future of Eagle Times and the Eagle Society. After lunch make a leisurely departure for home.

For Members of the Eagle Society, the inclusive cost for the weekend is £135 sterling per person.

Please note that this event is fully booked through its prior advertisement to readers of the Society's magazine Eagle Times. In the event of cancellations places may become available. If you would like to be added to a stand-by list please contact Nigel McMurray by e-mail.

Eagle Society Weekend and Dinner, 2009

Please note that bookings for this year's previously advertised Eagle Society's Weekend and Annual Dinner at the Guy Chester Centre, Muswell Hill are now closed.

The Eagle Society Weekend and Annual Dinner, 2009

The Guy Chester Centre

Muswell Hill

24th - 26th April 2009

Our Social Secretary, Nigel McMurray, has again asked me to post, for the benefit of Members, the highlights for the Eagle Society Weekend, which this year will be held at the Guy Chester Centre, Muswell Hill, London.The package will include 2-night’s accommodation and most meals, including the Society’s Annual Dinner, plus two days of activities including talks and tours, beginning in the late afternoon of Friday, 24th April and concluding after lunch on Sunday, 26th April. The centre, which is a Methodist Retreat set in 10 acres of gardens and woodlands, has a car park, en-suite rooms and disabled facilities. Highlights of the weekend will include:

• The Eagle Society’s Annual Dinner at the Guy Chester Centre
• A visit to the RAF Museum at Hendon
• A History of Muswell Hill presented by a local historian
• Lunch at the Spaniards Inn (with its claimed association with Dick Turpin)
• Special Tour of Highgate Cemetery
• Fights in Eagle - a themed talk from by Eric Fernie
• “He wants to be ... a cab driver”
• Nostalgia isn't what it used to be - a look back at previous Eagle Weekends
• Treasure Island with John Worsley, Millar Watt and Dudley Watkins - a presentation and talk by John Swan
• Speedway and Eagle - Terry Stone, President of the World Speedway Riders Association, addresses the Eagle Society. And he's bringing a 1928 speedway machine!
• Sunday Service at Muswell Hill Methodist Church

For Members of the Eagle Society, the cost for the weekend, which includes two nights accommodation, is £110 sterling per person for a shared room, with an extra supplement of £20 per person for single rooms (subject to availability). Non-members wishing to take part should enclose in addition the appropriate (UK or Overseas) Membership Fee (separate cheque, please) with their application.

If you would like more details, or to confirm details and/or availability of places, please contact Nigel by e-mail . Or to make a definite booking would Members please write, enclosing payment (in £ sterling, please, cheques made payable to the Eagle Society) to:

Adrian Perkins
19, Wolsey Way,
Cherry Hinton,
Cambridge,
CB1 3JQ
United Kingdom

The illustration is the opening frame of 'Black Bess', from the series 'Famous Horse Stories', drawn by Raymond Sheppard. It appeared in Eagle Vol 5 No 40 (1st October, 1954).

Eagle Society Weekend and Dinner, 2008

Please note that bookings for this year's previously advertised Eagle Society's Weekend and Annual Dinner at Edinburgh are now closed.

Eagle Society Weekend and Annual Dinner, 2008

Edinburgh

9^th – 11^th May, 2008

Nigel McMurray, our Social Secretary, has asked me to post, for the benefit of Members, the highlights for this year’s Eagle Society Weekend, which will be held at the Carberry Conference Centre, Musselburgh, just outside Edinburgh. A full two days of activities including talks and tours are planned, starting on the afternoon of Friday, 9^th May and concluding after lunch on Sunday, 11^th May.

• The Eagle Society’s Annual Dinner - with haggis, neeps and tatties
• “A case for PC49” - Douglas Newbigging
  
• “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Lost World” - Alan Riach [provisional]
  
• “Wizard Tales” - Jeremy Briggs on the adventure comics of D.C. Thomson of Dundee
• A Tour of the Royal Yacht Britannia
• Lunch at the Hawes Inn - under the Forth Rail Bridge
  
• A trip to Roslyn Chapel
• A bus tour of Edinburgh – seeing the Castle, Sherlock Holmes statue, Scott monument, the Harry Potter café, Greyfriars Bobby, the Royal Mile, Holyrood Palace, the Scottish Parliament and the City from Arthur’s Seat
• Walk around South Queensferry - and view the Bridges.
• “Greyfriars Bobby; what really happened …”
• “Great Eagle soaring o’er the silvery Forth” – an especially commissioned poem “by William McGonagall”.
• “An Evening with Robert Louis Stevenson” - Ian Nimmo of the RLS Club
  
• “David Britton – polar explorer” - A new Eagle back page adventure!
  

For Members of the Eagle Society, the cost for the weekend is £160 sterling, which includes two nights accommodation. Non-members wishing to take part should enclose in addition the appropriate (UK or Overseas) Membership Fee (separate cheque, please) with their application.

If you would like more details, or to confirm details and/or availability of places, please contact Nigel by e-mail.

To make a definite booking would Members please write, enclosing payment (in £ sterling, please, cheques made payable to the Eagle Society) to:

Adrian Perkins
19, Wolsey Way,
Cherry Hinton,
Cambridge,
CB1 3JQ
United Kingdom

The illustration is from the adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World that was written by Richard Jennings, drawn by Martin Aitchison, and appeared in Eagle, Vol 13 No 10 – Vol 13 No 29 (1962).