The programme of events for 2025

Meetings will be held in the Bridge Room of the Exeter Golf and Country Club, Topsham Road, Exeter and start at 10:30am prompt on the second Monday of the month (except if this coincides with a public holiday when the meeting will be held on a different Monday). Members’ meetings are private but if you would like to attend please contact the Club Secretary on 01803 553691 or email [email protected].

DateTypeDescription
13 January 2025Meeting EGCCJohn Davidson – “Who really Discovered the North Pole”
10 February 2025Meeting EGCCColin White – ‘The Y stations of the Second World War’
10 Mar 2025Meeting EGCCAlan Bullock, – “Mineral Refining and Processing”
14 April 2025Meeting EGCCRay Ambrose – ‘A personal history of electronics’
12 May 2025Meeting EGCCGeoff Pettinger – “Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, a Cornish Engineer – Development of a steam carriage”
9 June 2025Meeting EGCCColin White – “Taking Balls – A study of sports projectile trajectories”
14 July 2025Meeting EGCCGrahams Toombs – “The flood defences of London”
11 August 2025Meeting EGCCGrahame Forshaw – “The work of Exeter Harbour Master”
8 September 2025Meeting EGCCJim Saunders – “Engineering project difficulties in Gaddafi’s Libya”
13 October 2025Meeting EGCCRay Ambrose – “Electronics (part 2)”
10 November 2025Meeting EGCCBrian Denham – “Detectorist! An engineering perspective”
8 December 2025Meeting and Lunch at EGCCChristmas Lunch

The meetings programme for 2024

DateTypeDescription
8 January 2024Meeting EGCCProf. Wibberley – “Technology in Farming”
12 February 2024Meeting EGCCJRodney Battey – “The Search for Portable Electric Power”
11 March 2024Meeting EGCCJohn Davidson – “Volcanic Eruptions”
8 April 2024Meeting EGCCJohn Dike – “The first sub-ocean telegraph cables ” This is a change from “Princes in the Tower”
13 May 2024Meeting EGCCAGM, Barry Hayden – “Time”
10 June 2024Meeting EGCCGeoff Pettinger -“Nuclear Power -Past, Present and Future”
8 July 2024Meeting EGCCMike Sheehan – “Land Speed Record”
12 August 2024Meeting EGCCMike Pillage – “The Engineer in (someone else’s) Society Again”
9 September 2024Meeting EGCCRodney Battey – “Surface Phenomena in Engineering: adhesion, friction and lubricity”
14 October 2024Meeting EGCCBrian Fearnley – The Amazing Mr Cotton
11 November 2024Meeting EGCCRobbie Sillars – Offshore Gas Liquefaction
9 December 2024Meeting and Lunch at EGCCLucilla Phelps – Fine Art Photography