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Seven members and a guest visited the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine where they got a taste not only of the massive scale of early maritime engineering but also of the rigours of life in the mainly Clyde shipyards of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The guest was none other than Bob Graham (Eileen Alexander's dad) ...
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Our guest speaker this week was Wellington school, 6th year pupil, Lauren O’Brien. Lauren is in sixth year and currently applying to universities (first choice Oxford) to study law. She is passionate about languages and is involved in extra-curricular musical activities. She also competed in this year’s Rotary ‘Youth ...
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The popular stereotype of an undertaker is that of a grave (pun intended), slightly stooping, pin-stripe-suited man under a tile-hat. Well that was the first myth dispelled by Tara Cameron when she visited our club to talk to us about her career as an undertaker. Youthful, fresh-faced, smiley and humorous best describes ...
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Douglas Brown, as a fully-paid up and enthusiastic member of the “Sons of the Desert” appeared at our club meeting, shirt hanging out of his trousers and wearing a purple sash and red, velvet fez. Some members, mistakenly believing him to have lost his way from a nearby stag party, tried to redirect him, but no – it ...
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Douglas Wilson, officer (Lt.) in the 17th Ayr Boys' Brigade company, attended our club meeting to be presented with a £200 cheque from the Treasure Chest fund. The presentation was made by President Craig and John Ewing, Community Service convenor.
The money had assisted two company activities through the hire of a ...
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President Craig once again came up with a fiendishly difficult set of questions for our annual mastermind quiz. There was much murmuring in the ranks throughout the meal as members delved into their distant memories to try to recall, amongst other things, those US presidents of yesteryear, identified on the question sheet ...
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It was with great and genuine sadness that members heard last week of the passing of Derek Waugh. Derek arrived in Ayr twenty-seven years ago and had been an enthusiastic stalwart of the community, more recently including our own club.
In a moving tribute to Derek at Masonhill Crematorium, the Rev Fraser Aitken ably ...
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Local historian and raconteur, Denis Rattenbury, gave the club an excellent discourse on various aspects of smuggling in Ayrshire in the 18th century. In his introduction Denis revealed his credentials for this topic in his Devonian ancestry citing, in particular, his great, great grandfather, Jack Rattenbury.
Jack, ...
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On the morning of Wednesday 16 August, we were honoured to welcome Denis Spiller, the National President of Rotary International Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI) along with the 1230 District Governor, Gary Louttit, to see and experience for themselves the delights of the Ayrshire Coastal Path. There to welcome them, at ...
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Alister Firth came to the club meeting in different guise to the photographer that we are used to. This time he was here as a member of the BUYMSH (Buy Malcolm Sargent House) trust, set up to build a new 21st Century Holiday House in Ayrshire for children and young people suffering from cancer and other life altering ...
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