CREEA – COWES RADAR EX-EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION ISLE OF WIGHT

Posted by Admin on 27 July 2011, 11:13 pm

CREEA
COWES RADAR EX-EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION
ISLE OF WIGHT

REMAINING PROGRAMME FOR 2011:COLLEGE LUNCH: Wednesday 14th September (date to be confirmed) – 12.00 for 12.15pm – in the Isle of Wight College Restaurant.

Meeting: Thursday 22nd September
SPEAKER: MIKE NORTH – HMS Warrior

Tuesday 25th October
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
followed by
SPEAKER: MAIRE REEVES – Pictures tell Stories

Meeting: Thursday 24th November
SPEAKER: CHERYL VAUGHAN – Chocs Away

Tuesday 6th December
CHRISTMAS PARTY in Northwood Cricket Club – 4.00pm to 6.30pm

There may be additional visits to Island destinations which will be announced when appropriate. Suggestions from the membership would be most welcome.

All items are subject to change – updated information will be advertised here.

Please scroll down to see our selection of photos taken during our various trips and events.

CREEA –
Cowes Radar Ex-Employees Association

meet at the Isle of Wight Community Club, Park Road, Cowes.
Check out the venue for our meetings: Isle of Wight Community Club Website

Download a copy of our 2011 Programme HERE

All meetings start at 2.30pm unless otherwise stated.

This Association was founded in 1978, open to the retired employees and their spouses/partners from all the PLESSEY RADAR sites but primarily those from COWES, Isle of Wight.

Whether the name of the company in your day was
Decca
Plessey
Siemens-Plessey
Siemens
British Aerospace
AMS
or
BAE Systems,
we welcome all ex-employees.

If you have any items which may be of interest to other CREEA members and which you would like to see displayed on this web-page, please contact Alan Welfoot –
Email: nneditor@northwoodvillage.org.uk

Could all members who have an email address please register it with the secretary:
Mary Mead
Tel: 01983 298154
mary.mead@talktalk.net

as this will help to reduce the cost of communication in the event that any announcements need to be made or if there are any changes to the programme.

Monthly meetings (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays)
Bar, Tea, Coffee and Raffle.
Quarterly College lunch.
Christmas Party with Entertainment
New Year Luncheon.
Local outings (2 or more a year) and mainland trips (1 a year).

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PHOTOGRAPHS

Visit to the Apollo Theatre, Newport on Wednesday 10th November 2010, courtesy of Barry Bates:

Visit to Brading Station and Heritage Centre on Tuesday 27th April 2010, courtesy of Malcolm Shaw:

Visit to Athelhampton House on Wednesday 21st April 2010, courtesy of Stan Brooke:

Why not join us and put another smiling face in the pictures?

For details contact: mary.mead@talktalk.net

New members very welcome!

Tel: Mary Mead on 01983 298154

or email: mary.mead@talktalk.net

This Association was founded in 1978, open to the retired employees and their spouses/partners from all the PLESSEY RADAR sites but primarily those from COWES, Isle of Wight. Whether the company in your day was called Decca, Plessey, Siemens-Plessey, Siemens, British Aerospace, AMS or BAE Systems, we welcome all ex-employees. Since the take-over by BAE Systems, qualifying membership has been extended to all ex-employees from any BAE Systems site. To date we have a membership of 57 with eight new members joining this year.

Our programme of monthly meetings has, over the years, seen members entertained by a variety of speakers on subjects as diverse as the “Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron” to comedy scriptwriting by Island resident Raymond Allen of “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em” fame.

Other activities include quarterly lunch dates at the IW College, an annual post-Christmas Lunch, and visits to local and mainland (Southern England) attractions. We have just returned from a very successful day trip to Highclere Castle which everyone thoroughly enjoyed with beautiful sunny weather.

President:
John Pewsey 01983 407300

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Chairman:
Barry Bates 01983 296303 batesbarry@onwight.net

Vice Chairman:
Barry Reeves 01983 527804 b.m.reeves@btinternet.com

Treasurer:
Joy Ash 01983 298731 chinou@talktalk.net

Secretary:
Mary Mead 01983 298154 mary.mead@talktalk.net

Committee Members:
Ken Welfare

SEE OUR VILLAGE DIARY ENTRY FOR OUR NEXT MEETING OR EVENT AND OUR REGULAR ADVERT IN THE LOCAL PARISH MAGAZINE, NORTHWOOD NEWS. IF YOU DO NOT LIVE IN NORTHWOOD YOU CAN STILL DOWNLOAD A COPY OF NORTHWOOD NEWS FROM HERE:
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