Healthy Ageing

The next meeting of the Institution will be on Thursday November 12. The speaker will be Phil Hanlon on healthy ageing.

Please note that this will be an afternoon meeting, and will start at 2p.m, in the lecture theatre at Paisley Museum

Meeting 22 October 2015

The next meeting will be held at Paisley Museum on 7.30 on Thursday 22 October 2015.

The speaker will be Hugh Kerr and the subject is 'Kayaking in the Islands'. A brief synopsis from Mr. Kerr follows:

First an outline of why kayaking is an ideal way to travel round the islands and a whistle-stop tour of some of the places I've been.  This is a talk accompanied by slides.  

The second part is an audio visual presentation with music and slides

Flanders Field 1914

Alexander Hall will be delivering the above lecture on Thursday 8 October at 7.30 pm in the lecture room at Paisley Museum.

He has kindly supplied  a brief summary of what the talk will cover.

The talk starts off with a few facts and figures and an overview of the scale of the war, the Scottish Regiments involved and the “pals battalions “

I will touch on the  assassination of the  Arch duke and his assassain.

The 3 battles of Ypres and Paschendale and some of the military cemeteries.

A brief mention of Scottish winners of the V C and their actions to conclude.