January 2022 Lunch Report

We had a good start to our Jubilee year, welcoming a new member to the Club and then congratulating two of our members on reaching the age of 80, each given a customary bottle of claret.

After a meal of fish pie followed by a chocolate brownie with ice cream, we were given a most interesting talk by Mike Curtis entitled “Sea Dogs., Pirates and Privateers”, covering the history of such sea-faring opportunists as Sir Francis Drake, in the days of Elizabeth I, to “Calico Jack” Rackham, who was active, until executed for piracy, in the reign of George I.

John Gilbert