Cowes Radar Ex-Employees Association

We meet at the Isle of Wight Community Club, Park Road, Cowes:

You can download a PDF copy of our current programme here:

CREEA Programme 2012

(updated 19th May 2012)

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

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”, comedy scriptwriting by Island resident Raymond Allen of “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em” fame, conspiracy theories concerning the Titanic, and a talk about HMS Warrior.

Other activities include quarterly lunch dates at the IW College and other venues, an annual Christmas Party in Northwood Cricket Club, a New Year Lunch in the New Holmwood, Cowes, and visits to local and mainland (Southern England) attractions.

Contacts

President

Graham Blake

Chairman

Barry Bates

Tel: 01983 296303

Email: batesbarry@onwight.net

Vice-Chairman

Barry Reeves

Treasurer

Joy Ash

Secretary

Mary Mead

Tel: 01983 298154

Email: mary.mead@talktalk.net

Membership Secretary

John Mead

Committee Member and Liaison Officer

Ken Welfare

Photo of CREEA Committee Members

CREEA Committee

(click photo to enlarge)

- left to right:

Barry Reeves – Vice-Chairman
Joy Ash – Treasurer
John Mead – Membership Secretary
Graham Blake – President
Ken Welfare – Committee Member & Liaison Officer
Mary Mead – Secretary
Barry Bates – Chairman