CREEA - Cowes Radar Ex-Employees Association
meet at the Isle of Wight Community Club, Park Road, Cowes.
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 company in your day was called Decca, Plessey, Siemens-Plessey, Siemens, British Aerospace, AMS or BAE Systems, we welcome all ex-employees.
If you have any items which would 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 or Tel: 01983 523818.
REMAINING PROGRAMME FOR 2008:
Thursday 16th October
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
followed by ...
SUBJECT: "Update on Visit to Sri Lanka, Post-Tsunami".
SPEAKER: Barry Reeves.
Tuesday 11th November
Monthly Meeting
SUBJECT: "P.L.U.T.O. and the Isle of Wight".
SPEAKER: Adrian Searle.
Thursday 4th December
Christmas Party at Northwood Cricket Club - 5.00pm.
Check out the venue for our meetings:
Monthly meetings (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays)
Bar, Teas and Raffle.
Quarterly College lunch.
Christmas Party / Entertainment & Post-Christmas Luncheon.
Local outings (2 a year) and mainland trips (1 a year).
Here are some photos, courtesy of Mary Mead and Alan Welfoot, of the visit to Denbies Vineyard near Dorking, Surrey, on Tuesday 30th September 2008:
A small section of the group
The main building
Display vats
The wine tasting
Wall map of the vineyard showing the locations of the various grape varieties
Our mode of transport for the external tour
The start of the external tour
The ascent to the top
View from the top (better on a dry day)
A better view from the top (but still even better on a dry day)
Some of the grape-picking equipment
Washing down equipment after the first day of harvest
The kitchen garden centre
Here are some photos, courtesy of Alan Welfoot, of the visit to Moorfields Alpaca Farm at Brighstone on Thursday 24th July 2008:
Here are two photos of the visit to Wight Salads on Thursday 17th April 2008, courtesy of Wight Salads Group:
Here are eight photos, courtesy of Mary Mead, from the Christmas Tea 2007 held at Northwood Cricket Club on Tuesday 4th December 2007:
Here is a photo, courtesy of John Pewsey, of the visit to Highclere Castle on Tuesday 31st July 2007:
Our visit to Highclere on 31st July 2007, clearly enjoyed by all and one of the highlights of this year's programme with more to come.
Why not join us and put another smiling face in the picture?
For details contact: mary.mead@talktalk.net
A photo, courtesy of Barry Bates, of the visit to Arthur Reeder's Postal Museum on 10th May 2007 (in the rain).
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:
Enid Aylward 01983 297421
Joyce Knight 01983 294497
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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