This Remembrance Sunday at 1pm, Harrogate Brigantes will hold our 28th annual Remembrance Service at the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Stonefall, Harrogate. Over 1,000 graves lie here, most belonging to young airmen, many of them volunteers, who came from…
West Park United Reform Church, on the corner of Victoria Avenue and West Park in Harrogate was opened in 1862. It catered for a congregation of 700. Three years ago, with barely 30 worshipping there, it was in a bad…
Fresh back from six months in South-East Asia, Rotarian and professional photographer Charlotte Gale engaged Brigantes members with an interactive insight into her travels, local culture, traditions, history and the amazing APOPO land mine rats. Charlotte spent four of her…
Well, that was what quizmaster, Dastardly Doveston, billed it as. But the members attending on 8 April found out the hard way that that was not quite true. Split into five teams three or four strong we all breezed through…
The 2025 Rotary Technology Tournament, organised by Bob Tunnicliffe from Harrogate Brigantes, attracted 34 teams from local secondary schools. Students hard at work producing their machines They battled it out to see who could successfully construct a machine which would…
Nell Bank Centre near Ilkley was the setting for a Showcase Event on 5th March attended by Stephanie Urchick, the Rotary International President – the top Rotary officer. This was one of four UK events she was attending in this…
Brigantes member Moya Prichard was our castaway this time, prompted by Guy Wilson standing in For Lauren Laverne who was unavailable. Moya took us through her eventful life thus far, taking in marriage to Keith, living in Wiltshire and Jersey…
A diver working on the wreck of the Gribshunden Forget the Mary Rose and the Titanic. Now there’s the Gribshunden and it lies in shallow waters just off the southern coast of Sweden. It was a sort of floating palace…
Children of Funzi and Bodo –Photo courtesy of the Funzibodo Trust It’s not the name of a new boy band but a combination of Funzi and Bodo, two islands in Kenya. Ashley Peatfield told us the story of how a…
The Picture depicts our critics about to demolish their coattage pie The Falcon of Sparta by Conn Iggulden This was our February Book Club book, a historical yarn from antiquity about Greek and Persian armies slugging it out in the…