Past Master Ken and Eileen Reay

Past Master Ken Reay profile

The Company is pleased to share the following link to the Washington, Old County Durham, local history site which has recently posted a profile of Past Master Ken Reay titled  Memories of a Washington Physicist/Astronomer.

 

 

Oxford Hub meeting

Oxford Hub meeting

The SIM Oxford Hub held a meeting on the 22nd November at the Rose and Crown. As usual there was good and informed conversation, catching up with everyone’s news and progress, and generally putting the World to rights. The evening finishes with a curry next door.

From left to right, Richard Hartley, Roger Sutton, me, Sarah Hughes, Annie Davies, Tom Davies, Roger Goldsbrough and Simon Flower.

The next meeting with be soon after Christmas.

Freeman Jana Skirnewskaja, Master Philip Thomas, Liveryman Mike Belton & SIM banner at Lord Mayors Show 2022

WCSIM at the Lord Mayor’s Show

What could be better than a stroll in the warm, autumn sunshine, through the heart of the City, with no cars to bother you, because, thoughtfully, all the roads have been closed to traffic, just to preserve your peace of mind?  Indeed, why not march down the centre of the road, and get a once-in-a-lifetime view of the striking buildings on either side?  Add in the crowds, who are standing four deep next to the road and cheering you on, and your stately progress verges on the royal!