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2022 Celebrity Lunch
2022 Christmas Lunch
2023 Christmas Lunch
2023 Summer Lunch
2024 Christmas Lunch
2024 Summer Lunch
Past Celebrity Lunch Speakers
Some past Speakers
Tyrrells Wood in Summer
Tyrrells Wood in Winter
Visits - Battersea Power Station
Visits - Brunswick House and the Embassy Quarter
Visits - Cutlers Hall
Visits - Sky Garden and Horizon22
Walking Group
England cricketer, Bob Willis
TV Presenter, Chris Tarrant
Entertainer, Richard Stilgoe
Rugby Union Legend, Rob Andrew
Chris Cowdrey with fellow England cricketers Angus Fraser, Pat Pocock, Mark Butcher and Clive Radley. © Mark Lewis
Members and guests enjoying the 2022 Celebrity Lunch
The cricketing celebrities
Tony Hills (Ashtead Chairman) and Jon McCarthy (Leatherhead Chairman) mark the amalgamation of the two clubs
May 2022 - Guy Bartlett on Concorde
Chris Cowdrey interviewed by member Brian Downing OBE
August 2022 - Steve Bird on the Fall of Singapore
White Down and Surrey Hills Walk
November 2022 - Steve Lewis on life as a newspaper photographer
Brunswick House
Brunswick House - the restaurant
Inside Brunswick House
Our Secretary strikes a pose
Inside Brunswick House
The Thames at Vauxhall
New construction in the Embassy Quarter
The US Embassy
2022 Christmas Lunch
2022 Christmas Lunch
2022 Christmas Lunch
2022 Christmas Lunch
2022 Christmas Lunch
2022 Christmas Lunch
2022 Christmas Lunch
February 2023 - David Williams on The History of the French Foreign Legion
March 2023 - Tim Flesher on being Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher
April 2023 - Peter Griffith on serving 45 years in aviation
Inside the chimney lift - looking up!
Art Deco styling remains
Apartments designed by Frank Gehry
Turbine Hall shops
'Control Room B' bar
View from the chimney viewing pod
Westhanger and Shere walk
May 2023 - Paul Whittle on the story of Gibraltar
May 2023- Informal Lunch at the Toby Cottage Ripley
2023 Summer Lunch
2023 Summer Lunch
2023 Summer Lunch
Westcott area Walk
July 2023 - Graeme Payne on seaside piers of England
August 2023 - Bill McNaught on Sam Cody: American Showman
September 2023 - Dr Helen Naylor on Old Father Thames
Post walk lunch at the Wotton Hatch
Friday Street, south of Wotton
November 2023 - Hugh Thomas on The Rise of Modern Turkey
January 2024 - Iain Kennedy on the Story of the West Indies
February 2024 - Sir Anthony Seldon on The Impossible Office? Being Prime Minister
March 2024 - Steve Bird on Industrial Relations at Ford in the '70s and '80s
April 2024 - Jacqui Hamlin on The Dorking Repair Café
May 2024- Peter Stammers on The Genius of Einstein
July 2024 - Roger Mendham on the Art of the Automobile
August 2024 - Keith Smith on the work of the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Service
September 2024 - Dananjaya Silva on The History of The Tea Trade
The Walkie Talkie (with Sky Garden viewing platform)
The Sky Garden at the top of the Walkie Talkie
Horizon22 seen from the Monument
Looking down on the Walkie Talkie
November 2024 - Andy Richardson on V-Bombers
2024 Christmas Lunch
The Downsmen Barbershop Chorus
January 2025 - Simon Culhane on the paradox of increased longevity but falling populations
Visit to Cutlers Hall
February 2025 - Shaun Waddell on Ashtead Common
March 2025 - Peter Griffiths on part 2 of his career in aviation
