The Bridgwater Hall Singers
“The choir was wonderful, good harmony and musicality, it made listening a real pleasure”
We also heard about ‘Friends of Frankie’, a Charity supported by Brian.
Speaker: Dr Catherine Kidd, (always known as Katy) is a retired doctor who spent almost her entire career working in aspects of the Community Health Services and Public Health. Originally from Oxford, Katy qualified in medicine at Trinity College Dublin in 1973, and worked in Dublin, Cheshire and Wirral for almost 40 years.
As well as clinical work in community women’s services, her wide range of duties in the Wirral included teaching doctors and medical students. Katy did an MBA in Health Service Management at Keele University in the early 1990’s, and this led to significant involvement in medical management. These duties included being Director of Infection Prevention and Control for Wirral Primary Care Trust from 2004 to 2011, which included playing a leading role in the preparation for, and management of, the swine flu pandemic of 2009/10. In the North West of England, detailed preparations for an anticipated flu pandemic had been taking place for several years, and included looking back at lessons which could be learned from the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918/19.
Synopsis: Katy’s talk covered a range of aspects of the 1918/19 pandemic, including its probable origins, the reasons for its spread, both locally and worldwide, and its effects on civilian and military populations. The relationship between the pandemic and the First World War was discussed, including its probable role in shortening the length of this war. Also covered was the topic of how the pandemic was dealt with in the UK, and why, and looking back a few years to our recent Covid pandemic, whether any lessons were really learned.
Manchester fared so much better than most urban areas in the UK in the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918
Feedback from attendee’s
telling us the story of Gorton Monastery, following which he took us on a gentle walking tour of the building.
Lunch will be served in the Nave.
Stephen was the last organist of the Monastery, playing at the final Mass in 1989.
The original organ was sold for scrap when the church closed. An almost identical organ has been donated to the Trust. Thanks to donations, this organ has been refurbished. Fund raising continues to enable installation in the organ loft of the Great Nave.
Past lawyer, present entertainer and now a story teller. Sue seeks to inform with humour and has been entertaining people for as long as she can remember and worked as a lawyer for slightly less a time (36 years.) Sue enjoyed a fulfilling and interesting career with a passion for learning.
“The law is something that touches and confounds us all from time to time and in my professional life I strived to convey both my enthusiasm and learning. In my retirement I seek to couple my interests to bring you an entertaining insight into the subject of my talks.”
Sue’s subject today was
A light hearted look at husbands (and wives) the famous, the infamous and the completely unknown. Illustrated through fact, fiction, comedy and verse.
