Meeting and fellowship for retired men
Largs Probus Club held its annual Burns Lunch on Wednesday 24th January in the Willowbank Hotel attended by nearly 50, members, partners and guests. The Hotel staff provided their usual excellent table service and lunch, comprising cock-a-leekie soup or fruit cocktail, followed Read More …
This walk got off to a difficult start as the 906 bus from Largs did not run at the appointed time due to an earlier breakdown. In the event only three of us made it, George, Douglas and Phil. We Read More …
Andrew Carnegie was the fascinating subject of a recent talk by Playwright David Dewar to Largs Probus Club. David gave an excellent synopsis of how this second son, born into a poor family from Dunfermline in 1835, became the richest man in Read More …
A recent talk (10th January) to Largs Probus Club members took to the air as we learned about MAF – rather obscure, but standing for Mission Aviation Fellowship. MAF is the world’s largest humanitarian air operator. For over 75 years they Read More …
At a recent meeting of Largs PROBUS Club, a member, George Newlands, gave a short account of the action-packed career of Largs’ most notable native-born son, Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane,1st Baronet, GCB, GCH, FRS, FRSE. Sir Thomas Brisbane Read More …
“trench’d its gushing entrails bright.”
Translates as:
Digging into your glistening insides,