Meeting and fellowship for retired men
The story of Orkney’s greatest explorer, Dr John Rae, and the search for the North West Passage was the interesting subject of the talk by David Vennard to a recent meeting of Largs Probus Club. Dr Rae was to become 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 …
Largs PROBUS Club welcomed author and historian L Bruce Keith to a recent meeting. Bruce has written three books, one on his study of milestones called Are We Nearly There Yet? which he had previously spoken on, another on Scottish Read More …
The fact that Fairlie is on our doorstep yet very few members of Largs Probus Club were aware of the role the village played in combating the German U-boat threat, lead to a very interesting and informative talk by John Read More …
A recent talk (15th November) to Largs Probus Club members really went down well as Submariners Jim McMasters and Andy Knox spoke on the history of the Submarine Service. Jim gave a potted history of submarine development from its first tentative Read More …
“trench’d its gushing entrails bright.”
Translates as:
Digging into your glistening insides,