Meetings

The Old Ship Harton Village South Shields

Apart from the Christmas Party, the venue for all talks is the upstairs lounge, The Old Ship 147 Sunderland Road, Harton Village, South Shields NE34 6NQ (across the road from St Peter's Church) There is car parking directly behind and to the side of the pub.

On the second Thursday of the month commencing at 1930 hours.

As a point of interest, this fine public house The Old Ship is the oldest pub in South Shields.

The following Speakers are presently arranged for 2010 :-

January 14th TASC Member Brian McDearmid T 34 Tanks - The Russian Warhorse A 'thundering' good presentation!

February 11th TASC Member Barry Hailes - 'The Man with the Donkey' The story of South Shields Man John Simpson Kirkpatrick - A very interesting portrayal of this well-known story - nicely done Barry!

March 11th TASC Member Tommy Proctor - A History of Tugboats

April 8th TASC Annual General Meeting (plus additional item)

May 13th Vera Selby - A woman in a mans world (Womens world snooker champion 1979 and 1981)

June 10th Bill Saunders - Bessie Surtees

July 8th Dr C Fraser - Master Mariners of Newcastle

August 12th Barbara Matheson - Grace Darling

September 9th Bill Saunders - The Pit Village

October 14th Prof Alex Crombie - Blue Gold and the Queen of Sheba

November 11th Colin Ross - The Korean War

December 9th Christmas Party at the Jack Clark Bowling Cenre

The Tyne Area Shipping Club is very grateful to our guest speakers and thank them for such high calibre presentations.

Thanks too go to our secretary Jim for his hard work in organising the diary of speakers for the year.

Should members happen to hear of or come across Speakers who they feel would be well received at the club - please provide details to the secretary or send to me using the contact page