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Club Christmas Dinner

10th December 2024
Venue: Harris Suite - Kent Cricket Ground
 The Club's Christmas Dinner is being held on Tuesday, 10th December, in the Harris Suite at the Canterbury Cricket Ground, at 7pm.
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Canterbury Christmas lights and Market

17th December 2024
Venue: Cafe Nero St Georges St. Canterbury
President Maxine invites you to join her for a coffee at Café Nero at 4.30 pm on Tuesday, 17th December before visiting the Canterbury Christmas Market and viewing the Christmas lights.
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New member Brian Wheeler inducted

Our newest member, Brian Wheeler, is seen below being inducted into the Club by President Viv Pritchard on May 12th, 2015.

 

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   photos: Robin Hendy – click to enlarge

Born in Belfast, Brian attended Belfast Royal Academy, then on to Queen’s University Belfast to read Chemistry.  Graduated with a First in 1966 followed by a Ph.D, the same year as he married Rosemary.  He then spent two years as a Research Fellow at Imperial College London followed by a similar two years at Trinity College Dublin. 

Appointed to the teaching staff of Methodist College Belfast where he remained for the next thirty years, Brian progressed to Head of Chemistry, Head of the Science Faculty and finally to Vice-Principal.  On retirement he and Rosemary moved to France for three years before returning to the UK in 2011 to be closer to their son Philip who is a GP in London.   

Brian joined Canterbury Bowling Club in 2012 and is currently their Men’s Junior Vice-Captain.

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