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Monthly Meetings Monthly Meetings are held in the afternoons of the third Tuesday in each month at 2.30pm (except for the months of June, July and August) in St Paul's Parish Rooms, Reading Road, Wokingham with an invited speaker covering a wide variety of subjects. Group leaders of various activity groups are usually present and would be only too pleased to talk to you. If anyone wishes to start a new interest group and has sufficient support the committee are keen to extend even more the variety of interest groups. Monthly Meeting
London Oddities part 2 Sally Botwright (see www.sallybotwright.co.uk) Sally
Botwright is making a very welcome return to Wokingham on the first of
our monthly meetings of 2012.
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21st February 2012 ENSA, Alan Grace The Entertainments National Service Association or ENSA was an organization set up in 1939 by Basil Dean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War II. Alan Grace, who retired from a career in broadcasting, is now an archivist/historian of the Forces Broadcasting Service and has a wealth of knowledge about British broadcasting; so much so that he has and recently appeared on the BBC 4 TV programme “Entertaining The Troops”. During his forthcoming talk to us about ENSA he will recall the exploits of Dame Vera Lynn, Gracie Fields, George Formby, Tommy Trinder, Noel Coward and Joyce Grenfell to name but a few. One snippet of information he has given me which may interest you is that the first ENSA concert took place at the Old Dene Camp in Camberley on September 10th 1939. For the Future
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