The items listed below are some of the events of the past few years.

June 2024:- Chris Smyth our Events Officer arranged our annual trip out this year, to visit the National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool which houses RMS Trincomalee as its main attraction. The weather was very kind to us keeping dry all day, every one took their own tour around the ship and staged rooms to show what some people lived in those days.

Seeing the secrets of war before you in the moving HMS Prosperity. Going through the exhibition of each part of the ship brought to life by the stories the staff told of onboard conditions. We climbed aboard the last remaining Royal Navy ship to be built in India, HMS Trincomalee, we discovered the rich history of this extraordinary ship and experience the hierarchy of life at sea from the captain's cabin to the crew’s mess deck. The power of HMS Trincomalee cannons that are fired daily and on weekends, and having the chance to handle some of the recreated objects that were used on board was great.

May 2024:- 2 Speakers from the Blyth battery attended our club to give us a historical Talk on the Life of the battery complex and the surrounding area; the 21 members present enjoyed the talk (slightly lower attendance due to holidays and medical appointments).

Mr Colin Durward and Mr David Gregory were given a Hugh applause at the end of the session and it was followed by a presentation by Mr George Robson (One of our club members) to Colin with two Arcadian China Crested WW1 Cannon Shells [items of Dec 1914 cannon shells out from his own collection of ceramic items].

2023 our annual Christmas lunch this year was on the 20th December at "The Sand Piper" attended by 21 members with 13 members guests making 34 in total.

This event was arranged by our Club Events Officer Chris Smyth.

June 2023:-Thanks to the generosity of the Community fund our club was able to partly sponsor our annual trip out, this year, we went to Preston Park Museum & Grounds which is near Yarm.

The event was arranged by our club Treasurer and some of the committee. The day was quite wet (continuous rain) so our time was mostly spent inside the house and attached Winter Garden. The house is a museum with a Victorian Street which flows between the house proper and the parklands, the shops on the street are run by volunteers which unfortunately due to the day didn’t allow all the shops to be open.

There were 34 people attended the event some of which were members wives, everyone enjoyed the day despite the weather.

2019 our annual Christmas lunch this year was on the 18th December at "The Killingworth Arms" attended by 18 members some with their wives making 26 in total.

This event was arranged by our Club Secretary Ray Calboutin.

2018 our annual Christmas lunch this year was on the 19th December at "The Killingworth Arms" attended by 12 members some with their wives making 20 in total.

This event was arranged by our Club Secretary Ray Calboutin.

14th March 2018 Dr Sara J. Mitchell came to the club to gave us a presentation today on “Dementia Friends”.

Sara said that we should have a star as we were the largest group that she has spoken to in the last 18 months, she looks after the team in the North Shields memory clinic and she was with us to be aware of and help with anyone with dementia to become a “Dementia Friend”. The telltale signs of the disease she asked for words that we thought a person with Dementia would feel also that there are hundreds of types of Dementia and it takes an analysis of each patient to diagnose if dementia or Alzheimer’s is the correct diagnosis. A couple of games were played to guess the correct wording in sentences describing the feelings and exportations a patient would have, then we had to list the processes that would have to be done to make a cup of tea; the answers ranged between 8 and 17 processes. Sara also described some of the problem dementia patients have with everyday situations and how their short term memory is affected in both the hippocampus (Factual Memory) and the Amygdala (Feelings Memory) your visit to a friend or relative may not be remembered but the feeling they felt about the visit is remembered. Sara ended with a questionnaire on what each of us had gained during the presentation, how it had affected us and what changes would we try to apply in our dealings with other people.

20th March 2018 "North Tyneside CCG" held a "Care Navigators Roadshow" exhibition at Wallsend Coutermer First Library, 5 members manned the stand for us.

This event was attended to raise the profile of our club to the men of the coastal area offering them our weekly meetings and social events.

Pictured left to right are Ray Kelly, Stuart Lewis, Ray Calboutin, John Talyor, and David Callum.

2017 our annual Christmas lunch this year was on the 20th December at "The Killingworth Arms" attended by 16 members some with their wives making 25 in total.

This event was arranged by our Club Secretary Ray Calboutin.

2016 our annual Christmas lunch this year was on the 21st December at "The Killingworth Arms" attended by 11 members some with their wives making 18 in total.

This event was arranged by our Club Secretary Ray Calboutin.

2015 our annual Christmas lunch this year was on the 16th December at "The Killingworth Arms" attended by 15 members some with their wives making 27 in total.

This event was arranged by our Club Secretary Ray Calboutin.

November 2015 "North Tyneside Council" held a "Customer 1st" exhibition at Whitley Bay Library, 4 members manned the stand for us.

This event was attended to raise the profile of our club to the men of the coastal area offering them our weekly meetings and social events.

Pictured left to right are Ray Calboutin, John Bale, other member present were Peter Harris and David Callum.

2014 our annual Christmas lunch this year was on the 16th December at "The Killingworth Arms" attended by 21 members somewith their wives making 31 in total.

This event was arranged by our Club Secretary Ray Calboutin.

November 2014 "North Tyneside Council" held a "Customer 1st" exhibition at Whitley Bay Library, 5 members manned the stand for us.

This event was attended to raise the profile of our club to the men of the coastal area offering them our weekly meetings and social events.

Pictured left to right are Stewart Lewis, Ray Calboutin, Peter Harris, Pict 2 John Taylor & Peter Harris (Joe Mason was the 5th member).

2013 our annual Christmas lunch this year was on the 18th December at "The Killingworth Arms" attended by a total of 26 members with their wives.

This event was arranged by our Club Secretary Ray Calboutin.