The May Monthly Meeting will take place on 16th May 2024 at the Assembly Room. It will immediately follow the Annual General Meeting which will start at 2 pm. Tea and coffee will be served from 1.15 pm until 1.45 pm and the AGM will start at 2pm.
Our speaker for the monthly meeting will be Paul Whittle and his talk is titled “The Malta Story” 
This a return visit for Paul, this time to tell the story of Malta, endlessly invaded over the centuries and one of the most bombed places on the planet. As Chichester is now twinned with Valletta this should be of interest to everyone.
Paul’s interests are many and varied. He is a keen military historian, and has visited the battlefields of the Crimean War, the American Civil War in Virginia, the Russian Eastern Front and the French Maginot Line defences. He also has an interest in heritage transport, Paul is Vice-Chairman of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society. In late 2018 he appeared in the Quest TV documentary series ‘How Trains Changed the World’. He is also a member of several UK steam heritage railways and the Wey and Arun Canal Trust.
His charitable activities include being President of an Epsom-based community club for the blind and partially sighted.