On Wednesday, 14 May, 7.00 pm at Quarterhouse, Folkestone, Major Gordon Corrigan will talk on The Hundred Years War. Always a lively speaker with a new angle, military historian Gordon Corrigan is certain to provide some fresh insights into this conflict. He will reveal the horrors of battle and the machinations of power that have shaped a millennium of Anglo-French relationships. It may sound far away but there are many uncanny echoes with our present world. Major Gordon Corrigan spent much of his service life with the Royal Gurkha Rifles. Tickets: Adult 7 Concessions 5 quarterhouse.co.uk/whats-on/a-great-and-glorious-adventure-gordon-corrigan1
This is part of my website The 'Gerald that I set up in a fury of excitement when we first moved here in approximately 2004. I'd been a frequent visitor for a few years before that but I am technically one of those DFLs you get nowadays. The site was a lot more dynamic with a calendar of events + voting for favourite venues and things, + I hear it was a useful reference for others who were thinking of moving to the area. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though only to Hythe) it doesn't get as much attention as it used to. Ironic really as The town is now becoming the exciting place we always thought it was just about to. I am not Gerald BTW, this comes from the name of a pretend newspaper in an episode of The Day Today or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, and how there is a local newspaper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are GRATE aren't they? Do contact me if you have anything to offer, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on the twitter.