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===Saturday 23rd April===
Members were invited to a talk at The Queen Hotel, by Trish Jones, entitled "The Voyages of the Sunbeam". This was organised by the "Thomas Brassey Society". Trish told the story of the 157ft yacht [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam_RYS_(1874) "Sunbeam"] (considered to be the most beautiful schooner in the world at the time) owned by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brassey,_1st_Earl_Brassey Lord Brassey] (Thomas Brassey's eldest son) and his wife Annie. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Brassey Annie Brassey], a keen photographer and anthropologist went on to write several highly popular books about their journeys. One particular global adventure they had was circumnavigation of the world with their family for eleven months which captured the imagination of the public at the time see: [https://archive.org/details/avoyageinsunbea00peargoog/page/n10/mode/2up?view=theater "A Voyage in the Sunbeam"].
===Tbursday 12th May===
Our guest speaker for this occasion was Mike Curtis who will gave a presentation on “The 1737 New Cut of the River Dee”. The Dee estuary is unusual in that comparatively little water occupies such a large river basin. To improve access to the port of Chester, a new cut was, after several false starts, made through the Saltney Marshes towards Flint. However, the river diverted its course bringing unintended, irrevocable and unforeseen consequences over time and the shifting of the navigable portion to the Welsh coast. With the cessation of barge-transport of Airbus wings along the Dee there is now effectively no commercial shipping on the Dee.
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