Probus Club of Bobbin Head
General Meeting
When: Monday 13th October 2025 from 10.00am to 12.00pm
Where: Turramurra Bowling Club, Bobbin Head Road, North Turramurra
Guest Speaker Diana Noyce
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A PUB WITH NO BEER: COFFEE PALACES IN AUSTRALIA
Diana Noyce is an Australian historian who has been researching and teaching food history and culture for many years. She holds a Master’s degree in Gastronomy. From Oxford to Antarctica, she has presented talks and lectures on subjects as diverse as Food and War, Railway food, Polar food to the fine food served on the Titanic, and the culinary habits of dictators and Charles Darwin.
The term “coffee houses” was primarily used in Australia to describe the temperance hotels which were built in the latter part of the 19th century. They were majestic hotels that did not serve alcohol, built in response to the temperance movement. The life of coffee palaces was relatively short-lived but was very much part of Australia’s cultural landscape. This talk discusses the rise and demise of coffee palaces associated with the temperance movement, a movement also of cultural significance.
Book Club
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Book club meetings: Jane Dale 02 9487 6642
Pymble Golf Club 11:00am
Friday 10/10/2025 Keeper of Stories by Sally Page
Friday 7/11/2025 The Frozen River by Ariel Lawson
6th October and 3rd November
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Come along and join in with your fellow members and friends for morning tea at Hornsby RSL Club at 4 High Street Hornsby at 10:00am.
The Hornsby RSL Club opens at 10:00am. We meet in the Courtyard dining area.
Pay for your own everything. John Hunter 0417 658 849
Probus Social Walk
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North Head
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Waterfall at Collin’s Flat Beach Manly.
Monday. October 20th.
Meet Turramurra for the 8.35 train to Wynyard, change for Circular Quay.
Wharf 3 for 9.30 ferry to Manly. Then bus North Head.
We will walk around the new lookouts and have morning tea. Then walk to North Fort Precinct and continue through the bush to the Parade Ground and out on to the road and down Collin’s Flat Road to Collin’s Flat Beach. The Collins Flat Beach area is a more challenging 500 metre walk than we usually do. Several uneven rock steps up and down. A couple with railings and a couple without. It is a bush track with uneven rock/sandy paths. We will take slowly. Then on regular paths through the park of the remains of the old gas works to Little Manly Point for lunch. We continue on to Little Manly Beach and up the hill to get the bus into Manly for coffee or gelato and ferry home.
Please bring snacks, lunch and as it’s getting warmer more water to drink.
Register at the meeting. email [email protected].
Text 0417 278 044. Sue Fairclough Walks Coordinator.
Entertainment Group
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Entertainment Diary Update: October 2025
Live at Lunch Concert –
Concourse Chatswood -Tickets $45.65
October 22, 2025:
Cantabile! Songs for Baritone, Flute, Guitar & Violin - 18 people will be attending this concert. Tickets will be distributed on October 13.
November 26, 2025:
Meditations on Australia – Rainforest, Desert, Sand and Sea
Payment deadline: October 20. Ticket distribution: Nov 10
Beloved Australian actor/ singer/song writer Drew Forsyth is joined by cellist Susan Blake, flautist Jane Rutter, Lachlan Youll on the didgeridoo and special guest Terence Clarke on the piano. The program celebrates our country with music and poetry drawn from the entire Australian continent. This is the final concert on the 2025 program.
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Pymble Players Productions – Zenith Theatre Chatswood
November 01: The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race – Tickets $25.50 each
Thirty-five people will be attending this performance, which is the Player’s final production for this year. Tickets will be distributed on October 13, 2025.
Their 2026 program will be launched in mid-October and we hope to have details in the next newsletter.
For more information call Rhoda on 0424 480 964 or Mentie on 0407 945 038
Two tickets available for the Appleton Ladies Potato Race
The Chapmans can’t attend the performance on November 01 at the Zenith Theatre. If you would like to take over their tickets, please call Rob on 0427 215 236
Loose Enders Coffee Group
J. J.’s – ST IVES VILLAGE
SUNDAY 19th OCTOBER 2025
10.00 A.M.
Anyone is welcome to come along for coffee, tea, cake and a chat! We have a group of regular attendees but there is always room for more!
As I book the tables in advance, please let me know if you would like to come along.
LOOSE ENDERS has now extended to LOOSE LUNCHERS!
(Decide on the day if you would like to stay on for lunch).
Photography Interest Groups
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Photo: Merv Rosen Winner “Weather Photography” Camera Group |
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Photo: Jill Armstrong Winner “Weather Photography” Smartphone Croup |
Congratulations to the winners of our September photography competitions for “Weather Photography”. Jill Armstrong in the Smartphone Group and Merv Rosen in the Camera Group.
During our meetings in October, both groups will be presenting, assessing and improving each members’ photo for entry into the “Photograph of the Year” Competition which will take place on 30 October during our Trivia Dinner.
Session details as follows:
SmartPhone Group:
Date/Time: Thursday 9 October 2025, 3.15pm at the Turramurra Bowling Club. Please send your entries to me by Monday 6 October.
Camera Group:
Date/Time: Thursday 23 October 2025, 3.15pm at the Turramurra Bowling Club. Please send your entries to me by Monday 20 October.
New members always welcome. For more information contact:
Dennis Cowell 0438 534 824 Email [email protected]
Dinner and Trivia attheBowling Club |
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6.00pm Thursday 30 October 2025
at the Turramurra Bowling Club
Our three Trivia Nights so far have proved very popular. Join us for an enjoyable dinner and then, after your meal, join up with other members to form a team for a fun session of Trivia Questions to see which team is the smartest! Don’t worry if you don’t think you know a lot – you are certain to remember a lot more than you realise. If you can’t, someone in your team probably will.
Extra: During the evening, as happened last year, there will be an opportunity to cast your vote for the “Photograph of the Year” as submitted by members of our Photography Groups.
Pay for your own meals and drinks. However, for catering purposes
please register by Thursday 23 October by contacting:
Ros Tyler – 0417 904 630
Photo Gallery from our Bellingen Trip
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