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(Annual General Meeting) + Fish & Chips Ipswich Group Wednesday 11th August 2021 at 6.30pm “The Hut” Felixstowe Promenade IP11 7LR This is your chance to attend the most important meeting of the year, praise or criticise the outgoing committee and elect your new committee. You will have the opportunity to ask questions on the reports given after enjoying your Fish & Chips with a quiz, to end the evening.

The opinions and recommendations in this newsletter are those of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of Boundless by CSMA, the editor or the Ipswich Group. Any member of the Boundless by CSMA Club can stand for election as: - Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, or committee member of the Ipswich group. All you need is one member, or you can propose yourself. Please send completed proposal forms to the secretary before Sunday 8th August please. Remember: You must not nominate a person without their permission. Please copy the form below if nominating more than 1 person.

CSMA Club Ipswich Group Committee Nomination for 2021. I nominate ...... ……...... for the post of: - Chairman/Treasurer/Secretary/Committee Member. Please delete all but one post

Proposed by ………………...... …………………… I agree to stand for the nominated post ……………...... …...... Please return completed forms to Dave Gibson by Sunday 8th August 2021.

Page 2 of 8 Wednesday 11th August From 6.30pm

This will be the first time we have got together as a Group "in the flesh" so to speak, so we are holding a special "Fish and Chip" supper evening at "The Hut" on the promenade at Felixstowe. This venue has a big airy room and we can have the doors open to the sea for extra ventilation, and even eat outside on the terrace if the weather is reasonable. This should make the event as Covid-secure as it could be. As it is our first meeting for over a year, we will also hold the formal Group AGM at the same time. Finally, we should be able to fit in a short Quiz, as an incentive to keep the AGM short. As the meals have to be pre-ordered, booking is essential through any of the committee, see contact details on page 7! Final date for booking is Sunday 8th August We are pleased to bring you this evening for only £3 Per Person. We are providing the Fish & Chips, followed by Tea/Coffee and a cupcake. But, please remember to bring your own drinks. So, place your booking, mark the date in your diary and we look forward to seeing on the 11th.

Page 3 of 8 Friday 13th August at 7pm

Tonight, we are joined by Emma Sanders, from Magpas, who will talk about who they are and what they do. Please obtain your login details from Paul, by emailing [email protected] Please note! You may join the proceedings from 6.45pm.

Saturday 31st July 1.45 for 2pm Join us for this visit to Engine farm which holds a large collection of farming related artefacts including a steam engine, vintage cars, commercial vehicles, motor cycles and army vehicles. Displays of ephemera and all kinds of paraphernalia. Owner Gordon Easton is very entertaining and informative in his presentation. Location 134 Wisbech Rd, Coates, PE7 2DT.

Booking Essential! Car parking available. Donations of at least £2.50 towards MIND please Page 4 of 8 (How Nazi spies lost the Battle of Britain) On Friday 9th July 2021, the Ipswich and Peterborough Groups held another zoom meeting entitled “Secrets and Spies”. The talk was given by Graham Randall who is the chair of Bawdsey Radar Group Trustees. Graham began his talk by telling us a bit of the history leading up to WWII with respect to UK tracking the wireless transmissions from airships and their direction-finding experiments. The apparent openness about UK secrets by the W H Smith publication of ` Secret - Reflection of radar beams` and the 1937 Civil Services list of names for Bawdsey Research Station together with picture post cards of Bawdsey showing the radar towers all which were made available to the German Embassy. On the brink of WWII the huge airship Graff Zeppelin crossed the north sea on a daring spy mission to try and identify what the network of towers being erected along the UK coastline all the way to Scotland. Fighter Command had no doubt what they had come for. The German General Wolfgang Martini, who was largely responsible for promoting early radar development together with the top Luftwaffe`s wireless experts, was on board the Graff Zeppelin with all their detection equipment looking for evidence of British radar and found nothing of importance. Exactly why the Germans intelligence failed to recognise the importance of radar and destroy it before the Battle of Britain has been an enduring mystery. The Germans did indeed have radar but no long range for detecting attacking forces because they were going to be the attacking force. Another facet is the failure by Hermann Goring, Martini and top aids to inform Hitler of any unsuccessful operations which could have had a direct effect on Hitler’s decision making.

Page 5 of 8 The Chain Home as it became known was the top secrete radar network designed by Robert Watson Watt and Arnold Wilkins on which Britain`s very survival depended. Air Chief Marshall Dowding was quick to recognise the potential radar. As the attacking Luftwaffe was being met by the RAF on nearly every attack and sustaining heavy losses, the German wireless experts were surely now unravelling all the secretes. The Chain Home network gave the RAF the ability to have longer rest periods between flights making them better prepared for any attack which would then decide the future Battle of Britain. Graham told us about the incredible tale of bluff, deception and sweet irony that was to change the course of history. A talk well worth listening to.

Wednesday 29th September 2.30pm performance The Norwich Group have reserved 20 seats for the 2.30pm performance on Wednesday 29th September 2021. Seats are in a block of ten each in rows F and G. The summer show, always very popular, includes comedian Tucker who we saw during a visit some years ago. The discounted price will be £22.00 per person, normally they would be £25.00 per person. The Cromer Pier Theatre will be adapted to all Covid safety requirements in place at the time of the performance, as stated on their website. Please contact Josie Lockwood, Norwich Group Committee, by email: [email protected], or telephone 07714517815 or 01394285206, to reserve your place now. Payment will be required by no later than mid-August, details of how to pay will be advised at time of booking. Further information is available on the website see cromerpier.co.uk

Page 6 of 8 Ipswich Group Communications Page For up-to-date information on forthcoming Ipswich Group events see: - The latest edition of your Newsletter “The Suffolk Traveller” or our homepage at - boundless.co.uk/ipswich Your Ipswich Group Committee Secretary Dave Gibson 01473 252868 24, St Edmund's Road, Ipswich, IP1 3RD e-mail [email protected] Chairman John Mills 01473 233257 Treasurer Paul Whiting Committee Pete Richards 01473 659806 Ron Willett 01473 725082 Editor Bob Thomas 01394 285206 1, St Mary’s Close, Trimley St Mary, Felixstowe, IP11 0TY e-mail [email protected] Please send change of address details to Dave Gibson, & articles for inclusion in the next edition to Bob Thomas by Mon 16th August

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Page 7 of 8 MISSING LINKS 7 Each clue consists of three words which have the fourth word in common. You must find the missing link. For example: Bald - Eyed - Golden, are all linked by word Eagle as in Bald Eagle - Eagle Eyed - Golden Eagle. 1. Blind – Check – Weak 2. Card – Mobile – Photograph 3. Beetle – Party – Hand 4. Demand – Kings – Note 5. Cleaner – Dream – Tail 6. Down – Low – Out 7. Banana – Personality – Screen 8. Black – Diving – Neckless 9. Cell – Fibre – Sciatic 10. Buried – Chest – Hunt The types are: -

Beanie cloche Cowboy mortar board

Panama baseball bucket pork pie hat

Breton pillbox homburg hard hat

Trapper top floppy

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