Summer Programme - Club Speaker - Jim Peat
Thu, Aug 3rd 2017 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
P.P. Jim Peat will Address the Club
H&R: Allan Scott & Malcolm Southern
VoT: Ian Carrol
At tonight's meeting of the Rotary Club of Motherwell and Wishaw, Pres. Andrew gave another of his “beyond the tea towel” talks, this week focussing on John Louden McAdam, of Tar McAdam fame. As with all Andrew’s talks, everything is not as it seems, as, while McAdam was a road builder of some expertise, and renown, his method did not include the use of tar! Edgar Hooley, a surveyor for Nottinghamshire County, patented the process of heating tar, adding slag to the mix and then breaking stones within the mixture to form a smooth road surface in 1902 and Nottingham's Radcliffe Road became the first tarmac road in the world. A five-mile stretch was given the tarmac treatment and proved itself by being long-lasting, dust and mud free.
P.P. Paul Begley gave the first ‘Pigeon Derby’ report of the season, in his usual style, and prizes were won by John Chapman, Roy Simpson and Ronnie Moore. The booby prize was presented to Ian St. John.
P.P. Jim Peat then gave tonight’s talk. When he gave his first ‘job talk’, in 1990, his catering kitchen design business was only six years old and Jim thought that, after seventeen years, he should give the members an update.
Jim Peat Design was the only independent catering design company in Britain, having been established in 1984, and Jim readily admitted that, initially, getting the business up and running was a very hard road. Advertising was not working and his big break came when British Car Auctions gave him the contact to fit out their Paddock Wood site, in Kent. From then on, 95% of business came from word of mouth referrals, building on his reputation.
As always, Jim entertained the Club with anecdotes of his experiences of designing kitchens for projects, large and small, from a $250M yacht for a Microsoft co-founder and the palace of the Crown Prince of a middle Eastern country, to participating in the fairly recent refurbishment of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Jim retired in 2011 and took great pleasure in his last job, a contract with Western Isles Council to re-fit their small primary schools, some of them, with only six to eight pupils, on the outer islands.
In addition to all this, Jim lectured, part-time, at some further education colleges. A busy man, indeed.
The vote of thanks was proposed by P.P. Ian Carrol
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