Delighted to be helping Basingstoke's Blue Space The Blue Space put on a Pool Social Event for those going through cancer.
Put May 23rd in your diary if interested.
A great day out for all the family, whether you're a keen motor buff or you just want an interesting and enjoyable Sunday.
Gareth was born in South Wales and ‘emigrated’ to Poole, Dorset, in the late 1940’s.
Educated at Poole Grammar School to ‘O’ level standard, he later attended Bournemouth Municipal College after a short period working for Barclays Bank. He took ‘A’ levels in pure, applied maths and physics and finished his formal education taking a BSc(Eng) degree at UNCW Bangor. The rest of his life as been spent learning about life on an informal basis.
In 1968 he joined the BBC as a Graduate Engineer, and has spent the working part of his life surviving the roller coaster world of broadcast enginering. He retired in 2009.
During this period he worked on a huge range of equipment from black and white 405 line pictures all the way through to full digital, multichannel broadcast systems.
In the ’90's whist at Sony Broadcast, he took the order for the turnkey broadcast system for the then nascent Sky company, followed by the start MTV channel in the UK. Following his time at Sony, he became Head of Projects at Central Television.
Through his life he has has a passionate interest in sound and pictures, and how we see and hear, and has spent the last few years digitising film and audio programs for clients.
For many years he was a Freemason in South Africa, and on return to the UK, he joined Basingstoke Deane Rotary Club in 2015.
Tue, May 24th 2022 7:30 pm
Rotary meeting
Further info on the speaker can be found at ccll.org.uk
Tue, May 31st 2022 7:30 pm
Andy is a great speaker and last time a number of members were scared to go on the local rowing lake
Thu, Jun 2nd 2022 7:30 pm
Rotary Council meeting
Tue, Jun 7th 2022 7:30 pm
Festival of Transport stuff
Tue, Jun 14th 2022 7:30 pm
Rotary meeting
We meet on Tuesdays at 1900 for 1930hrs
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