My guest today on One 2 Three was Diane Matthews of Brentwood a Becket Rotary Club
Diane Matthews
The Club was chartered in 1980, sponsored by The Rotary Club of Brentwood and The Rotary Club of Shenfield and Hutton. It started with 26 founder members, meeting on Monday evenings, initially at the Coffee Pot Restaurant and soon after, at the Post House Hotel in Brentwood.
The formation of the club was part of a trend in Rotary in the late 1970’s to establish evening clubs to cater for the changing nature of business, and for those who worked out of the area and could not attend meetings at lunch time.
The name of the club, Brentwood à Becket, is a reflection of Brentwood’s early history as a stopover for pilgrims as they journeyed between Canterbury and the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Thomas à Becket was martyred in Canterbury and Brentwood now contains the ruins of a chapel dedicated to him and founded by one of the abbots of St. Osyths
You can hear our chat again here –
[audio:https://www.phoenixfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Diane-Matthews.mp3|titles=Diane Matthews]Brentwood A Becket are always looking for new members. If you would like to get in touch with them, these are the contact details –
Meeting Place: Marygreen Manor Hotel
Location: London Road, Brentwood, Essex
Date/Time: Mondays 7:15 for 7:45 pm
Telephone: 44 (0)1277 225252
Website: https://brentwood-a-becket.org.uk/
e-mail: enquiries@brentwood-a-becket.org.uk
If you would like more information about the Brentwood half marathon, details here –
