Rotary Club of Altrincham 

Founded 1929 – Member of Rotary International - District 1050         

www.altrinchamrotary.org.uk 

Past Presidents  

(F = Founder Member) 

1929-31  D. Stanley Morrison (F)

1931-32  Richard Hesketh (F)

1932-33  Alfred Bateman (F)

1933-34  Thomas Dykes

1934-35  Charles H. Syers

1935-36  John Malley

1936-37  George H. Podmore

1037-38  Edward J. Horley

1938-39  William Davidson

1939-40  Robert G. McEwan

1940-41  William T. Pallthorpe       

1941-42  Arthur Withington

1942-43 Richard W. R. Spelman

1943-44  Charles C. Sweet

1944-45  Alfred E. Willett

1945-46  Frederick Spink

1946-47  C. Frederick Shawcross

1947-48  T. Wilfred Mercer

1948-49  William H. Lord

1949-50  Reginald T. Ankers

1950-51  Norman A. Royle

1951-52  Edward H. Chorlton

1952-53  Walter Bateman           

1953-54  Christopher W. Fisher

1954-55  Harold Wright

1955-56  Clifford Pollard

1956-57  George E. Wood

1957-58  Basil D. Morrison

1958-59  Frank Spink M.B.E.

1959-60  Harold P. Rawlinson

1960-61  Frank Gibson O.B.E.

1961-62  Bryan R. Byrom

1962-63  William Lloyd

1963-64  John (Ian) L. Harris

1964-65  Phillip B. Mayer

1965-66  Frank S. Guest

1966-67  Geoffrey F. Earl

1967-68  John Derbyshire

1968-69  James P. Jackson

1969-70  Cecil Harrison

1970-71  E. Graham Thomas

1971-72  J. O. Deem

1972-73  William E. Dodd

1973-74  Alec Fleming

1974-75  Arthur Shaw

1975-76  Kenneth N. G. Bailey

1976-77  Kenneth Newton

1977-78  Joe Morley

1978-79  Noel Shuttleworth

1979-80  Gordon G. Lewis

1980-81  Peter T. C. Vickerman

1981-82  Arthur Bright

1982-83  Wilf Brocklebank

1983-84  Peter Batten

1984-85  Roy Bancroft

1985-86  Don Crawford

1986-87  Eric Pownall

1987-88  John Bowie

1988-89  Richard Wilcox

1989-90  Ian G. Allan

1990-91  Cyril P. Goldberg

1991-92  Monty Samuels

1992-93  Alan Hayhurst

1993-94  Brendan Bates

1994-95  Denis Morren

1995-96  Roy Doorbar

1996-97  Robert Curry

1997-98  Mike Maudsley

1998-99  John Edwards

1999-00  Brian Soper

2000-01  Andras Jonas

2001-02  Robert A. Strachan

2002-03  Roger Barlow

2003-04  Mike Lumb

2004-05  John C. Pilling

2005-06  Geoff Hayes

2006-07  Chris Boyes

Links to our monthly Club Bulletin are at the foot of this page.

The Past

The Rotary year runs from July 1 to June 30 and in 2004-05 we celebrated both Rotary International's Centennial and the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the club. At that time we produced a history of the club for our current and past members. If you are a former member of the club or related to a former member of the club (we have a full list of all past and current members if you are not sure) we would be happy to provide you with a copy.         

When the club was created there were 25 members and over the years more than 300 local people have enjoyed being a member. Our current longest serving member joined in 1947.

The inaugural meeting was held at the Bowdon Assembly Rooms (currently the location of the Cinnamon Club). The regular, weekly meetings were held at lunchtime each Monday at The Unicorn Hotel. Some time in 1958 the club moved to the Woodlands Hotel in Timperley for its weekly meetings and then in 1978 to The Cresta Court Hotel, Altrincham. In 1988 the time of the weekly meeting was changed to 7.30pm and this remains the meeting time today.   

Originally Rotary was a "business networking" organisation. Today it has evolved into "A Global Network of Community Volunteers" that is responsive to disaster relief requirements, local and international aid projects, and a provider of scholarships and other educational programmes around the world.      

Worldwide, Rotary clubs are organised into Districts and The Rotary Club of Altrincham is a member of District 1050. Each year each District elects a member to be its District Governor and over the years two of our members have held this office while others have served in some other capacity at District level.  

One thing that has not changed over the years is that our members come from a wide and varied number of backgrounds. However, in 1987, a change was forced on Rotary when the United States Supreme Court ruled, " that Rotary could not enforce male only membership."

The Present

Like many other organisations today, membership of a Rotary club is obtained "by invitation". But unlike many of these other organisations we are always on the lookout for members and by simply contacting us we can arrange for someone who is curious to find out what we do and who we are to come along to our meetings and discover it for themselves. 

A brief synopsis of what membership of Rotary can offer can be found on the Membership and Rotary International pages.

Our programme for the coming weeks can be viewed on the Programme page.

By clicking on the links below you can read our monthly club magazine. The necessary Adobe^® Reader^™ software can be downloaded, free of charge, by clicking on the Adobe^® button below:

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