Bank Notes 26th October

Bob Welch writes

In his talk which was both informative and amusing Chis Leather told us of the German Nazi Government's plan to try and destabilize the British economy by forging and then releasing millions of pounds worth of British Bank Notes.He explained in detail how they went about organising this, how they recruited people with the relevant skills, including criminal forgers from prisons. He explained the lengths that they had to go to to get the right sort of paper, ink etc. It was not an easy job but in they end they succeeded and many millions of notes were released, manly for the purchase of gold, jewels etc of for payments of bribes to agents and contacts in other countries. By the end of the War most of the participants managed to escape from Nazi control and went on with their lives as before the War. One Officer was executed for War Crimes but the last actual forger didn't die until January 2017. Chris had with him examples of the forged notes which were interesting in themselves. A good talk.

Cheshire Landowners 28th September

Our Chairman Doug Haynes started our new season by giving the first talk on 'Cheshire Landowners through the ages'.