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Thanks for visiting us online, if you're in the Grimsby area and have an active interest in egyptology then please get in touch via email on: nige-d-smith 'a t" ntlworld dot com Our website of the past two years has disappeared so we're back with the previous site which is a bit easier to manage and update after meetings and when new info becomes available. Below is a record of what we got upto a while back, some interesting events with a few good speakers. In november of 2007 we had Joyce Filer and Charlotte Booth over in Grimsby for an afternoon & they gave us a couple of really good lectures. For the 2006 main event we had Joanne Fletcher and her partner for an afternoon where we found out all about mysterious mummies, one in particular!! We meet up most months on the third thursday, 8.00pm usually at the Hotel Elizabeth on Littlecoates Road near the Trawl public house / Grimsby golf club. Everone's welcome to the meetings, you don't have to pay annual subs if you're a guest but the hotel like us to cough up a pound a piece to pay the electric bill. We usually hold a raffle. Subs for members are £7.50 There may be one or two dead links and obsolete contacts etc. Plese bear with us as we have a spring clean. The highlight of our meeting on march 31st was a debriefing by Graham Charles of his recent visit to Egypt with his brother. They stayed at Luxor using it as a base to visit the nearby temples and museums also taking in a flight to Giza. Graham remarked on how inexpensive it is over there at the moment with an exchange rate of about 12 Egyptian pounds to one English pound. He brought back some souvenir notebooks etc. for raffle prizes which made a topical addition to the fine grill pack from Maltby's butcher shop which was taken home by Val Cox. We welcomed Trish and Roger who had previously not been able to get to any of our meetings. With Steve not now having access to his ex-works laptop projector we couldn't put on a slide show but we are exploring ways to remedy this for future meetings. We started the proceedings for this year with a night at the Navy Club in Cleethorpes on thursday 17th feb. Our chairman set out the schedule for the year ahead: March 5th Saturday Egypt Exploration society & MAES study day. 'Excavations in Egypt and the Sudan' March 31st Thursday Social evening - 8.00 Cleethorpes Navy Club April 16TH & 17TH Reading University - 'Test of time' Full weekend lectures £85 + £30/night accommodation David Rohl - New Chronology in Full. May 12th Thursday Social evening - 8.00 Cleethorpes Navy Club June 4th Saturday AEMES - 'Urartu pert II' - Debbie Miller, 'The Tomb of Osiris at Abydos' - Aiden Dodson June 23rd Thursday Social evening - 8.00 Cleethorpes Navy Club July Museum visit (Liverpool?) August 4th Thursday Social evening - 8.00 Cleethorpes Navy Club September 3rd Saturday AEMES 'Sphinxes' - Margaret Beaumont, 'Ptolemaic Alexandria, a beacon of culture' - Ron Abbot September 15th Thursday Social evening - 8.00 Cleethorpes Navy Club October 22nd probably noon til four Secrets of the great Pyramid - Alan F Alford Grimsby College Lecture. October 27th Thursday Social evening - 8.00 Cleethorpes Navy Club December 8th Thursday Social evening - 8.00 Cleethorpes Navy Club Our presentation day featuring David Rohl was a successful event attended by guests from the Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society at Horncastle, The Ancient World Society at Boston, our own members and other guests from around the counties. It was the coldest weekend of the year so far and this was noticed by the fact that the theatre heating had been left off by the caretaker, nevertheless, everyone was engrossed in the detail of David's lectures and much favourable feedback has been received. David and his wife Ditas were collected later in the evening and Steve and myself enjoyed further discussions with them over a good chinese meal. The second of September meeting at the R.A.F.A. Headquarters in Cleethorpes went well with strong advance ticket sales for the Presentation by DAVID ROHL on November 20th at the Franklin College, Grimsby. David Rohl is one of the biggest names on the lecture circuit with some interesting ideas on ancient history! He recently lectured at Reading University and has been published in the main sunday newspapers, several books and television programmes - Breakdown for the afternoon as follows: 1.00pm - 2.00pm Shishak & Shoshenk - a case of mistaken identity tea break 2.30pm - 3.30pm The Israelites in Egypt tea break 4.00pm - 5.00pm Egyptian Genesis Our chairman gave us all another teach-in on hieroglyphics & cartouches and we all had a good discussion on ways to publicise the presentation. An Egyptology, (WEA) course starts on 20th September at the Wellington Street Education Centre, Grimsby. Every Monday 7pm to 9pm for 10 weeks, full fee £36 and there are concessions. It is entitled 'Travellers Through an Ancient Landscape' and the tutor is Glenys Poorta. The course will look at some of the buildings and concepts that are part of Egypt's glorious past. Glenys, of course is an excellent tutor and speaks for the Ancient & Middle East Society, she is presenting there on the 4th September. The course should be very interesting and Glenys normally supplies excellent hand-outs. Further details can be obtained from our local WEA voluntary worker, Jose Hall or Derek Coates The visit to Bolton Museum in june which was hosted by their curator, Angela Thomas was a rare chance for the fifteen members who went to go down into the basement and enjoy priveliged viewing of archived items not on display to the public. These included such things as mummified fish, birds and human remains through textiles and shabtis, all the way down to minute frog and snake scarabs. The Egyptian section contained items from the pleistocene era through to Roman times. This NELEA visit to Bolton was fully as successful as our previous visit! We reviewed the trip with a good selection of photographs at our last evening school on july 15th at Highcliff, Cleethorpes which included a teach-in on translating hieroglyphics starting with some royal names. Lisa Bryant gave us a run down on her recent visit to Egypt and donated some genuine Egyptian statuetes for raffle prizes. As a result of an offer by our chairman to assist the Bolton Museum, we are looking forward to further visits to photograph and log more of their archived Egyptian collection some of which is still an unknown quantity and remains wrapped in packing tissue. Four members took the long trip to Reading University in april for a lecture by David Rohl on the Exodus and matters of related interest, we heard a report at the following social evening, plans are underway to secure David Rohl or another suitably qualified speaker to address a presentation later in the year.. Our march meeting enjoyed the hospitality at the Royal Airforce Association Headquarters on Highcliff, Cleethorpes, close to the site of where the old J.D.'s Nightclub is being redeveloped. Shown during the meeting were some 'never before seen in public' photographs of Egypt around the time of the second world war which were taken by Major Clixby-Fitzwilliams during his missions as a reconaissance pilot in a Supermarine Seafire (these were the aircraftcarrier-launched Spitfires used by the Navy) The main point noted was the infill of buildings near the Pyramids and the absence of some of the boat pits and a difficulty in spotting people standing around which would not be a problem today. We would like to thank Major Clixby-Fitzwilliams for allowing us to see these remarkable photographs. Our social evenings are planned as a learning experience and a varied selection of digital images presented by Steve, our chairman, gave the subject matter for a quiz, the winner was none other than our retired secretary Sheila Crask who got in first with the answer for the tie-breaker with Lisa Bryant and carried home a bottle of fine red wine. The raffle prize, a butcher's pack of various meats was claimed by Val Cox, one of our new members. Another daytrip to Horncastle on february 21st showed the AEMES group that we mean business with around half the audience made up of NELEA members and they all enjoyed the day including one or two of our newly signed up members. Our January social evening at the Wellow Hotel, Cleethorpes, had this website as it's main theme for the evening. Members were given a detailed run-down of the pages and links available and a briefing on how the site is built. The NELEA presentation "A trip down The Nile" was held at the Cleethorpes Library, on Thursday, 30th November, at 7.15 p.m. Our chairman has visited Egypt many times and gave this lecture as a taster to those who would like to go and a reminder to those who have already had the chance to visit Egypt. Our last visit to Horncastle was for a lecture by Sue Kirk, who is the Secretary at AEMES, and her subject was on BES, followed in the afternoon by Bob Partridge speaking on Fighting Pharaohs - weapons & warfare, If You're into Arabian dancing, also known as Belly-dancing then find out more here: The Middle Eastern Dance Studio orgasnised by Bayda of Latakia, Syria. Here's some shots of her team in action at their July 2003 Hafla. The page contains many photos and will take time to load. The August social evening on the fourteenth was held at The Wellow hotel which had good car parking, plenty of seating area and free use of their projector screen for Steve's powerpoint presentations. The screen was used to display pictures which Samantha and Steve had arranged as a quiz format - the winner received a prize donated by Samantha. A raffle was also held with some of the prizes offered by the members. The night went on late as usual with a committee meeting held afterwards to finalise some treasury business after the recent changeover. We are no longer using this venue.  The Ancient Egypt and Middle East Society (AEMES) Weekend was held on 10/11 May 2003 at Horncastle College, on Mareham Road. I managed to attend at the eleventh hour and the ....(read the full report!) The NELEA Presentation at the WELLOW HOTEL, CLEETHORPES "The Hidden Meaning In Egyptian Art" by our chairman Steve Johnson. on WEDNESDAY APRIL 23rd was a revealing insight into the translation of Ancient Egyptian drawings into something which a modern day viewer could understand. Judging by the riveted appearance of the audience, everyone was intrigued with the content of this particular lecture. Several new members joined on the evening. Our social evening at the Kings Royale on February 13th was a great night out for all who could make it on a frosty night in Cleethorpes, word of our association is spreading with more recruitment to build the membership numbers. The ARABIAN DELIGHTS CLUB DANCERS gave us a real treat with some lively Egyptian numbers and it seems they now have some enthusiastic followers in the N.E.L.E.A. Here's a taster for you:
 
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Our presentation evening on Thursday 19th September at the GRIMSBY CENTRAL LIBRARY on the subject of Egyptian Gods and Temples went smoothly. This was a joint presentation by Steve Johnson (chairman) and Debbie Rolph. Promotion and advertising by Sheila Crask. More new members joined our association on the night! 
The Presentation about the Valley Of The Kings by our Chairman, Steve Johnson, at The Cleethorpes Library was received very well by all in attendance and as our first public presentation was a milestone for our association. We would like to thank all for turning up and especially those who joined the association on the evening. Annual membership of the North East Lincolnshire Egyptology Association can be had for the very reasonable sum of £5.00 which includes a regular newsletter and a discount on admission to any NELEA presentation evening, dayschool visit or excursion where available.If you would like to discuss joining then please send us your contact details and we'll be in touch! Any current member is welcome to put forward ideas they have which would further enhance our set-up such as places to visit, articles for the newsletter or website, or hot info on news and discoveries in Egypt.
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