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Due to timing, our principal guest, Bob ‘The Cat’ Bevan then
entertained us with many stories of his working life, sporting
prowess, and the fact that he is (now) married to one of the dancers
from Pan’s People. Bob is listed as one of Britain’s funniest after
dinner speakers having turned professional in 1980, regaling
audiences about his first love - playing amateur football, closely
followed by all forms of cricket at which he was allegedly a demon
bowler. Also he was President of Kent CCC in 2014. Bob concluded
with the toast to the “Immortal Memory of the Club”.

With normal service being resumed after Bob left, it was the turn of the venerable
Boys of the Old Brigade in their scarlet jackets to bring the Joseph Atto Punchbowl to
the President’s table and take wine. (Just a reminder for those new members – Joseph
Atto bequeathed £1000 to the PBC on his death in 1918 to cover the costs of the annual
toast known as ‘The Toast of Prosperity to the Pickwick Bicycle Club’.

There followed a special presentation of a recently discovered Club trophy. The replica
Winkle’s Challenge Golf Cup had been discovered by the family of the recipient - Mr
Grundy (aka J A Wilding)- in 1927. Our own Mr Brooks had, with his usual timing
negotiated the princely sum of £50 to secure it for the club. The President duly
presented it to Club Golf Secretary - Smithers.