Grace Filby

Presenter: Ms Grace Filby

Company/organisation: Designs for Wellbeing

Email address: grace@relax-well.co.uk

Website: www.relax-well.co.uk

Phone number: 01737 217013

Address:
1 Howard Road
Reigate
Surrey
RH2 7JE

Last Modified: 09 April 2010

Description: (1) 'CHURCHILL'S SECRET REIGATE' - ancient caves in the sandstone and a WW2 subterranean Battle HQ secretly mined into the chalk of the North Downs. Unpublished research featuring Sir Winston Churchill, General Montgomery, General Eisenhower,described by the Borough Conservation Officer as "an important subject". Science and maths potential for school and college activities at all Key Stage levels. For an online summary and DVD of a key illustrated lecture see www.reigatehistory.co.uk/churchill.htm

(2) A Churchill Fellow's international search for PHAGE THERAPY (2007 - Republic of Georgia, Poland, USA, Canada, UK and visiting scientists). See travel blog at www.amazingphage.info

(3) BOWELS AND BULLETS - in 1929 a top surgeon saved the life of a little girl with "gangrene medicine discovered during the war (WW1)", fresh air, sunlight etc.. A century on, in this post-antibiotic age this common sense science is showing its great worth after all.

Type of presentation: Talk/Lecture

Duration of presentation/timings: up to 1 hour

Subjects covered:
Life processes and living things
Physical processes
Citizenship
Personal Social / Health Education

Counties covered: Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex

Regions covered:

Audience types: Adults, Families, Professionals, Students

Group size: 2-200

Special education needs catered for: Yes

Space/facility/venue requirements: Facilities required for Powerpoint presentation and mini-videos; 2 table tops required for artefacts

Level of experience: Present occasionally

CRB checked or Disclosure Scotland: Yes

Science & Engineering Ambassador: Yes

Booking details: by telephone

Free: No

Charge details (if applicable): by arrangement

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Reviews:

- Mike Jozefiak - "Grace's talk about the secret WW2 war rooms deep in the Reigate chalk hills, was clear, articulate and very well put together. Accompanied by wartime maps showing Winston Churchill's bunker layouts, photographs showing some of the surrounding views of old bunker entries, together with anecdotal evidence from the daughter of the policeman guarding the gate to Churchill's house, Grace's talk made a wonderfully entertaining evening for everyone, old and young. To add icing on the cake of phage therapy, on which Grace briefly touched, in the audience was the lady whose life was saved in 1929, probably by a phage preparation administered by a pioneering surgeon who was later appointed by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II." A most entertaining evening, even for non-Reigations!"

- Barrie Singleton - Grace Filby's talk, on January 30th 2010, was a revelation regarding the strategic defence and communications role of the Reigate area in WW2. The talk spanned a wide variety of science and engineering disciplines, in a lively, light and entertaining way, including metal corrosion, the ENIGMA code machine, interpretation of aerial photographs, local geology, WW2 medicine, ventilation, mining and dynamite. I can highly recommended Grace Filby as a speaker; she holds her audience with a delightful mix of content and personality. I look forward to owning a copy of the DVD.

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