It’s always a pleasure to learn about lesser-known artists, writes Gill Crooks. The Art Appreciation group held a fascinating session on Joseph Wright of Derby, a prolific 18th‑century painter of contemporary scientific discoveries, sympathetic portraits and landscapes exploring the representation of light. Rosemary Hobbs gave an excellent presentation on Wright to complement the video we […]
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A view from the wings
Our speaker in February had many amusing tales to tell after a working life behind the scenes in the theatre, writes Charmian Corner February’s monthly meeting was enlivened by a talk from Brian Freeland, who gave us a true ‘insider’ view of the theatre. Among other people, he worked with the ageing Crazy Gang, with jugglers, […]
When farming began in Surrey
David Draper reports from the Archaeology group’s recent meeting Frank Pemberton, one of the founder members of our Archaeology group and himself a distinguished archaeologist, fascinated us with a talk on Neolithic and Bronze Age farming. Providing us with an extensive reading list and copies of some books he had used for his talk, Frank […]
Letter from the chairman
Tight-budded daffodils are in the shops for trivial sums, bursting into flower within hours at home, and there is – intermittently – a feeling that spring is nearly here. This regeneration effect is also making itself felt in our U3A. We have new groups in the planning stage, people coming forward for some of the […]
Covering all the angles
We’ve opened a gallery page for our new group of photographers (Photography 2) where you can see some of their work. The group meets on the second Tuesday of the month in the afternoon in the Narnia Room at the Old House pub in West Street and their next meeting is on 14 March. They took […]