Details of the first three Surrey U3A Network study days for the coming year have been announced. On Friday 17 February there’s a double bill, with a morning session entitled ‘My Life in Crime’ led by former Old Bailey judge Richard Hawkins, and Surrey poet John Griffin taking over in the afternoon with ‘My Life […]
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Jazz Meets the Blues
A history of the blues, through recordings and as performed by speaker Mike Head, kept members entertained at our November monthly meeting, writes John Holder Mike Head, an experienced speaker and musician from Weybridge, illustrated his talk by playing recordings of 11 American blues artists, all of whom had a major influence on British jazz and R&B performers. […]
Archaeology group meeting
The group’s October meeting explored life in these parts before the British Isles first left Europe and in Roman times in London and Yorkshire, as Pat Smith reports ‘German Bight, Fisher, Dogger…’ Most people will recognise these as shipping forecast areas around the UK. But how many realise that the word Dogger takes them back to […]
Winning limerick line revealed
The Last Line of a Limerick competition was one of the highlights of the open day and attracted more than 30 entries, writes Judy Perry The Creative Writing group realised that watching a few U3A members sitting writing would not prove very exciting, so they decided it would be more interesting to get the rest of […]
Pictures from our Open Day
We held an open day at the Christian Centre today (Wednesday) to mark our 25th anniversary. There were displays and demonstrations from as many as 25 groups and a gratifying response from the many visitors who were new the the U3A. [new_royalslider id=”12″] Photos by Robert Edmondson