EVENTS
Our monthly meetings are held in the Camden Centre, Market Square usually starting at 2.30pm, but members need to arrive before then. The Camden Centre has a hearing loop for the benefit of members who wear hearing aids. For a location map and satellite view of Market Square click Market Square Map. Members have an opportunity to socialise over refreshments following the speaker.
We have an active Outings Committee that runs about 10 outings per year. Details of forthcoming events are featured in our monthly newsletter and application forms for the outings can usually be found at the end of the newsletter.
We have an active Outings Committee that runs about 10 outings per year. Details of forthcoming events are featured in our monthly newsletter and application forms for the outings can usually be found at the end of the newsletter.
Please note that due to the Government's Advice on the Coronavirus outbreak, no Monthly Meetings are currently taking place at the Camden Centre. Please see here for latest news on Keeping in Touch.
Virtual talks and walks have been arranged and are shown below. They are on Zoom. The talks are free and the walks cost £5 each. If you haven't yet joined the groups, please email Sue Brimlow to join. Talks start at 2.30pm whilst walks/tours vary between morning and afternoon.
October 2020
7th (Wed) Virtual walk - Secret Gardens of London and the Royal Parks at 11am Cost £5
15th (Thurs) Virtual talk - John Griffiths-Colby – Staff Nurse Emily Connell was a remarkable woman; hailing from Bootle and having enrolled in the Territorial Force Nursing Service in 1908, she was appointed as Staff Nurse at 3rd Western General Hospital in Cardiff when war broke out in 1914. As well as serving there throughout the First World War, she kept an autograph book in which her patients drew and wrote messages.
20th (Tues) Virtual walk - Bankside and Shakespeare's London at 3pm Cost £5
November 2020
5th (Thurs) Virtual talk - Nick Dobson will give an informative, but good fun “Tour of Elizabethan London".
10th (Tues) Virtual walk - National Portrait Gallery Stuarts and Hanovers at 2pm Cost £5
19th (Thurs) Virtual talk - Antonia Gallop will give her postponed talk on ‘Across India on a motorcycle’.
24th (Tues) Virtual walk - Cotswolds - as a change from London we will be exploring some of the enchanting villages and views in the Cotswolds at 2pm. Cost £5
December 2020
3rd (Thurs) Virtual talk - Anna Spender, Collections and Assets Manager at Tunbridge Wells Museum, will give the fascinating history of the ‘Georgian Court Dress’. We are raising funds to go towards its conservation.
17th (Thurs) Virtual talk by Pete Allen ‘Oh No It Isn’t: A History of Pantomime’ What is it about Pantomime that attracts us to this strange concoction of fairy tales, dance, jokes, songs and cross-dressing? And what is it really like to play the back end of a Pantomime Cow? All this, and the answer to whether something really is behind you will be answered in this festive talk about what has become one of the great British Christmas traditions.
Forthcoming Events for Your Diary - All Subject to Confirmation and Government Guidance
(Dates for the 2020 Outings are now listed on the Outing News page. Also see the Short Breaks & Holidays page.
To be rescheduled - BBQ at the Nevill Golf Club
To be rescheduled - Afternoon Tea and Board Games
To be rescheduled - Quiz Night
To be rescheduled - Barn Dance
To be rescheduled - Hop Picking in Kent Seminar
Not likely this year - U3A Christmas Lunch by ticket
Virtual talks and walks have been arranged and are shown below. They are on Zoom. The talks are free and the walks cost £5 each. If you haven't yet joined the groups, please email Sue Brimlow to join. Talks start at 2.30pm whilst walks/tours vary between morning and afternoon.
October 2020
7th (Wed) Virtual walk - Secret Gardens of London and the Royal Parks at 11am Cost £5
15th (Thurs) Virtual talk - John Griffiths-Colby – Staff Nurse Emily Connell was a remarkable woman; hailing from Bootle and having enrolled in the Territorial Force Nursing Service in 1908, she was appointed as Staff Nurse at 3rd Western General Hospital in Cardiff when war broke out in 1914. As well as serving there throughout the First World War, she kept an autograph book in which her patients drew and wrote messages.
20th (Tues) Virtual walk - Bankside and Shakespeare's London at 3pm Cost £5
November 2020
5th (Thurs) Virtual talk - Nick Dobson will give an informative, but good fun “Tour of Elizabethan London".
10th (Tues) Virtual walk - National Portrait Gallery Stuarts and Hanovers at 2pm Cost £5
19th (Thurs) Virtual talk - Antonia Gallop will give her postponed talk on ‘Across India on a motorcycle’.
24th (Tues) Virtual walk - Cotswolds - as a change from London we will be exploring some of the enchanting villages and views in the Cotswolds at 2pm. Cost £5
December 2020
3rd (Thurs) Virtual talk - Anna Spender, Collections and Assets Manager at Tunbridge Wells Museum, will give the fascinating history of the ‘Georgian Court Dress’. We are raising funds to go towards its conservation.
17th (Thurs) Virtual talk by Pete Allen ‘Oh No It Isn’t: A History of Pantomime’ What is it about Pantomime that attracts us to this strange concoction of fairy tales, dance, jokes, songs and cross-dressing? And what is it really like to play the back end of a Pantomime Cow? All this, and the answer to whether something really is behind you will be answered in this festive talk about what has become one of the great British Christmas traditions.
Forthcoming Events for Your Diary - All Subject to Confirmation and Government Guidance
(Dates for the 2020 Outings are now listed on the Outing News page. Also see the Short Breaks & Holidays page.
To be rescheduled - BBQ at the Nevill Golf Club
To be rescheduled - Afternoon Tea and Board Games
To be rescheduled - Quiz Night
To be rescheduled - Barn Dance
To be rescheduled - Hop Picking in Kent Seminar
Not likely this year - U3A Christmas Lunch by ticket