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Stafford U3A |
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This is an open meeting for all members on the first Wednesday of every month at 14.00
A guest speaker is followed by a few announcements about forthcoming activities. The group then breaks up for informal conversation, tea, coffee and biscuits. Previous speakers have included David Tideswell talking on how to attract birds to the garden and Melina Hancox from Staffordshire Witness and Victim Support Team. |
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2011/2012 Programme
Wednesday 5 October Peter Slack, a hill farmer, on his encounters with ramblers and visitors in a talk entitled "I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am" Wednesday 2 November Jean Monares, dressed as a factory inspector in 1910, inspecting the Gladstone Pottery Wednesday 7 December Christmas programme by The Crooked Bawbees - a Northumbrian bagpipe and fiddle and keyboard group led by Gordon Greenley. Between the sets of folk music members will play, they will talk about the origins of the pipes and the history behind the music they play. They encourage participation so this should be a lively event to end the year. Wednesday 4 January Roger Oldfield, the local author of "Outrage:The Edalji Five and the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes". Roger covers the brutal animal outrages in Great Wyrley in 1903, the conviction of George Edalji and the campaign of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to clear George's name. Wednesday 1 February Kevin Reynolds - an illustrated talk entitled "Dispelling the Myths: an introduction to Bats:the life of bats in Staffordshire, the UK and elsewhere in the world and Conservation issues" Wednesday 7 March AGM a speaker will give a short talk about the work done by volunteers in the Staffordshire Search and rescue Team. Voluntary collection at the end. |