Garden Group visit: West Green House, The Opera Garden – May 18th.
On Thursday May 18th the Garden group will be going to
West Green House, The Opera Garden.
Leaving Weston Turville at 12.15pm.
The visit includes entry, introductory talk of the the garden and refreshments. West Green House gardens offers four seasons of beauty contrast and inspiration. Created by garden designer and writer Marylyn Abbot. It is one of England’s finest manor house gardens.
Total cost for N.T. Members £26.00 – Non member £34.00
Contact Gaynor Edwards gardens@wtu3a.org.uk
Extreme Revisit – Aquatic Hovercraft – 18th July
By popular demand from those that joined the WT U3A more recently, we have started working on the logistics for a return to Highcross Hovercraft in Sharnford for a re-run of our 2014 event. To raise the bar, this trip will include “over water” instruction for those that graduate from the land based training.
£30.00 per pilot; cheques payable to “Weston Turville U3A (Travel)” by March General Meeting.
See full details at Hover Revisit
Weston Turville U3A Newsletter – March 2017
Weston Turville U3A Newsletter – March 2017
Summarised by Mandi as containing ‘A request for help and new Extreme, Churches, Gardens and Building visits and important information about membership!
This is rather an understatement as it is packed with information which I’ll not summarise here just Open full Newsletter and ‘read all about it.
Extreme Visits – Axe Throwing & Music Hall Tour
OK, admit it, you never thought we’d descend to this, and to combine it with a music hall tour?! The Extreme Group aims to provide unusual opportunities to:-
- Learn a diverse set of new skills ranging from sushi and Pizza making; Krav Maga; piloting a hovercraft; control a skid; Clay Pigeon Shooting; hunting for fossils in Milton Keynes; bell ringing, day time astronomy, BloKarting, Scuba Diving, Gliding, Ice Sculpting, Juggling, Axe Throwing or even lock picking.
- Experience activities or places you may not wish to visit alone or feel might be age-inappropriate, such as, visiting “the IceBar”; a bell foundry, a day at the races, A Segway Trail, Slotcar Racing, explore Street Art or competing in a simulated 24 hour Nurburgring endurance race event
- Challenge your limits with events such as Ice Karting, climbing over the O2, White Water Rafting, Abseil the Spinnaker, Ride Zipwire Velocity (the fastest in the World)
Upcoming WT U3A Local History Group Meetings
WT U3A Local History Group Meetings from March to September 2017
Below is an update to the schedule for the talks and visits of the Local History Group. The schedule takes us up to end of August and I am working on talks for September, October and November. Please note that there is no meeting in June but two in July. I have arranged for a visit to the Aylesbury Museum Archives in Halton and the best date they have is Monday 3rd July. I hope that there is sufficient variety of topics that you will find interesting.
Tuesday 28th March 2017
Barry Tomlinson has agreed to give us a talk on “The History of RAE Bedford”.
Construction of RAE Bedford began in 1947 with wind tunnels for testing up to Mach 5 and new airfield. Many of the well known aircraft, including Tornado, Jaguar & Harrier Jump Jet, as well as helicopters were tested at RAE Bedford. It has thus played an important part in our aircraft history and is a fascinating story.
Meeting is in the WT Chapel Room from 10:30 – 12:30pm. Entrance of £3.
Tuesday 25th April 2017
Hugh Grainger has agreed to give us a talk entitled “Wild, Wild Women”. read more …
March – Food Appreciation – The Highwayman, Berkhamsted
This month we are heading to The Highwayman in Berkhamsted. We are proposing to book for lunchtime on Friday 24th March.
Please let me know if you would like to join us and if so I will need to have your menu preferences. Here are links to both the event details and menu.
Best wishes Pam Wilson (foodappreciation@wtu3a.org.uk)
Weston Turville U3A Newsletter – February 2017
OK, so I was on holiday and this didn’t get published – ‘though you should have had it delivered by e-mail or post here is the full text for the delectation of future generations to marvel at our activities!
Local History Group – Meetings Schedule February 2017
Glynn White has drawn up a descriptive schedule for the next few Local History meetings listed and detailed below
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28th February | Royal Observer Corps Early Warning Bunker that existed in Weston Turville |
| 28th March | “The History of RAE Bedford” | |
| 25th April | “Wild, Wild Women” | |
| 23rd May | The History of Grafton Regis | |
| 27th June | Visit Aylesbury Museum Archives – Halton | |
| 25th July | Visit to Grafton Regis | |
| 22nd August | No Meeting |
For full details click here
Science & Technology – A New Year
A very lucid description of the inner workings of Global Positioning Systems by Damian Campbell in January got the Science & Technology group off to a great start for 2017.
To follow that – a difficult task – are these taking us up to July:
| * February 2nd – ‘The Early History of Photography’ by Gareth Evans who was an employee of Kodak. | |
| * March 3rd – visit the ‘Energy from Waste’ plant at Greatmoor (10k from Waddesdon) – Please note that there will be a certain amount of stair climbing and we are required to be kitted in their safety equipment. | |
| * April 6th – we will be taking A ‘paper trail’ in Hemel Hempstead. | |
| * May 4th – visit the Amazon automated warehouse facility. | |
| * June 1st – tentative plans to visit Chatham Docks. | |
| * July 6th – a talk on ‘The Four Minute Warning’. |
If you are interested in any of the trips or learning more about the S&T meetings please contact John Beer by e-Mail (science@wtu3a.org.uk) or at a U3A meeting.
