Meeting records

Did you miss a Meeting?

Reports and supporting material are available for most of our monthly meetings going back to January 2017.

A file of all meeting records prior to 2017 is also available.
View meetings archive 2010-16

11th April 2022

Farming and Wildlife in County Clare

Ray Woods

Describing the wildlife of the limestone country in County Clare, western Ireland and the challenges it currently faces

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14th March 2022

Radio Caroline – When Pirates Ruled the Waves

Brian Cullen

Brian takes us on a journey back to the 60’s with original pictures and audio from the UK’s first offshore commercial radio station.

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13th December 2021

Directing the BBC’s ‘Antiques Roadshow’

Mike Jackson

The Sunday evening programme has always attracted a large audience and is one of the longest running factual series on British television. Mike offers insights into how the programme ...

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8th November 2021

Passports, Assassins, Traitors and Spies

Martin Lloyd

Martin presents three contrasting stories exploring the role that passports have played in history taken from his book 'The Passport, the History of Man's Most Travelled Document'

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11th October 2021

Glyn Houston: A Black and White Actor

Dean Powell

A welcome return by Dean to tell us the rags to riches story of a Rhondda valley boy who became one of Britain’s most popular actors of television and film.

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9th March 2020

Whodunnits

Geraint Davies

A talk on the origins and evolution of the crime novel by the author of Welsh detective novels.

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10th February 2020

Uncovering past lives from dusty documents

Gavin Hooson

In this talk, Gavin will show how the most unpromising looking documents will still have information about the lives of ordinary people who have lived in Mid Wales before us ...

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13th January 2020

Titus Salt Junior and his Son on the Grand Tour

Nicholas Salt

The village of Saltaire was built around the middle of the 19th century by Sir Titus Salt, a philanthropist and leading industrialist in the Yorkshire woollen industry. Today’s talk by ...

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9th December 2019

Special Christmas Programme and U3A Christmas Lunch

our local u3a groups

Special home brew entertainment followed by our annual Christmas lunch. A report of the meeting by Clive Barrett is available to download.

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11th November 2019

Music before the Microchip

Hugh Parry

A reminder of how our parents, grandparents used to listen to recorded music.

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14th October 2019

The King’s DNA. Richard III – from Car Park to Cathedral

Rhian Morgan

Telling the story of the discovery and identification of the skeleton in the car park.

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9th September 2019

The Rolls Royce Story

Bruce Lawson

The story of Charles Rolls, his early life in Wales and his role in establishing the legendary marque.

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