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Exploring London – 20th and 22nd October ’26 – Lissom Grove
Monthly Meeting – Monday 5 October 2026
Exploring London – 30th September and 2nd October 2026 – Queen’s Park and Kensal Green
Box Moor Trust Festival Sunday 20th September
u3aDacorum Facebook Page
Monthly Meeting – Monday 7 September 2026
2026 AGM – Monday 3 August 2026
Minibus Hire for Day Trips
Cancelled Groups
Web Conferencing using Zoom


Last Updated: 8 Sep ’26

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Exploring London – 20th and 22nd October ’26 – Lissom Grove

Exploring London, Tuesday 20th and Thursday 22nd October

October Walk: Lissom Grove

The walk will start outside Baker Street Station and end at Paddington. This is NOT a walk all about trains, so relax! It will be mainly through the area known as Lisson Grove (which is recorded as Lilestone in the Domesday Book) and at the end concentrates on the Paddington Basin (on a spur of the Grand Union Canal).

If you have any queries regarding this walk, please contact Tony via Coordinator.

Last updated: 22 Sep ’26

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Exploring London – 30th September and 2nd October 2026 – Queen’s Park and Kensal Green

Exploring London Group – Queen’s Park and Kensal Green – Wednesday September 30th and Friday October 2nd

As GK Chesterton wrote:-  For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen. Before we go to paradise, by way of Kensal Green.
Kensal Green being the site of the first and grandest of The Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London. There are indeed fine things to be seen in the area, I can’t comment on the news as they keep changing it.
We will start with a walk exploring the history of Queen’s Park and its current position as the trendiest area in London. I have heard it described as the likely offspring of a union between Primrose Hill and Notting Hill. It is particularly known for the number of media personnel. From BBC correspondents to documentary makers via actors and singers and the odd ‘celebrity’.
It boasts not just one but two famous Italian restaurants. One praised by Giles Coren and the other being better known as the star in a television advert, The Queen in the title is of course Victoria.
The Park started out as an agricultural show ground. Usual details, around 2 hours in duration and 2.5 miles in length. As it is our side of the city then I am aiming for a slightly earlier start of 11.00.

 

Please use the following link to checkout the Exploring London Webpage: https://u3adacorum.org/?page_id=1168 

If you have any queries please contact Bernard via Coordinator

Last updated – 22 Sep ’26

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Monthly Meeting – Monday 7 September 2026

   

Codebreaking
Northchurch Social Centre, Berkhamsted

MONDAY 7 September, 10:00 REFRESHMENTS,

10.30 PRESENTATION

doors open 09:45

About eight years ago, after a career in international IT and Management Consultancy, Mike became a volunteer at Bletchley Park, having attended as a visitor for perhaps ten years previously as a visitor.  Mike serves as a volunteer Guide at the BP heritage museum and also demonstrates the Turing-Welchman Bombe and Enigma codebreaking at the National Museum of Computing. In 2024, Mike Barbakoff entertained us with his presentation about The Women of Bletchley Park. He now presents “Codebreaking against the Land of the Rising Sun”. This talk embraces the inception of the UK/USA Special Relationship and highlights the Signals Intelligence activities of the United Kingdom and United States against Japan in the Second World War.  It covers the efforts of Bletchley Park and its overseas outstations as well as the enormous contribution of the Unites States Navy and Army, Australia and New Zealand SIGINT operations. Failures such as Pearl Harbor and successes such as the Battle of Midway are used to illustrate the effectiveness of Signals Intelligence No fee to be paid Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups) The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, use the link that will be supplied in the Group News closer to the date. If you experience difficulty with the sound, turning on Captions, at the bottom of the Zoom screen on a PC or by clicking on More … on an iPad, should assist greatly. Please bear in mind that the task of getting both sound and picture to members on Zoom is fraught with difficulties. We continue to struggle on, it may not always be totally successful No fee to be paid Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups) The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, use the link that will be supplied in the Group News closer to the date. If you experience difficulty with the sound, turning on Captions, at the bottom of the Zoom screen on a PC or by clicking on More … on an iPad, should assist greatly. Directions

Northchurch Social Centre Bell Lane, Northchurch Berkhamsted HP4 3RD There is parking at the centre. Please double park! Directions Buses between Hemel and Berkhamsted: 500  and X500 bus. Buses are approximately every 30 minutes: 500 and X500 Timetable See Northchurch Map Last updated: 8 Aug ’26

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Group Cancellations

We are sorry to say that the following groups have been cancelled, for various reasons.
If you would like to re-start the group, please contact the Groups Secretary
You do not need to run the group by yourself, often someone is willing to help.

A Cappella (147)
Belleplates (062)
Board Games (070 and 212)
Bowls (006)
Creative Writing A (077)
Computer Support (069)
French and Fun (015)
French Conversation (014)
Garden Appreciation (016)
Geology 1 and 2 (021 and 184)
Line Dancing (022)
Music Appreciation (034)
News (Have Your Say) (362)
Painting Unlimited (09)
Painting for You (196)
Playing early Music (043)
Recorder Ensemble (148)
Scalextric (365)
Sign Language (227 and 189)
Short Day Trips (186)
Shorter Walks A & B (050)
Sunday Scrabble (055)
Swimming Berkhamsted (226) But see Swimming (221) ex HH
Ukulele 2 (192)
Whist (091)

Last Updated 24 Jul ’26

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