Category: Monthly Meeting

 

Boxmoor Playhouse

MONDAY 3 October, 10:00 REFRESHMENTS,

10.30 AGM & PRESENTATION

doors open 09:45

Andrew taught in Grammar Schools for over 40 years and is the author of a best-selling book on Contemporary British Politics.  Andrew gives his audiences insights into the times through which they have lived with a sharp eye for detail and anecdote.  His incisive character portraits of many very different men and women at home and abroad whose extra ordinary lives have shaped today’s world, are uniformly vivid and compelling.  He looks, as well, at the huge social, cultural and attitudinal changes which have shaped today’s world and at many urgent and often controversial issues which divide us.

In 2024, Andrew dissected the Profumo Affair for us. The presentation was extremely well received. This year he talks about ‘The Second Elizabethan Age: Reliving our own Story’ which is a vivid pastiche of our many post-war social & cultural revolutions, the upheaval in values and the growth of a more permissive culture. Can you believe it?

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.

Directions

Boxmoor Playhouse
72 St John’s Rd
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1NP

Parking round the Moor   OR    55 – 57 Park Road, HP1 1JS

Directions

Buses between Hemel and Berkhamsted: 500  and X500 bus.
Buses are approximately every 30 minutes: Red Eagle Buses

Local buses running in St John’s Road past Boxmoor Playhouse

H10 https://www.intalink.org.uk/services/9e20e052-b756-4ff5-afeb-f0a0ce466e1c?date=2024-12-02&direction=outbound

H11 https://www.intalink.org.uk/services/9077ed51-eb28-40df-8838-8c69504b3299?date=2024-12-02&direction=outbound&all=on

Last updated: 8 Sep ’26

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Boxmoor Playhouse

MONDAY 6 July, 10:00 REFRESHMENTS,

10.30 PRESENTATION

doors open 09:45

Tricia Thompson is an experienced public speaker presenting lively, interesting and fun talks to groups of all sizes around the country.
The talk to be presented follows the spread of seaside holidays to all classes. It explores the iconic entertainments from the donkey rides on the sand to amusement arcades and buying pink rock to take home with you.
Most of the u3a members will remember these joys from their childhoods. More recently the British seaside holiday has meant Spain or Greece, and the local seaside resorts have been in something of a slump.

 

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.

Directions

Boxmoor Playhouse
72 St John’s Rd
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1NP

Parking round the Moor   OR    55 – 57 Park Road, HP1 1JS

The parking outside St John’s church now has a 3 hour limit and no return for 2 hours. This is to discourage commuters going to the station using it for all day parking. The three-hour limit works for our monthly meeting. Warning, there is someone who checks!

Directions

Buses between Hemel and Berkhamsted: 500  and X500 bus.
Buses are approximately every 30 minutes: 500 and X500 Timetable

Local buses running in St John’s Road past Boxmoor Playhouse

H10 https://www.intalink.org.uk/services/9e20e052-b756-4ff5-afeb-f0a0ce466e1c?date=2024-12-02&direction=outbound

H11 https://www.intalink.org.uk/services/9077ed51-eb28-40df-8838-8c69504b3299?date=2024-12-02&direction=outbound&all=on

See Hemel Map

Last Updated: 4 Jun ’26

Views: 262