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Last Updated: 26 May 23, adminA
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Exploring London June Walk – Maida Vale & Little Venice
The June walk will be led by Sue Miller. Maida Vale is one of the prettiest and most picturesque areas of London, home of red-brick mansion blocks from the Victorian and Edwardian eras and elegant neoclassical stucco mansions with tree lined avenues.
None of this existed until 200 years ago, woods and fields had long occupied the stretch of land north of Paddington, but the area had no name of its own.
Then a battle changed everything. When, in 1806, the British troops inflicted a burning humiliation on the Napoleonic army at Maida — a small Calabrian town few Italians would be able to pick out on a map — a patriotic pub on Edgware Road named itself The Hero of Maida, in homage to commander Sir John Stuart. As houses began to creep in on the surrounding pasture, the name stuck and Maida Vale was born.
This is a 3.5 mile flat linear walk finishing at Warwick Avenue Tube Station.
If you wish to apply for this walk, please email Bernard at Coordinator after 9.00 on 1st June 2023 with a maximum of 4 persons per application. Please give your full names and U3A numbers and preferred date.
Remember if you apply for others, you are responsible for passing on messages.
If you have any queries regarding this walk, please contact Bernard via Coordinator. Late applications will be accepted.
Last updated: 26 May 23, AdminA
Post expires at 11:59pm on Saturday July 1st, 2023
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The August AGM will be held on 7th August, during the Monthly Meeting, at Box Moor Playhouse in Hemel Hempstead. Click here for more details.
Last updated: 24 May, AdminM
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Explore London – A Gentleman’s London – St James’s.
Thursday 25 May and Wednesday 31 May 2023
If you wish to apply for this walk, please email the coordinator via the group page after 09.00 on 1 May 2023 with a maximum of 4 persons per application. Remember if you apply for others, you are responsible for passing on messages. Please give your full names and U3A numbers and preferred date. If you have any queries regarding this walk please contact Susan via Coordinator
A list of names and further walk details will be emailed a few days later.
I am hoping that there will still be some Coronation decorations for us to admire, so I do hope you can join us.
Last updated – 30 April 2023, AdminA
Post expires at 11:59pm on Wednesday June 7th, 2023
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Chris Truran joined the Metropolitan Police in 1975. He trained as a Scenes of Crimes Officer (SOCO) and worked in central, north and north west London. During his 38 years he examined over 25,000 crime scenes ranging from Shop-lifting to Murder. When he started examining crime scenes, DNA was in its embryonic stage.
He will talk about the development of fingerprints at the beginning of the 20th century up to the first crime solved using DNA. He covers the first criminals convicted by fingerprints, the Brighton Bombing, Lockerbie, the Tsunami, James Hanratty and DNA from a daughter that solved a 30 year old murder by her father.
No fee to be paid
The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, Please check the Group News Email for the link.
Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups)
Directions
Boxmoor Playhouse
72 St John’s Rd
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1NP
Parking round the Moor OR 55 – 57 Park Road, HP1 1JS
500 bus from Berkhamsted Town Hall to St John’s Church, walk 10 minutes
Buses are every 30 minutes: 21 and 51 past the hour, return 10 to and 20 past the hour, but check
Last Updated: 6 Apr 23, adminA
Post expires at 11:59pm on Friday June 30th, 2023
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(1) Polesden Lacey (National Trust) Wed 17th May 2023
Cost £32.25 Per Person, includes Coach, Entrance & Drivers Tip. NT Members £19.00 Per Person, includes Coach & Drivers Tip.
House
Edwardian country retreat of socialite, Margaret Greville. Home to her extensive collection of paintings, ceramics and fine French furniture.
Gardens
Highlights include exceptional views, the walled rose garden, herbaceous border,
More information https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/surrey/polesden-lacey#place-facilities
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(2) Clacton Tue 14th June 2023
PLEASE NOTE CLACTON DATE HAS CHANGED FROM MONDAY 12TH JUNE TO WEDNESDAY 14TH JUNE
Clacton on sea, Essex. Wed 14th June 2023
Cost £22.00 Per Person, includes Coach & Drivers Tip.
Clacton has a lovely clean sandy beach with palm trees and is a great place to visit… Lots of attraction and places to eat and buy fish and chips and ice cream.
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(3) RHS. Wisley Gardens Tue 18th July 2023
Cost £31.95 Per Person, includes Coach, Entrance & Drivers Tip. RHS Members £18.00 Per Person, includes Coach & Drivers Tip.
Visit the Mixed Borders or Glasshouse Borders during summer and you’ll be sure to get plenty of inspiration (and maybe a little envious).
And a visit wouldn’t be complete without stepping inside the spectacular Glasshouse, where you can take a journey around the world in plants.
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(4) Worthing Wed 16th August 2023
Cost £20.00 Per Person, includes Coach & Drivers Tip.
A great place to relax and visit the pier.
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(5) Cambridge City Centre Tue 19th Sept 2023
Cost £19.00 Per Person, includes Coach & Drivers Tip.
Visit the famous old colleges, the site of the Old Cavendish laboratory, where 29 Nobel prizes were won.
Visit the 16th century Eagle Pub where airmen used to gather in WWII
Marvel at the grandeur of King’s College Chapel, which has become the symbol of Cambridge
Visit St. Benet’s Church, which dates from the 11th-century and is the oldest church in the county
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Please Note You should make a risk assessment for yourself as some venues are uneven and with steps, steep slopes etc. .
The wearing of face coverings has now ceased to be a legal requirement. The wearing of a face covering is therefore completely discretionary. However, given that the virus has not gone away, you may consider it prudent, as an act of charity and in the interests of the Common Good, to still wear a face covering as invariably you will come into contact with some people you do not normally meet.
Please bring a face covering with you, as some of the venues we visit still require you to wear face coverings inside.
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Booking details
You are NOT booked on a trip until I receive your cheques, Please book early, seats are booked first come first served basis
Please book with the following details.
Telephone Number, Email Address, Each passenger’s Membership Number, full name, & pick up point (TRING 9:30AM, BERKHAMSTED 9:40AM, GADEBRIDGE P&R 10AM OR HEMEL OLD BUS STATION 10:10AM, we leave venue 4pm to return home).
Please send a separate SAE. and cheque made out to “U3A DACORUM” for EACH trip
To Mr. L. Howard 25 Crackley Meadow, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 7SQ.
For more information on trips please phone Lionel on 01442 266011 or
email plumberdad@gmail.com
Tickets are sent out in your S.A.E. when there are sufficient seats sold to run the trip.
Please book early to avoid disappointment.
For more information on trips please phone or Email Coordinator
Last updated: 3 Mar 23, AdminA
Post expires at 11:59pm on Saturday September 30th, 2023
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The new Constitution was formally adopted at the SGM on 6th December 2021.
414 votes were cast by proxy of which 382 were in favour, and 9 postal votes were cast of which 8 were in favour. In total 390 of 423 votes (92%) were in favour.
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A draft Equality and Diversity policy has been posted for comment by all members.
It can be found under the Policies and Documents tab.
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Even though the major threat from Zoom seems to be passing on, a few groups are still using Zoom, either for the entire meeting or as a “hybrid” meeting, i.e. some members physically in the venue, others at home, to allow “less mobile” members to attend.
We now have two U3A Dacorum Zoom Accounts set up. (Zoom 1 & Zoom 2)
It is intended to assist all U3A coordinators to setup a Zoom video conference, or U3A Dacorum members to Join a Zoom meeting when invited by a Coordinator.
Last updated: 16 Mar 23, AdminA
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