Category: Monthly Meeting
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u3a Creativity on Show in Many Ways!
Our Monthly Meeting on 26 November 2025 was our annual chance to demonstrate creativity in the many ways to be found in Kenton & District u3a. We had a variety of pieces from our Creative Writing Group. We started with a poem about a Sunday Night Performance by a singer with her band. We then…
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Proof Jaw Jaw is Better than War War
The speaker at our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 22 October 2025 was our own member Rob Kirk, who has had a distinguished career in television journalism. His talk was entitled “Jaw Jaw about War War”, and dealt with some of the less well know aspects of World War 1. It started with a relative of…
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Miraculous Medical Detection Dogs!
Our Monthly Meeting on 27 August 2025 turned out to be a very popular choice with our members as we had Natalie Ellison from Medical Detection Dogs (MDD) as our speaker. Natalie introduced MDD and said how proud they were to have HM Queen Camilla as their active patron. She then described that the purpose…
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Managing Premier League Soccer Teams
For our Monthly Meeting in July 2025, we were delighted to welcome David Pleat who it turned out was related to one of our members! Born in 1945, David had played football for England Schoolboys and for the England International Team. He began his playing career with his home team club – Nottingham Forest –…
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AGM and Summer Social Runs Smoothly!
On Wednesday 25 June 2025 we had our Annual General Meeting followed by a picnic held in the grounds surrounding the Masonic Centre in Northwick Circle. We started at 11:05am with the Apologies for Absence. The Minutes of the previous AGM were approved. There were no matters arising, so we moved on to the Chair’s…
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Elaine Samuels – Songs with Meaning
Our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 28 May 2025 featured singer and songwriter Elaine Samuels who appeared without her backing group Kindred Spirit. Elaine has been performing her own songs in clubs, at festivals (including Glastonbury) and even on television since the early 1990s. She progressed from only playing solo to performing in other line-ups, and…
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The East End – Hugenots to Bengalis
The Speaker at our Monthly Meeting on 23 April 2025, St George’s Day. was Howard Slater who spoke on the East End of London which has been home to a series of immigrants from different parts of the world. Howard was very much into celebrating the cultures and customs that the different groups have brought…
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Monthly Meeting Meets Man Who Was!
Our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 26 March 2025 had guest speaker Rachel Montagu, whose grandfather was famous in connection with the “Man Who Never Was”. Many of our members have seen the film of that title or read the book by Ewen Montagu, but this meeting was an opportunity to learn about the life of…
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Preston Road is part of Metroland
Our speaker at our Monthly Meeting on 26 February 2025 was our own member Chris who is also part of Preston Community Library. Please note that we are speaking of Preston between Wembley and Kenton rather than Preston in Lancashire! Image courtesy of Ordinance Survey 1914 Chris described how a quiet corner of Middlesex noted…
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Guided tour – Westminster & St James
On Wednesday 22 January 2025, our Monthly Meeting had a ‘virtual’ guided tour of Westminster and St James from Danny Hockman, a Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London. Danny had an abundance of photographs, which turned out to be essential given the number of sites to be seen between the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey,…