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Gardening Group Visit to Fernhill Coach House Garden
Fernhill Coach House is set amongst a delightful collection of old stone buildings surrounded by flower meadows and its own one acre garden....
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All Day Birding Trip to St Bees Head
Thursday, 16 May saw 9 intrepid members of the ‘All Day Birding’ group set off for the wilds of West Cumbria to visit the seabird colony at St Bees Head,…
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National Online Quiz
Four members of our Online Quiz Group took part again in the monthly National Online Quiz. This takes place on the last Wednesday evening in the month. The Quiz, organised…
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Lancaster Monthly Meeting: May 2024
The subject of this fascinating talk, the Middlesborough Meteorite, not likely to be known to most members, was made even more accessible by Martin’s dynamic presentation,
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Morecambe Monthly Meeting: May 2024
Our speaker, Paul Atherton gave a talk entitled: ‘The Origins of the Arab – Israeli Conflict. The British in Palestine 1945-48’ Paul’s outstanding talk, accompanied by slides further illuminating the…
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Gardening Group Visit to Treales, near Kirkham.
On 14th May 22 of us visited the Japanese themed garden of Mrs Linda Kidd in the village of Treales, near Kirkham. Linda has made the garden over the last 10…
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Exploring Low Carb -Getting to Grips with Sweeteners
Maintaining steady blood sugar and low insulin are essential for everyone – and for those of us exploring the Real Food Low Carb path to good health, cutting out table…
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Lancaster and Morecambe u3a Online Quiz Team
As has now become a regular monthly event, we entered the inter-u3a online quiz hosted by Ayr on the last Wednesday of April. Fifteen teams entered, including 2 from the…
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Environment Matters - May 2024
At our May meeting some members shared a summary of their very enjoyable visit to Backbottom in the beautiful valley of Roeburndale. They had a guided tour of the farm…
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Architecture Group
Visit to the Midland Hotel 24 April 2024 One of the many pleasures for members of the Architecture Appreciation group is having a subject of interest nearby and so it…
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Lancaster Monthly Meeting: April 24
April 2024: ‘What Have Volcanoes Ever done For Us’? – Chris Freeman Chris started his talk to the large gathering of members with an anecdote from his time in the…
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Torrisholme Monthly Meeting: April
April 2024: ‘The RNLI on the Lancashire Coast’ – a talk by Ian Butter, Chairman of Blackpool Lifeboat Station, This talk came highly recommended to members and it certainly lived…
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Gardening Group Visit to Myerscough College, April 2024
Myerscough College Twenty nine of us ventured to the college on an awful day. It had rained all night and morning but did finally clear up as we arrived, although…
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Lancaster Monthly Meeting: March
March 2024: ‘Art Forgery – the sincerest form of robbery’ Frank Vigon Many members in the large audience at the Dukes had heard some of Frank’s talks in the past,…
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Torrisholme Monthly Meeting: March
March 2024: ‘Custer, Sitting Bull and the Little Bighorn Campaign, 1876’ A good crowd gathered in Torrisholme to hear the speaker, Martin Alexander. Originally a Royal Lancaster Grammar School boy,…