Monthly Meeting Speaker Programme

Monthly meetings for all members of Chorleywood u3a take place on the fourth Wednesday of the month in the War Memorial Hall on Common Road, WD3 5LN from 2:30pm until 4pm.  Click here for a map – the Hall is adjacent to Betjeman Gardens and there is a car-park opposite.

The table below shows the guest speaker for each meeting, along with the title of the talk.  

Date Speaker Title
24th January 2024 Jim Stebbings The Topsy Turvy World of Gilbert and Sullivan
28th February 2024 David Pibworth From Hancock to Dad’s Army – The History of British Sit Com.
27th March 2024 Mike Barbakoff The WWII History of Bletchley Park
24th April 2024 Mark Lewis The World of Art Deco
22nd May 2024 Paul Barwick Alexander Litvinenko – The Spy who solved his own Murder
26th June 2024 Tony Eaton The Curious Disappearance of Major Glenn Miller
24th July 2024 Tony Earle 40 Years at Kodak
28th August 2024 Charlie Haylock Charlie and the Dig
25th September 2024 Lucy Allen Highs and Lows of a Stuntswoman’s Life
23th October 2024 Andy Strange WW2 Airfields in the East of England
27th November 2024 Murray Craig Sheep over London Bridge
December Christmas Theme
22nd January  2025 Keith Forster National Arboretum
26th February 2025 Graham Short My Life as a Micro-Artist

26th March 2025

Pauline Martindale Behind Closed Doors – The Life of a Prison Officer

23rd April 2025

Fabian Hiscock A Victorian Farmer; The Diaries of John White of Rickmansworth

28th May 2025

Bobby Darbyshire A Beginning, A Muddle and an End: Where do Novelists get their Ideas from?

25th June 2025

Colin Brown RNLI – It’s not All at Sea

23rd July 2025

Andrew Davies St Pancras and Friends: a journey through London’s stations