Events
St Barbara's Church Hall meetings are held at 2.00 pm
Photos for the GALLERY from any group visit would be appreciated. Please upload these via emailing coventryu3a@yahoo.com
| Dates for your Diary | ||
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| April 2024 | ||
| Mon Apr 22nd →Fri Apr 26th | Holiday | Holiday to Liverpool See Holidays group page for details. 5 days, 4 nights at the Liverpool Atlantic Hotel £399 |
| Mon Apr 29th | Photography | Subject - A selection of photographs based on one colour of your choice. |
| May 2024 | ||
| Wed May 1st | Meeting | Sue Tonks You Be The Judge Sue has been a magistrate for over 18 years and she will share with us some insights into the world of magistracy. We will have an opportunity to experince being a judge. A fun and practical afternoon with everyone taking part in the story and judgement. |
| Tue May 7th | Art Appreciation | Trip to Derby Art Gallery DE1 1BS and Kedleston Hall DE22 5JD (NT) cost £24 |
| Sat May 11th | Theatre | trip to Abba Voyage. now full |
| Tue May 14th | Theatre | Foyer Belgrade theatre 10.30am |
| Wed May 15th | Meeting | Paul Wilkins Tracing Your Family Tree Pauls talk will be for both beginners and people with more experience in how to trace your family tree. |
| Thu May 16th | Gardening | Trip to RHS Wisley GU23 6QB Cost £31 note :-Departure at 7:45am from Fairfax Street and 8am From the War Memorial Park. |
| Thu May 16th | Ladies International Dining | Venue to be annouinced |
| June 2024 | ||
| Tue Jun 4th | Art Appreciation | Trip to Manchester Art Gallery M2 3JL and Whitworth Art Gallery M15 6ER cost £34 Note:- Departure will be at 7:45am from Fairfax Street and 8am From the War Memorial Park. |
| Wed Jun 5th | Meeting | AGM FOLLOWED BY Frankie Lassut Bufffet of Wellbeing Frankies wellbeing talk is around the importance of feeling good and the law of attraction. |
| Tue Jun 18th | Theatre | Foyer Belgrade theatre 10.30am |
| Thu Jun 27th | Gardening | Trip to Whitehouse Farm Ingarsby Leics LE7 9JD & Mountain Ash Newtown Linford Leics LE6 0RJ (inc tea and cake at both) cost £39 |
| July 2024 | ||
| Wed Jul 3rd | Meeting | Jenny Mallin A grandmother’s legacy: the early days An ancestor of Jennys Benjamin Hardy, a 7th generation weaver from Yorkshire, sails to Madras in 1798 with the British Army, after 22 yrs in the country he decides to settle his family there. |
| Tue Jul 16th | Theatre | foyer Belgrade theatre 10.30am |
| Thu Jul 18th | Ladies International Dining | Venue to be announced |
| Thu Jul 25th | Gardening | Trip to Waterperry Gardens Oxfordshire OX33 1JZ cost £33 |
| August 2024 | ||
| Wed Aug 7th | Meeting | 7th Roy Smart Wallis Simpson and the Abdication Crisis. Roys talk has an uncanny relevance to current ‘Royal’ news and events. The subject of his talk captured forever the world’s attention and imagination. This concerns the life of American Wallis Simpson - yes Wallis and Edward, not Meghan and Harry - (although the parallels are remarkable) - and her role in the extraordinary constitutional crisis in a year that saw Britain and the Empire have three monarchs as we moved inexorably towards the second World War. |
| Thu Aug 22nd | Gardening | Trip to Honeytrees Tropical leics NG13 0EG & 5 Burton Lane Whatton Notts NG13 0EQ (inc tea and cake at both) cost £38 |
| September 2024 | ||
| Mon Sep 2nd | Holiday | 5 day (4 night) holiday to Suffolk - Warner hotel in the Corton Coastal village. See flyer in the News or Holiday page |
| Wed Sep 4th | Meeting | Emilie Lauren Jones The History of Chatterbox Magazine Emilie was Coventrys first Poet Laureate. She has worked at Chatterbox so will be telling us its history etc. |
| Wed Sep 18th | Meeting | John Butterworth Meeting The Queen At The Palace John tells us about the day he met the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and what he did to earn the MBE for services to journalism and charities. |
| Thu Sep 19th | Gardening | Trip to Brockamin Callow End Worcs WR2 4TQ & Ravelin Hanley Castle Worcs WR8 0AS (inc tea and cake at both) Cost £38 |
| Thu Sep 19th | Ladies International Dining | Venue to be announced |
| October 2024 | ||
| Wed Oct 2nd | Meeting | David G P Morse How a Starfish Ended up in Offchurch in WW2 To do its bit to save Coventry. The site of a fire based bombing decoy site from the Second World War known as a Starfish site. Night time fires were created to confuse enemy aircraft and draw them away from their real target. |
| Wed Oct 16th | Meeting | Ruth Lowe Other Designers of the 1960s The third of Ruths fascinating talks. She tells us of the other designers working on Kings Road and Carnaby Street through the 1960s |
| Thu Oct 17th | Gardening | Trip to Sudeley Castle & Gardens Gloucs GL54 5JD Cost £41 All trips apart from May 16th (RHS Wisley) and June 4th (Manchester Art Gallery) will Depart at 8:45am from Fairfax Street and 9am from War Memorial Park. Departures on May 16th and June 4th will be at 7:45am from Fairfax Street and 8am From the War Memorial Park. |
| November 2024 | ||
| Wed Nov 6th | Meeting | David Templeman The Road to Fotheringhay-Mary, Queen of Scots Final Journey The second part of the captivity culminates in the dramatic series of events leading up to and including Mary’s trial and execution. Mary’s courage and conduct come to the fore as she takes her tragic story through Wingfield Manor, Tutbury Castle, Chartley Manor, Tixall and culminating in the climax at Fotheringhay castle where she is tried and executed for High Treason. Was she guilty? That is the question this talk addresses. |
| Wed Nov 20th | Meeting | 20th Susan Drage Recycling With A Difference Susan won`t be telling us what rubbish to put in the blue bin, far more interesting and entertaining is what can be made from the rubbish. Susan will bring a range of things that she has made from items we throw in the blue bin. She turns them into handbags , necklaces, earrings and purses, to name a few. |
| December 2024 | ||
| Wed Dec 4th | Meeting | Anything Goes Xmas Party After a lovely afternoon in October 2022, when Maura and the ensemble played for us. They are back to give us some Christmas cheer. |