Monthly Meetings
Biggar and District u3a Monthly Meetings
All monthly open meetings will take place on the last Thursday of the month from September to April at 2pm at Biggar Bowling Club, Edinburgh Road. The club is accessed by a lane opposite the new housing at Pentland Reach and has a good sized car park.
Each meeting includes a talk on an interesting subject, followed by hot drinks and socialising.
The speaker for April is Bill Buchan who will be telling us all about “Hunting the King” - herring fishing in the North East 1900-1960.
Bill was brought up in Peterhead, a fishing community. All his family were fishermen. But this was not for him, he served his apprenticeship as an engineer, before becoming a Methodist minister, had a spell in industry as a Personnel Director before moving to the Church of Scotland and becoming the minister at Kilwinning Abbey until his retirement in 2001. Bill came to Biggar in 2018.
This is the meetings schedule for 2023-24:
| 28th September 2023 | Phylip de la Maziere (Lanark’s Town Crier) | A History of the Role of the Town Crier |
| 26th October 2023 | Stuart McKay (Symington) | Biggar Men’s Shed |
| 30th November 2023 | Charlie and Jude (Muirkirk) | St Andrews Afternoon - music and dance and demos from Thankerton Ceilidh Dance Class |
| 25th January 2024 | Burns Afternoon with speakers, music and bannocks | |
| 29th February 2024 | Jim Ness (Biggar) | The History of Biggar High Street |
| 28th March 2024 | Michael Shannon (Carmichael) | Damn Delicious |
| 25th April 2024 | Bill Buchan (Biggar) | “Hunting the King” Herring fishing in the North East 1900-60 |
PLEASE NOTE THE DATES FOR THE NOVEMBER, FEBRUARY AND MARCH MEETINGS ARE NOT AS ORIGINALLY ADVERTISED - OUR APOLOGIES FOR THE ERROR
Non members are welcome to attend up to two meetings to help them decide whether or not to join.
Please see our News page for reports about past meetings