Events
Monthly Open Meetings are held at Trinity Methodist Church, Davenport, Stockport, SK3 8TB. 1.45pm for 2.00pm.
You are welcome to attend one or two of these meetings as a visitor to meet members and group organisers, and to get a feel for what the U3A has to offer.
Members and visitors pay £1.50 to attend these meetings - this includes tea or coffee.
We are looking for 2 or 3 members to join our Book Group 1. We receive books from Stockport Libraries and our meetings take place in the homes of those in the Group. To find out more please send an email to Lillian Smith with your contact telephone number.
| Dates for your Diary | |
|---|---|
| Open meeting | |
| Wed Feb 5th | Gill Russell – Stranger in a strange land |
| Wed Mar 4th | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING |
| Wed Apr 1st | Paul Isherwood 10 years a Buff Butler in the Chic of Cheek. |
| Wed May 6th | Sarah Lionheart – Orangutangs in Borneo. |
| Wed Jun 3rd | Fools Gold – An afternoon of Acoustic Music. |
| Wed Jul 1st | Sue Stern – The child who spoke with her eyes. |
| Wed Aug 5th | Brian Greene – Irvin Berlin – a man for all seasons |
| Wed Sep 2nd | David Stockwell – History of posters. |
| Wed Oct 7th | David Morris - The potential of the Human Whistler. |
| Wed Nov 4th | Betty Allport – Trans Siberian Express. |
| Wed Dec 2nd | Roger Brown – An afternoon of musical entertainment. |
| A Little Bit of Culture | |
| Tue Feb 18th | RNCM OPERA GALA The Manchester Mid-day concert Society commences at 1 pm Tickets £8. Venue Bridgewater Hall Manchester. Meet at Piccadilly station @ 11:30 pm and take the tram to the Bridgwater for coffee before the concert. |
| Wed Mar 18th | 7pm Cyrano de Bergerac from the National Theatre, screening at the Plaza direct from the London West End ..starring James McAvoy |
| Canasta | |
| Tue Jan 28th | CANASTA SESSION |
| Tue Feb 11th | CANASTA SESSION |
| Tue Feb 25th | CANASTA SESSION |
| Tue Mar 10th | CANASTA SESSION |
| Tue Mar 24th | CANASTA SESSION |
| Computer | |
| Thu Feb 6th | NO MEETING |
| Thu Mar 5th | Managing Photographs in general. Vivienne Bath |
| Thu Apr 2nd | BACK TO BASICS (PART 2_ |
| Thu May 7th | TBA |
| Thu Jun 4th | TBA |
| Thu Jul 2nd | TBA |
| Cryptic Crossword | |
| Tue Jan 21st | Meet at Stockport Sunday School at 2.00pm. |
| Tue Feb 18th | Meet at Shady Oak, Bramhall at 1.00pm. (Time and place to be confirmed after January meeting.) |
| Tue Mar 17th | Meet at Stockport Sunday School at 2.00pm. |
| Tue Apr 21st | Meet at Stockport Sunday School at 2.00pm. |
| Tue May 19th | Meet at Stockport Sunday School at 2.00pm. |
| Tue Sep 15th | Meet at Stockport Sunday School at 2.00pm. |
| Tue Oct 20th | Meet at Stockport Sunday School at 2.00pm. |
| Tue Nov 17th | Meet at Stockport Sunday School at 2.00pm. |
| Family History | |
| Tue Feb 11th | Family ephemera |
| Tue Mar 10th | - Guided Tour of Willow Grove Cemetery, South Reddish |
| Tue Apr 14th | Using maps for family history research |
| Tue May 12th | Useful websites for family history research |
| Tue Jun 9th | NO MEETING |
| Tue Jul 14th | NO MEETING |
| Tue Aug 11th | NO MEETING |
| Film | |
| Mon Jan 20th | For January we are injecting a little sunshine with FISHERMANS FRIENDS set on the Cornish coast. |
| Fri Jan 24th | Plaza 11 o'clock screening of Renee Zellweger in Judy in the 2019 film depicting the captivating account of Judy Garlands final london concert. ________________________________________ |
| Food Appreciation | |
| Thu Jan 30th | Baan Pad Thai restaurant in Reddish ( more details on the home page) |
| Tue Mar 31st | Brunch at the Berretto lounge, Redrock Stockport |
| Thu May 28th | venue to be announced |
| Thu Oct 29th | We are hoping to organise a coach trip to Oswaldtwistle Mill for a lunch followed by a tour of the area with a guide. |
| History | |
| Tue Feb 4th | Stockport Market Sheila Fleming |
| Tue Mar 3rd | STOCKPORT LANDMARKS 1.Textile mills 1732 onwards Barbara Marriott 30 mins 2. Hatting Industry Battersby’s 1895 Judith Higgins 30 mins 3. St. Mary’s Parish Church 1190 Christine Moore 10 mins 4. The Plaza Judith Sumner 15mins |
| Tue Oct 6th | STOCKPORT LANDMARKS 1. Wellington Road (By pass) 1824 Ruth Faulkner 30 mins 2. Underbank Hall , Arden Town House Joyce Embrey ? time 3. Stockport Viaduct 1840 Chris Moore 20 mins 4. Town Hall 1908 Kay Jones ? time |
| Mon Nov 2nd | Plantagenet Women: Speaker Ruth Faulkner: |
| Mon Dec 7th | Christmas Party with Family History |
| Mon Jan 4th 2021 | Leigh’s of Lyme: Vivian Bath |
| Mon Feb 1st 2021 | St. Thomas’ Hospital - The Workhouse: Speaker Isabella Collinson Joseph Lister: Speaker Janet Ayres |
| Mon Mar 1st 2021 | Joan Davis TBC |
| Music Appreciation | |
| Mon Feb 3rd | The A B C of Jazz A programme of traditional jazz, presented by Beryl Emersom. |
| Mon Mar 2nd | Heavens above (and way down below) Celestially inspired music that we can look up to and some more with a bit of devil in it. |
| Mon Apr 6th | Great Voices Wonderful voices from past and present, including choral music. |
| Mon May 4th | Ballet Afternoon An afternoon of ballet music, including music by Tchaikovsky, Delibes,Gounod, Schubert,Mendelssohn, etc. |
| Mon Jun 1st | Music by the not so well known Composers There is a great wealth of wonderful music that has been written by composers whose names we do not hear too often. Come and listen to a few - you will be surprised. |
| Mon Jul 6th | Music chosen by Alan Wadsworth Alan presents some of the music he likes to listen to. |
| Mon Aug 3rd | Members Choice A wide variety of music chosen by members of the Music Appreciation Group. |
| Mon Sep 7th | French Music A programme of music by Debussy, Faure,Saint-Saens, Bizet and others. |
| Mon Oct 5th | Bing etc and all that jazz Songs by Bing and others, presented by Reynold Higginbotham |
| Mon Nov 2nd | Magical Moments and Fairytales A programme of absolute wizard music - and we'll conjure up some from Fairyland as well. |
| Mon Dec 7th | Music for Christmas Music for the start of the Christmas season. |
| Music Making | |
| Tue Jan 28th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Feb 11th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Feb 25th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Mar 10th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Mar 24th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Apr 14th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Apr 28th | Rehearsals |
| Tue May 12th | Rehearsals |
| Tue May 26th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Jun 9th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Jun 23rd | Rehearsals |
| Tue Jul 14th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Jul 28th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Aug 11th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Aug 25th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Sep 8th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Sep 22nd | Rehearsals |
| Tue Oct 13th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Oct 27th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Nov 10th | Rehearsals |
| Tue Nov 24th | Rehearsals |
| Play Reading | |
| Mon Jan 20th | First meeting come along for a chat to decide the way forward. |
| Mon Feb 17th | NO MEETING |
| Poetry | |
| Mon Jan 20th | Poems all about flowers |
| Mon Feb 17th | TBA |
| Mon Mar 23rd | TBA |
| Mon Apr 20th | TBA |
| Mon May 18th | TBA |
| Mon Jun 22nd | TBA |
| Science & Technology | |
| Thu Feb 13th | Training RN Artificers Ron Emerson |
| Thu Mar 12th | “Sleep" Janet Ayres & "Mining in Poynton" Isabella Collinson |
| Thu Apr 9th | Graphene Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan |
| Thu May 14th | Are we Alone Prof Ian Morison |
| Thu Sep 10th | To be confirmed |
| Thu Oct 8th | Earthquakes Pete Webb |
| Thu Nov 12th | The Fascinating World of Radiology – 50 Shades of Grey Prof Gill Baynes |
| Thu Dec 10th | To be confirmed |
| Tai Chi | |
| Mon Jan 20th | TAI CHI |
| Mon Jan 27th | TAI CHI |
| Mon Feb 10th | TAI CHI |
| Mon Feb 17th | TAI CHI |
| Mon Feb 24th | TAI CHI |
| Mon Mar 9th | TAI CHI |
| Mon Mar 16th | TAI CHI |
| Mon Mar 23rd | TAI CHI |
| Travel | |
| Mon Feb 10th | "Patagonia" with Marion Bray |
| Walks - Longer | |
| Fri Jan 24th | Over Hadden Bakewell 6 miles |
| Fri Jan 31st | Castleton 2 Hope 7 miles |
| Fri Feb 7th | Calden & Leek Canals Leek 6 miles |
| Fri Feb 14th | Crooke Hill Ladybower 6 miles |
| Fri Feb 21st | Chinley Churn Chinley 7 miles |
| Fri Feb 28th | Barthomley (clockwise) Barthomley 8 miles |
| Fri Mar 6th | Rudyard Rudyard 8 miles |
| Fri Mar 13th | Kelsall Kelsall 8 miles |
| Fri Mar 20th | Shuttlingsloe (clockwise) Macclesfield Forest 8 miles |
| Fri Mar 27th | Rishworth Moor (short) Rishworth 7 miles |
| Fri Apr 3rd | Foolow (anticlockwise) Longstone 9 miles |
| Fri Apr 10th | Railway Walk (EVR?) Cheddleton 7 miles |
| Fri Apr 17th | Robinson's Leap Longdendale 9 miles |
| Fri Apr 24th | Belthorn Clough Head 10 miles |
| Walks - Short | |
| Wed Jan 22nd | Poynton Pool and surrounding area, shortish walk, good paths, no stiles etc. Bob & Christine Wain Meet in the public Car Park, on South Park Drive, Poynton (SK12 1BR). |
| Wed Jan 29th | Easy Walk 3.7 miles, mostly on good firm paths-canal, golf course and Middlewood way. Leaders Hilary & Ray Park at High Lane Village Hall, Windlehurst Rd, (SK6 8AB). |
| Wed Feb 5th | NO WALK OPEN MEETING |
| Wed Feb 12th | From Brabyns Park and a full round of Etherow, No stiles, normally reasonable ground conditions Judith Curry. Meet in Brabyns Park, Brabyns Brow, Marple, .(SK6 5DT). |
| Wed Feb 19th | 2 hr walk via Middlewood Way, Fields of Lyme, ladder stile, two traditional stiles and kisssing gates. Uphill section and potenially muddy. Leader Sara Stabb Meet at Jacksons Brick Works car park, Higher Poynton (SK12 1TY). |
| Wed Feb 26th | 3.7 miles Macc Forest Area ciruclar (some stiles and steps along the route). Leader Jim Hollingsworth Visitor Centre Macc forest (parking fee) (SK11 0NS). |
| Wed Mar 4th | NO WALK OPEN MEETING |
| Wed Mar 11th | 4 mile walk around Bollington, good paths on stiles anticipated. Ray & Shelagh Berry. Meet at Public Car Park Bollington, Adlington Rd,Opposite the cricket ground.(SK10 5JT). |
| Wed Mar 18th | Canal walk via Roman Lakes. No stiles. Leader Eileen Stoney Meet in Brabyns Park, Brabyns Brow, Marple, .(SK6 5DT). |
| Wed Mar 25th | Short canal walk ,then Green Park Farm into Lyme Park. Could be a little muddy. Gill Cameron & Judith Curry Meet at Nelsons Pit car park. (SK12 1TH). (A small charge for parking). |
| Wed Apr 1st | NO WALK MONTHLY MEETING |
| Wed Apr 8th | Hayfield Birch vale, Little Hayfield Provisional |
| Wed Apr 15th | Lymm Dam and Canal 3.8 miles Provisional Usual car park. |
| Wed Apr 29th | Brabyns Park circular taking in the Canal, Goyt River and Roman Bridge. Provisional |
| Wed May 6th | NO WALK OPEN MEETING |
| Wed May 13th | Congleton from Glebe Farm taking in canel and golf course area. Provisional |
| Wed May 20th | Romiley forum 3.85 miles circular. Provisional |
| Wed May 27th | 3.9 miles Chorlton Water Park. Provisional |
| Wed Jun 3rd | NO WALK OPEN MEETING |
| Wed Jun 10th | Biddulph Way 3.8 miles could be muddy in places . Provisional |
| Wed Jun 17th | Ashford in the Water to Monsal Head, 4 miles. Provisional |
| Wed Jun 24th | Mellor church N.2 Walk Provisional |
| Wed Jul 1st | NO WALK OPEN MEETING |
| Wed Jul 8th | Bollington Canal and Railway Line. Provisional |
| Wed Jul 15th | 4 mile re-run of the Bents Garden Centre Walk (A580 East Lancs Rd). Provisional Spouses may wish to accompany their partners and spend a couple of hours visiting the garden Centre which has lots of interesting things to see and do. (WA3 5NT). |
| Wed Jul 22nd | No 2. Whaley Bridge circular from A5004 layby taking in Goyt Reservoirs and Taxal Church. Provisional |
| Wed Jul 29th | 3.5 miles From Mobberley church. Provisional |
| Wed Aug 5th | NO WALK OPEN MEETING |
| Wed Aug 12th | Lyme No2 from Nelson Pit. Provisional |
| Wed Aug 19th | Mobberley Brook, 3.75 mile flat walk in the Mobberley area. Provisional Park at and start from Church Inn, Mobberley (WA16 7RD). |
| Wed Aug 26th | Bollington White Nancy circular Provisional David's old walk |
| Wed Sep 2nd | NO WALK OPEN MEETING |
| Wed Sep 9th | Etherow to Brabyns top to bottom., bring your bus pass. Provisional MEET AT 9.55am at the bus stop under the Coop Village Clock, Marple Bridge. (SK6 5DT). |
| Wed Sep 16th | Bollington to Rainow circular. Provisional Meet in the village main car park |
| Wed Sep 23rd | Loin Salt Works. Provisional |
| Wed Sep 30th | Mellor No.1 walk Shiloh Rd to Marple Bridge via the Mellor Cross. Provisional 10.05am 375 Bus route to Top Mellor. |
| Wed Oct 7th | NO WALK OPEN MEETING |
| Wed Oct 14th | Macclesfield Garden Centre to Sutton Reservoir and canal. Provisional Macclesfield Garden Centre. |
| Wed Oct 21st | Redesmere sailing club circular. Provisional Redesmere Lake Duck feeding area car park. |
| Wed Oct 28th | Marsden Arms circular. Provisional |
| Wed Nov 4th | NO WALK OPEN MEETING |
| Wed Nov 11th | Mellor No2 walk from 5 lane end to Marple via Mellor Cross (Remembrance Day) Provisional |
| Wed Nov 18th | Tegg's nose circular. Provisional |
| Wed Nov 25th | 3.9 miles Chorlton Water Park. Provisional |
| Wed Dec 2nd | NO WALK OPEN MEETING |
| Wed Dec 9th | Jacksons Lane to Poynton Pool via the new A555 road. Provisional Lay by on Jacksons lane. |
| Wed Dec 16th | Rose Hill via Johns to Canal and back via the allotments. Provisional |
| Wed Dec 23rd | Short walk winding down for the Xmas festivities. Provisional |
| Wed Dec 30th | No 3 walk in Lyme Provisional |