Monthly Meetings
Monthly meetings are held at 2.00pm at the Friends' Meeting House at 8b Summerfield Road (off Bath Road), Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton WV1 4PR.
Parking
Please leave the car park adjacent to the Meeting House for visiting speakers, delivery of equipment and for the use of disabled members.
Parking is available at the large medical centre car park on the left as you drive through to get to the Meeting House on payment of £1. An 'honesty box' is provided at the registration desk. Otherwise we ask able-bodied members to use the free roadside parking places (two hour limit in Summerfield Rd or four hours around West Park).
| Dates for your Diary | |
|---|---|
| Meetings | |
| Tue Jun 25th | Summer Social |
| Tue Jul 23rd | Dr. Javed Hashemi: King George III: Bipolar, extremely intelligent he guided the country through a difficult period of history. |
| Tue Aug 27th | No Meeting. |
| Tue Sep 24th | AGM. |
| German Improvers | |
| Tue Jun 25th | Graham |
| Tue Jul 2nd | Juliet |
| Tue Jul 9th | Keith |
| Art Appreciation | |
| Wed Jul 17th | 'Indian art' |
| Wed Aug 21st | 'Favourite art galleries'. Suggestions for inclusion please. |
| Wed Sep 18th | 'Hieronymus Bosch' |
| Wed Oct 16th | 'Looking at Landscapes'using the Belfast U3A shared learning project examples, then members' suggested works. |
| Wed Nov 20th | 'Cesar Manryke' presented by Neil Hermsen. |
| Wed Dec 18th | Picture quiz, + planning for future sessions |
| Wed Jan 15th 2020 | 'Winter festivals' - more examples from around the world, please. |
| Wed Feb 19th 2020 | 'Looking at abstracts' using the Belfast U3A shared learning project examples then members' suggested works. |
| Brush up your Shakespeare | |
| Tue Jul 9th | 10.-15- 12.30 DVD |
| Jazz | |
| Tue Jul 2nd | Herbie Hancock (John Sheard) |
| Local History | |
| Mon Jul 8th | A Talk "Wolverhampton Churches" by Mark Hathorne |
| Mon Aug 12th | Review of research that the members of the group have carried out into the background of the men whose names appear on the Boer War Memorial in St Peter's Church |
| Mon Sep 9th | A look at the businesses that were operated by Don Everall from the 1940s to the 1970s |
| Mon Oct 14th | Session theme is yet to be decided. |
| Mon Nov 11th | A Talk about locally manufactured Sunbeam Cars by our member Alison McKee |
| Mon Dec 9th | A talk about the Korean War with consideration to the local connections, by Dr Richard Jones, a Wolverhampton University based Historian. |
| Lunch Club | |
| Wed Dec 11th | Academy Christmas Lunch 2019 This is a very advanced notice of next years meal. It is a week later due to such congestion around this time for various groups to meet. All further details will come later on but I will need all bookings, menu choices and payment before 11th October 2019 due to other commitments. 01902700151 for all details. THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED |
| Reading 1 | |
| Thu Jul 18th | 'Milkman' by Anna Burns |
| Thu Sep 5th | 'The Silence of the Girls'by Pat Barker |
| Reading 2 | |
| Thu Jul 4th | 'The Bolter' Frances Osbourne |
| Thu Aug 1st | NO Meeting in August |
| Thu Sep 5th | 'Engleby' Sebastian Faulks |
| Thu Oct 3rd | 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' Heather Morris |
| Thu Nov 7th | 'The Milkman' Anna Burns |
| Walking | |
| Wed Jun 26th | Evening Walk & Meal: Cross Green to Shareshill, approx. 4.5 miles. Meal at The Anchor Inn. 4.30 p.m. start. Linda Moreland |
| Wed Jul 10th | Diddlebury: 7.5 miles. Pub Lunch. John Black 9.15.a.m. start |
| Fri Jul 26th | Cannock Chase - Marquis's Drive & Castle Ring: 5.5 miles. Pub Lunch. Di & David Tordoff 9.15 a.m. start |