Monthly Meetings
Monthly Meetings and Open Days
We meet at 2pm on the first Wednesday of each month (except August and December) in the Angel Centre, Tonbridge (map). We invite interesting speakers and always follow the talk with the chance to chat over a tea or coffee.
Once a year this meeting is dedicated to an Open Day where there is the opportunity to talk to many group leaders. Details of these meetings are given on the Events page.
Please note: We are arranging for these meeting to be viewable over zoom for those that cannot attend in person, further details and the zoom login details are in the journal.
If you would like to be sent an email with the link to these meetings each month or have any questions about this new service, please email zoom@tonbridgeu3a.uk
PROGRAMME FOR MONTHLY MEETING SPEAKERS 2023
Meetings open to all members; First Wednesday of the month
2:00pm to 4.00pm at The Angel Centre, Tonbridge
Wednesday 1 February 2023
Apothecary's Garden - Toni Mount
Our February speaker Toni Mount, will being giving a talk on The Apothecary's Garden. With some fascinating facts that, throughout history people have found natural remedies to cure their ills. Sometimes the treatments were sensible but many others were weird and unsuccessful. Surprisingly some ancient remedies are even now being found to effectively treat our most challenging diseases whilst others are the basis for our most common cures. All these treatments would be found on the Apothecary’s shelves or even now grown in our gardens and hedgerows. Toni is an author and novelist specialising in the ordinary lives of fascinating historical characters. She has written several successful nonfiction books including Medieval Medicine; its Mysteries and Science & the Amazon best-seller, Everyday Life in Medieval London. Her historic novels include Victorian and medieval murder-mysteries and her detailed knowledge of these periods help her create believable characters and realistic settings.
This meeting will also be available on Zoom. Log on details are in the IT News in the January Journal
A recording of the talk will be available during February, email zoom@tonbridgeu3a.uk for details.
Wednesday 1 March 2023
Across India on an Enfield - Antonia Gallop
Wednesday 5 April 2023
The Oast Theatre – From Its Birth to the Present Day - Ian Burns
Wednesday 3 May 2023
The Changing Fortunes of the Cinque Ports - James Dickinson
Wednesday 7 June 2023
Solo Walk Across Africa - Fran Sandham
Wednesday 12 July 2023 - Note this meeting is in the second week of July
Tonbridge u3a AGM
TBA
Wednesday 2 August 2023
No Meeting - Summer Break
Wednesday 6 September 2023
Charles Dickens Conjurer: A Playbill of his Most Famous Show - Ian Keable
Wednesday 4 October 2023
Open Day
Wednesday 1 November 2023
Careless Talks Cost Lives - Art & Design on the Home Front in WW2 - James Taylor
Wednesday 6 December 2023
Christmas Event