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List of Speakers
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​2025
28th October - 'Working with the Homeless in Manchester' by Judith Walmsley
11th November - 'Getting Close to Nature' by Peter Durnall
25th November - 'D-Day and Beyond' by Dave Walmsley
9th December - 'Hale U3A Ukulele Band' led by Jean Peters
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2026
6th January - 'A Snapshot of Naval Aviation in the Cold War' by Julian Bond
20th January - 'How Manchester Cotton Wired the World' by Nigel Linge
3rd February - 'Bernstein beyond West Side Story' by Geoff Scargill
17th February - 'Prison Life' by Alan Blocksidge
3rd March - 'These Isles' by Brian Groom
17th March - 'The Ladies created by Joyce Grenfell' by Jean Finney
31st March - 'The Deansgate Story' by Keith Warrender
14th April - 'Towards a Breathing Friendly Trafford' by Heather Henry
28th April - Timperley Probus Club Annual General Meeting
12th May - 'The Roaring Twenties' by Neil Sheldon
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Previous talks have been on many varied subjects and have included :-
Black Holes, The Raid on Peenemunde, The North West Passage, History of Panama Canal, Wartime Resistance in Holland, Antarctica, Forensic Science, Western Woman in a Muslim World, Lady Randy, Churchill’s mother, Clashes with the KGB, In the steps of Livingstone, Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition, History of Recorded Music, The Hungarian uprising and my escape, DNA, it's use in Criminal investigations, A Yorkshireman in the Lancashire Leagues, An Englishwoman in the White House, Life and work of an Astronaut, The Science of Detection, The Young Queen, History of the English Longbow, Bletchley Park, Dynastic China, Old Comedians, The Captive Queen, Milestones in Forensic Science, Florence Nightingale, The Spitfire Wing, Commonwealth Graves, Robert Burns, life and loves, Mitford Girls, Hitler's Double-cross, Hidden Gems of Manchester, 3D Printing, Medical Imaging, RAF, Inheritance tales of a Litigator, Rebirth of VW, Edward Elgar-The Real Enigma, DIY Surgery, Reinvestigation Moors Murders, Battle of Waterloo, Behind the Mic- Radio Lancashire, Life and Times of a Busker, History of Mobile Phones, Life of an Auctioneer, Roman Occupation of Britain, Queen Victoria, History of Rubber Technology, Working with Manchester Homeless, RNLI, 1919 jazz arrives in Britain, Howard Somerville, Everest Pioneer& Missionary, Earthquakes, The Hunt for Hitler's Aerospace Secrets, Lies, damned lies, and statistics, How to avoid being scammed, Climate Change, Are we alone? The search for Life Beyond, The Falklands War, Cheshire's Ancient Mariner, The Lives and Music of Rodgers & Hart, The History of Christies Hospital, The Origin of Nursery Rhymes Parts 1&2, Entrepreneurs and their Empires, Faith, Fun and Fellowship, Regional Dialects, Casualties Union, The trials and tribulations of a wedding photographer, The 7 Years War, Life as a market trader, The Darling Buds of Maie, Sounds of the 50s, Mrs Pankhurst and The Suffragettes, A musical journey to America and back, Northerners, A Town in Crisis, Operation Mincemeat, Islands of the South Atlantic, The Gretna Girls and the Devil's Porridge, Growing up in the 40s and Northern Humour, The Battle of Agincourt, Working Mens' Clubs, Over paid and over here, Escape from Burma, The British in India, Paddy the Mole Catcher, The 60's, Decay or Decadence, Cartoonist, Eric Winkle Brown - Pilot, Life of a Prison Officer, Climate change & Electric Vehicles, The Reluctant Shepherdess, Bringing Law to life with laughter, Dodie Smith - Beyond the Spots, Fridtjof Nansen, The Battle of Mirbat, Life times of a Busker, Zeppelin Ship of Dreams, Through the eyes of a magician. The Life of a Prison Governor. The History of Manchester Theatres. Hale U3A Ukulele Band. Churchill. The Great Musicals of Stage & Screen. The Rise of Hitler. Made in Manchester. The Iditarod Trail. Blind Veterans. The Exceptional Life of Howard Hughes. A lifetime on Cormorant Alpha. The Landscape of the Peak District. Writing Crime Fiction. Confessions of an Immigration Judge. The History of AVRO. Stalin. Memories of the Sixties. The Ted Heath Story. Altrincham Board of Health Maps 1852. Painting the Saints. Baron Egerton. The Roman Occupation of Britain. To Infinity and beyond. A walk in the Himalayas. Air Traffic Control. Trafford Park. From Barrow to Baghdad. Appeasement. Manchester Portraits. The Making of a Garden. The Streets of Bowdon. Life in Prison. Death and Dancing. Sleight of Mind. Reinvestigation of the Moors Murders. Running Trafford Council. Your Money and Your Brain. The Fighting McKays. Dunham Massey Prisoner of War Camp. The Problems of Eastern Europe. The Goodwood Revival and Achievements of Stirling Moss. Fate of the Poles after 1949. The last week of peace/war in 1939. The five men who beat Mohammed Ali. The true history of the Bounty Mutiny. Golden Heroes.
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