Real Ale Group

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On Wednesday, 19th July, 16 of us met at 6.30pm to catch the tram to Nottingham Midland Train Station, then a bus down to Trent Bridge. Long live the travel passes!

We visited three public houses around the Trent Bridge area, the Trent Navigation, then the Embankment, then the Brewhouse. All sold reasonable beer, but the Brewhouse was both expensive and not well attended.

John Saunders had prepared two quizzes, and we split into two teams for a very hotly contested outcome, each team won one quiz and so onto tie breakers. After four drawn tie breakers, John announced a draw

We then caught the bus back up to Midland Station, and visited our final pub, the Vat and Fiddle, always an excellent choice to finish up in. Back through the station to catch the tram home to Hucknall.

Many thanks to John Saunders for organising the night.

Severn Trent Possible Discount

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Big Difference Scheme

Recent information from Ashfield Council gives details of a possible discount of up to 90% off your water bill for eligible houses.

The two main criteria are:-

a) Live alone and/or

b) Have an annual household income of less than £20, 048.

 For more details either visit www.bigdiff.co.uk, or phone 0121 355 7766 option 6. Cannot guarantee anything, but worth a try – good luck.

Melvyn

History Group

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The History Group always welcomes all U3A members especially new ones. Our indoor meeting place is Central Methodist Church on Baker Street: time 2pm – 4pm ish.

Kathy, Sue and I will be having a break during July and August when there are no meetings. The three of us will look forward to seeing members at Central Methodist Church on 20th September when Robert Mee will be with us with an illustrated talk about ‘Nottinghamshire Castles – Eleven Sites and more besides’. How many do you know of?

Maureen

Meetings and visits – 2023

JULY & AUGUST = HOLIDAYS

September 20th 2023

Robert Mee, whom we have enjoyed listening to before, will talk about Nottinghamshire Castles. He says – Eleven sites and more besides

October 18th 2023

Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Staffordshire Hoard on display.

Leave Hucknall 10.30am – leave Stoke 4pm Cost of visit £12.50

November 15th 2023

Michael Cooke, is another of our previous speakers, who usually tells about European history, this time I think it might be around England.

December 21st No meeting – too close to Christmas

Fun with Languages

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This group is exactly what the title says – FUN with different languages. It is NOT intended to be a high powered language course, but to learn the basics of some european languages to get by on holiday.

We meet the second Thursday of each month in John Godber Centre 10.30 am until 12 noon, usually in the Byron suite.

Our last meeting was learning about directions and places in a town in French, as this is the language we are studying at present.     

We also enjoyed some lunch, French style, kindly brought by Sue and John Tedstone to celebrate their Golden wedding on Bastille day. Congratulations to them.      

We shall meet in Augus,t on Thursday 10th, in JGC at 10.30 am – all welcome.      

Ann & Liz.

Grumpy Visit to National Mining Museum

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After a last-minute cancellation of our booking by the Museum, which had postponed our originally planned visit, our intrepid members finally made it to Yorkshire in early June.

The Museum is built around what had been a working pit in the Yorkshire coalfield, between Wakefield and Huddersfield. There was less grumpiness when we realized that, as a National Museum, entry is free, but we did take part in an underground tour, for which there is a donation.

The museum is staffed mainly by volunteers who all worked in mining before retirement, there being no substitute for hands-on experience. A degree of fitness is needed for the underground tour, and along the route we passed a large amount of abandoned machinery, left as it was on the day the pit closed.

Another interesting visit, and the motorway was running well on the day of our visit. There are a lot of interesting buildings and displays to see, and the museum is worth more than one visit.

On the way, we passed the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, also well worth a visit. This is a huge site, with outdoor sculptures by famous artists such as Henry Moore and also short-term exhibitions.