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Witney

Event Category: Meeting

  • No Speaker Meeting

    Due to unforeseen circumstances it is not possible to hold a speaker meeting because the worship area is unavailable. Read more

  • AGM

    After the AGM has finished Mike Collier will run a quiz. Read more

  • Estate Planning

    Speaker: Brian Rutter. Brian’s talk is completely free of charge with a strict no-sales agenda. It will cover a rangeof estate planning topics, including making a will, setting up a trust, the importance oflasting powers of attorney, and more. Given the average age of our members, many of them may already be totally organisedwith this,… Read more

  • Inn and Out at the Top

    Speaker: Neil Hanson. Neil has been an Oxford graduate, a plasterer’s mate, an ice cream seller, a holiday campredcoat, an art critic and a rugby league commentator! He’s edited the boozer’s bible – the Good Beer Guide, and later owned Britain’s highestinn, in a wild and remote corner of the Yorkshire Dales, and also went… Read more

  • My Life and Times as a Film Extra

    Speaker: John Kinory. John is a technical translator, formerly photography and physics lecturer. He lives in Oxfordshire and 20 years ago started taking part in local theatre shows and in films and TV dramas. The filming John gets involved in is mostly background/supporting artists work ("extra"), but he also gets quite a few featured parts… Read more

  • Thunder in the Mountains

    Speaker: Tom Isitt. Tom is an author, historian, photographer and adventurer, specialising in the lesser-known aspects of the First World War. With 35 years experience behind him, he has been published in over a dozen countries. Thunder in the Mountains is his fifth book and has been editor of various sporting magazines, including cycling and… Read more

  • Unmasking the Cock Lane Ghost

    Speaker: Ian Keable. Ian started his working life as an accountant, having gained a degree from Oxford University, but felt the need to try something different...so he became a magician! His first professional job was a summer season in the Channel Islands, working twice nightly, seven days a week for six months...so he thought twice… Read more

  • The Amazing Mr Cotton

    Speaker: Brian Fernley. Brian spent most of his working life in the telecommunications industry, starting as an apprentice, then moving into design. From there he joined the training department eventually becoming the UK Technical Training Manager for Siemens Communications. He has always been interested in aviation history and, as well as having written an interactive… Read more

  • Witney in Old Postcards

    Speaker: Mike Collier (Witney U3A member).  Many of you will see Mike on the first and third Thursday of each month leading our Audio Visual Team and you may also be part of his Cotswold History Discovery Group.  Mike says he will "come out' this week - out from behind that AV desk at the… Read more

  • Longitude – The Quest for East and West

    Speaker: John McCormick. John regularly gives talks in his local village, Hook Norton. His talks range from the history of Bletchley Park to the Apollo space programme, to the history of flight (which you may remember him delivering to u3a). He will tell us tell us about Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne, who did his best… Read more