Lectures 2023 - 2024

Thursdays at 2.00pm in St Barnabas Church Hall, Main Street, Swanland. Click on image for directions

Lecture meetings are held at 2.00pm on the first and third Thursdays in each month from September to July, afterwards there is tea/coffee and biscuits and a chance to catchup with our members.

To read a Speakers Biography please click on Speakers Name if link available. We have a few recordings of the Lectures done during the covid crisis, you can check 2020 / 2021 lecture pages for them by going on the menu and clicking the Lectures Tab.

Date:	Speaker:	Subject:	About:

07^th September 2.00pm	Paul Mann	The Hull Shells	World War 1 Armament Industry in Hull
21^st September 2.00pm	Mike Powell	‘My favourite Antique finds’	But my talk is not a history lecture as I also look at how sentiment, the search for a bargain and an appreciation of craftsmanship has influenced my hoarding instincts.
05^th October 2.00pm	Pam Waddington Muse & Peter Sproston	For National Poetry Day: CANCELLED	Due to Covid infection!
19^th October 2.00pm	Malcolm Brooke	What happens behind the scenes of a World Athletics Championship meeting?
02^nd November 2.00pm	Colin Bradshaw	Flight over Beverley	Colin Bradshaw gave an excellent Zoom lecture on 'A Flight Over East Yorkshire' during lockdown ( was it really 3 years ago???) and now returns to the skies to give us an aerial perspective of Beverley. As well as an unfamiliar view of many familiar buildings Colin will show us both how the town has developed and how it is spreading out into the countryside. Colin is also a 'Beverley expert' and I am confident he will be be able to answer all your questions!
16^th November 2.00pm	Malcolm Lawrenson	The Curacoa Accident and Swanland	The sinking of The HMS Curacoa in WW2
07^th December 2.00pm	Bryan Burton	The History Of Fenners	J. H. Fenner & Co. was founded 162 years ago in the "old town" of Hull. The original products were of leather, for use with horses, but expertise with this material was later applied to transmission belting for all areas of industry, followed by woven textiles for similar and other applications. After 100 years, the Company was a world leader in power transmission, perhaps most famously by vee belt drives but also by many other means, boasting that "Fenner keeps the wheels of industry turning". Cut to the present day and that world leadership is in heavy conveyor belting for mines and quarries, with Fenner now being part of a large multi-national conglomerate. This presentation illustrates that 162 year history and includes some personal anecdotes from the speaker's 50+ years working for the Company and with the Fenner brand.
21^st December 2.00pm	Choir	Christmas Concert
04^th January 2024 2.00pm	Mike Grey	The Birds In Your Garden
18^th January 2.00pm	Wendy Maslin	Tales from The Family Archives	Reflections on Bees and Bee Keeping
01^st February 2.00pm	Tina Cerutti	‘A Recipe For Life - the role of High Sheriff.’	As well as running the popular ‘Cerutti 2’ restaurant in Beverley, Tina is also the High Sheriff of East Yorkshire for this year. She has just published a book entitled ‘ A Recipe For Life’ that features not only her favourite recipes but also those of her friends, colleagues and customers together with anecdotes from her life as a chef. Tina is a noted fund raiser and is donating the proceeds from this book to ‘The Tribune Trust.’ Tina is a well known local figure and many of us have enjoyed meals at ‘Cerutti 2’; she also supported our ‘Event Days’. I am looking forward to an excellent talk!
15^th February 2.00pm	John Wilson	'Soap.'	Have you ever wondered how it is made? Or more fundamentally, where it comes from? On February 15th we welcome Swanland u3a member John Wilson who will talk on how this common yet vital product is made and the improvements that came about with the industrialisation of the manufacturing process. This leads on to how modern detergents wash our laundry and the development of the modern washing machine. John gave us a very entertaining talk on 'The Queens Bank Notes' and I am sure that 'Soap' will both inform and make us smile!
07^th March 2.00pm	Neil Hanson	'Ghost Writer.'	Author and Unique After Dinner Speaker.
21^st March 2.00pm	Chair John Munson	Annual General Meeting	Swanland u3a AGM please attend so we will meet our quorum.
04^th April 2.00pm	Sue Hickson-Marsay	The Storm Tossed lady	Sue Hickson-Marsay is Hornsea Lifeboat's station manager, began her career in lifeguarding at Hull's Woodford Leisure Centre in 1991 while also serving as a coastguard in Hornsea.
18^th April 2.00pm	Stuart Atkins	Sammy Cahn - The Man Who Put Words Into The Mouth Of Sinatra.	Born Samuel Cohen on 18th June, 1913, in New York City. Changed his last name twice from Cohen to Kahn and again from Khan to Cohn to avoid confusion with two other celebrities, he married twice, Gloria Delson (1946 - 1964) (divorced, 2 children), Tita Curtis (August 2, 1970 - January 15, 1993). Songwriter Sammy Cohn wrote many of the songs that Frank Sinatra recorded, which included ,Come Fly With Me, Teach Me Tonight and High Hopes. Sammy Cahn died 15th January 1993 in Los Angeles. Wrote over 50 songs and olds the record for most Oscars for Best Song alone.
02^nd May 2.00pm	Patti Gold	'My Life with Laughs'	Patti is an entertainer, her acting career includes Heartbeat, Russ Abbot Madhouse, Jimmy Cricket's TV show and Punchlines.
16^th May 2.00pm	Paul Mann	The Beeton Family of Hull and Barrow	Victorian larger-than-life eccentric characters
06^th June 2.00pm	Prof. Brad K. Gibson	Will we ever live on Mars…and should we?	Living on Mars??? It is very cold, low as -100 degrees Centigrade, No atmosphere, food or water. Soil toxic with Perchlorates. Live underground or in pressurised domes.
20^th June 2.00pm	Pam Muse.	For National Poetry Day:	A Garland of Poetry Set in Song.
04^th July 2.00pm	Phil Walker	'Four Weddings and a funeral.'	Please note that in spite of the General Election on 4th July and the use of St Barnabas coffee lounge as a polling station our u3a lecture will still go ahead.
18^th July 2.00pm	Michele Lewis	From Hull to Heversham - a war-time story of evacuees.	"We heard the sound of a German bomber. It got louder and louder. We were all wearing our horrible red berets - what a target!" Baths once a week, grey mince. Chemical toilets and fleece-lined knickers - Heaven! For the girls of Hull High School these deprivations were a small price to pay when they were evacuated from the war-torn city to a rural paradise. Interviewing two of the old girls provided many vivid memories of their war-time home.
August 2.00pm		NO MEETINGS!