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Litter Picking Group

Obviously with Christmas and the poor weather it has been a slow month for litter picking. However, during an afternoon walk one member collected a supermarket basket, filled it with empty beer cans (he claims not to be responsible for … Continue reading

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Grumpy Old Men

As we get going in 2024, it’s time for the Grumpy Old Men to start thinking about outings for the coming year. In 2023, two of the places we visited were the National Mining Museum at Wakefield and, nearer to … Continue reading

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Science

Our first meeting of 2024 is a week earlier than usual on Friday 12th January 10.00am in the main hall at JGC The original plan was for everyone to create a fixed cyanotype ‘photographic’ image of selected objects but now … Continue reading

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Our u3a Social Committee Christmas event

The first week of December 2023 was a busy u3a week and already it seems a long time ago. Monday December 4th was our first traditional Christmas Lunch since the Covid restrictions were lifted. 144 places were available and they … Continue reading

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Christmas Lecture and Groups’ Video

Friday December 8th, 2023 Esteemed local historian and the long time group leader for the popular History Group Maureen Newton presented a talk about Hucknall born composer and musician, Eric Coates Maureen concentrated on his early years in Hucknall and … Continue reading

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