Farnborough u3a Monthly Guest Speakers 2026-27
All meetings are held at the Farnborough College of Technology and start at 3:00pm
Talks are given by guest speakers on a wide range of topics. These subjects are sometimes suggested by u3a members.
Topics in the year 2024/2025 have included WWII pilot escapes from German forces; wildlife photography; Clandon Hall National Trust property; BBC programme graphics; novelists' writing inspiration; Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera and Stretcher Bearers of the Western Front.
Members, along with guests and visitors, are encouraged to attend these meetings.
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Roy Larkin - WW1 Verdun
When the mainline railway to Verdun was destroyed in the opening barrages of the Battle for Verdun in February 1916, the country road from Bar-le-Duc to Verdun became the majority artery for all the supplies to the battlefield, and the civilian population of Verdun. At its peak, a lorry every few seconds would have passed…
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Astrid Bower-Veenan. Challenges and Joys of Managing Commercial Bee-hives
More details to follow nearer the time