Film Show
Film "A United Kingdom" at Ace Café, Adelaide Row, Seaham, 2pm Monday 6th Feb. Jackie Beadling.
Walking Venues for 2017
All walks commence at 10.30 unless otherwise stated. Feb.3rd Hawthorn. Meet Nose’s point 2nd car park. Mar.3rd Cleadon Hills. Meet Cornthwaite Park, Whitburn SR6 7BZ Apr.7th Durham Riverside/Botanic. Meet Gala Theatre 11am. GF May 5th Plessey Woods. Bring packed lunch. NE22 6HZ 11am. FF June [...]
Walking Group December Outing
Our last walk of the year started from the Scout Association car park near Moorhouse Woods. Down the farm track over the old railway line following the path into a small copse. Climbing our first stile we stepped down into a bit of a quagmire. This did not deter us, [...]
Patchwork Group Outing to Harrogate 0n 26 November 2016
The Patchwork Group were invited to join ladies from another U3A to go to the Knitting and Stitching Show at Harrogate. Some of us took up the offer and had a great day. We were treated to works of art of all kinds of crafts from some of the [...]
Digital Photography Group Visit to St. Mary’s Island October 2016
For our October outing we visited St. Mary's island, we were blessed with great weather to match the lovely location. It is very small but well worth a visit and we got some very good pictures. Click any image to enlarge.
Digital Photography Group visit to Preston Park September 2016
An enjoyable but sweaty couple of hours among beautiful plants and very tame butterflies for our September outing to Preston Park butterfly farm. Click any image to enlarge.
Local History Group January 2016-December 2016
Programme of Study The group decided to use a chronological timeline to give us a foundation for our study, however we are not limited by this and may deviate if something of current interest sparks our interest. Members also research topics themselves and are happy to take the lead [...]
Art Appreciation Visit to MIMA
Art Appreciation Mima Visit. Many thanks to Mary who organised our visit to Mima to view the paintings and ceramics held in their archives. We were shown some of the paintings and given information on them by the assistant curator. Star of the show was a small painting by [...]
Patch Work Group Charity Donation
At our last group meeting on the 14th September Janet came along to collect the Quilts the group had made as a joint project for the Butterwick Children’s Hospice. We were also able to donate money raised at the July meeting sale due to the generosity of our U3A [...]
Patchwork Group Outing to High Street Carville 15.9.16
Jean our leader, Lindsey and I from the group visited the Carville Methodist Church Quilters exhibition this morning. We were not disappointed it was well worth the visit. There was some new local business there that was worth getting to know about. A sale of work so we acquired [...]