Monthly Meetings
All Talks are held in the Victoria Hall, Settle, and start at 10.30am. Coffee is available from 10am.
Admission is �1 for U3A members and non-members.
| Title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| AGM | 12 September 2019 | |
| Open meeting | 8 August 2019 | |
| Have Guitar – Will Travel: Travel experiences and famous faces | Neil Smith | 11 July 2019 |
| ‘S. Kilda – A Social History | Steve Halliwell | 13 June 2019 |
| Be Road Smart | Steve Ellis | 9 May 2019 |
| A Whale of a Tale – A whaling captain’s story from Hull | Jenny Stacey | 11 April 2019 |
| Kept one promise – took our land: Native American Indian History | Dr Graham Kemp | 14 March 2019 |
| Bibby’s in a Nutshell – The story of Bibby’s coach and holiday company | Chris Bibby | 14 February 2019 |
| The Thunder Dragon Kingdom – Bhutan | Stuart Kellington | 10 January 2019 |
| Christmas Social | 13 December 2018 | |
| What is going on in Palestine ? – view from a West Bank Village | Annie Neligan | 8 November 2018 |
| Mercy Ships | Duncan Hamlett | 11 October 2018 |
| AGM | 13 September 2018 | |
| Open meeting | 9 August 2018 | |
| The Life of L.S. Lowry | Pat Osborne | 12 July 2018 |
| The Science of Chocolate | Diana Leitch | 14 June 2018 |
| Counting Culture – conserving Lancashire’s hidden history | Heather Davis | 10 May 2018 |
| Clarity – Employment for Blind People our history from 1854 to today | Frank Owen | 12 April 2018 |
| The Year of a Gamekeeper | Russell Bury | 8 March 2018 |
| The Riddle of Humpty Dumpty | Alan Hemsworth | 8 February 2018 |
| The Geology of Yorkshire Dales Waterfalls | Bill Fraser | 11 January2018 |
| Christmas Social | 14 December 2017 | |
| Lancaster Castle – from prison to heritage asset | Nigel Neil | 9 November 2017 |
| The Secrets of Handwriting | Sylvia Ware | 12 October 2017 |
| AGM | 14 September 2017 | |
| Open meeting | 10 August 2017 | |
| The Vikings – Britain’s Ancestors? | Noel Moroney | 13 July 2017 |
| Yorkshire Cancer Research | Louise Robinson | 8 June 2017 |
| Moses Holden – self educated astronomer | Steve Halliwell | 11 May 2017 |
| Bletchley Park Enigma | Hugh Davies | 13 April 2017 |
| Nutrition | Verner Wheelock | 9 March 2017 |
| Stories from the War Hospital | Richard Wilcocks | 9 February 2017 |
| The Internet is not Magic | David Holdsworth | 12 January 2017 |
| Christmas Social | 8 December 2016 | |
| Yorkshire Dales Milenium Trust | Judy Rogers | 10 November 2016 |
| Charles Dickens | Isobel Stirk | 13 October 2016 |
| AGM | 8 September 2016 | |
| Open Meeting | 11 August 2016 | |
| Stories with Strings | Fools Gold | 14 July 2016 |
| The Call What He Made | Nigel Linge | 9 June 2016 |
| Lady ‘Randy’ Churchill | Pat Osborne | 12 May 2016 |
| The Oregon Trail | Ian Barclay | 14 April 2016 |
| Lantern Magic | Andrew Gill | 10 March 2016 |
| Local Date Stones | Mike Slater | 11 February 2016 |
| The Other Beatrix Potter | Michael Cullingworth | 14 January 2016 |
| Christmas Social | 10 December 2015 | |
| A Sign of the Times | Alan Hemsworth | 12 November 2015 |
| The Chinese Education System | Ian Mulley | 8 October 2015 |
| AGM | 10 September 2015 | |
| Open Meeting | 13 August 2015 | |
| Bess of Hardwick | John Sheard | 9 July 2015 |
| How Manchester Cotton wired up the world | Nigel Linge | 11 June 2015 |
| The Trough of Bowland deer | Nigel Neil | 14 May 2015 |
| Aspects of the Local NHS | tba | 9 April 2015 |
| Leighton Moss RSPB Reserve | David Mower | 12 March 2015 |
| The Brontes | Isobel Stirk | 12 February 2015 |
| Local Community Police Officer | Amy Sharrad | 8 January 2015 |
| Christmas with Bells on | Stanley Walmsley | 11 December 2014 |
| The Social and Political Satire of Gilbert and Sullivan | Bernard Lockett | 13 November 2014 |
| Fountains Abbey, Desolation to Dissolution | Glenda Hunter | 9 October 2014 |
| AGM | 11 September 2014 | |
| Coffee, Chat and renew membership | 14 August 2014 | |
| Why on Earth did They Invent That? | Ian Barclay | 10 July 2014 |
| Sudan | Prof. Frank Rhodes | 12 June 2014 |
| Ringing through the Changes | Stanley Walmsley | 8 May 2014 |
| Hypnotherapy | Paula Jones | 10 April 2014 |
| Mountains of Peace in the Balkans | Richard Hargreaves | 13 March 2014 |
| A Life spent watching paint dry | Frank Gordon | 13 February 2014 |
| Big Game, Small Month | Tony and Carol Dilger | 9 January 2014 |
| Christmas Social | 12 December 2013 | |
| Joseph Paxton | John Sheard | 14 November 2013 |
| Kids at School in Nepal | Arthur Benbow | 10 October 2013 |
| The social and political satire of Gilbert and Sullivan | Bernard Lockett | 11 July 2013 |
| A History of Puppets and Puppetry | Harold Hoggarth | 13 June 2013 |
| What was I saying? – Memory training | Alan Swann | 9 May 2013 |
| An Audience with Clara Schumann | Diana Spratt | 11 April 2013 |
| Can you believe your eyes? | Graham Alcock | 14 March 2013 |
| Mountain Landscapes | Peter Leeming | 14 February 2013 |
| The Birtwistles | Tony Stephens | 10 January 2013 |
| WaterAid | Dave Perrins | 8 November 2012 |
| Band of Hope and the Temperance Movement | Dr Annemarie McAllister | 11 October 2012 |
| AGM | 13 September 2012 | |
| Coffee, chat and renew membership | 9 August 2012 | |
| Voluntary Work in Cambodian Orphanges – Such a Good Deed | Jane Reas | 12 July 2012 |
| Royal National Lifeboat Institution | Martin Chappellow | 14 June 2012 |
| Sikh Religion and Culture | Mohinder Singh Chana | 10 May 2012 |
| Hiring Fairs | Stephen Caunce | 12 April 2012 |
| Bolton Abbey Estate | John Sheard | 8 March 2012 |
| A Parliamentary Life | Anne Cryer | 9 February 2012 |
| Wildlife Photography on Orkney and Shetland | Tony Dilger | 12 January 2012 |
| Christmas Social Event | 8 December 2011 | |
| Please to remember | Alan Hemsworth | 10 November 2011 |
| John Harrison Clocks | Don Metcalf | 14 October 2011 |
| AGM | 8 September 2011 | |
| Coffee, Chat and Renew Membership | 11 August 2011 | |
| Heart Research UK | Volunteer Lecturer | 14 July 2011 |
| Uphill all the way – The Snowdon Mountain Railway | Geoff Queen | 9 June 2011 |
| Autobiography of a Supertramp | John Helliwell | 12 May 2011 |
| Aspects of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal | Mike Clarke | 14 April 2011 |
| Vernacular Architecture of the Yorkshire Dales | James Innerdale | 10 March 2011 |
| Village Signs | Shirley Addy | 10 February 2011 |
| The building of Devil’s Bridge | David Smail | 13 January 2011 |
| Christmas Social Event | 9 December 2010 | |
| Hearing Dogs for Deaf People | Volunteer Lecturer | 11 November 2010 |
| Useless Latin | John Harrop | 14 October 2010 |
| AGM | 9 September 2010 | |
| Coffee, Chat and Renew Membership | 12 August 2010 | |
| Through Glass Brightly – stained glass windows in churches and public buildings | Margaret Curry | 8 July 2010 |
| Clitheroe Castle, its history and the new Museum | Rachel Jackson | 10 June 2010 |
| Thirty Years an Adventure | Sid Perou | 13 May 2010 |
| Victorian Shopping | Maurice Baren | 8 April 2010 |
| Life in the 1950s | Ian Dewhurst | 11 March 2010 |
| A Journey to Venice on the Orient Express | Mrs Ethne Bannister | 11 February 2010 |
| Life in the See | Dr David Hope | 14 January 2010 |
| Social Event | 10 December 2009 | |
| Other Folk’s Rubbish | Chris Helme | 12 November 2009 |
| Twenty Amusing Years in Sales and Marketing | Tim Forman | 8 October 2009 |
| AGM | 10 September 2009 | |
| Coffee, Chat and Renew Membership | 13 August 2009 | |
| Yorkshire Dales – A resident’s view | Geoffrey Queen | 9 July 2009 |
| The Singing Bone | Reginald LePla | 11 June 2009 |
| Beatrix Potter – the later years | W R (Bill) Mitchell | 14 May 2009 |
| The Origin of Surnames | Peter Watson | 9 April 2009 |
| Oh yes it is! – A history of Pantomine | Michael Cullingworth | 12 March 2009 |
| Yorkshire-whatever happened to the Ridings? | Michael Bradford | 12 February 2009 |
| Inside Pakistan | John Chapman | 8 January 2009 |
| Social Event | 11 December 2008 | |
| In Grandmother’s Footsteps | Alan Hemsworth | 13 November 2008 |
| Guide Dogs | Richard Chapman | 9 October 2008 |
| AGM | 11 September 2008 | |
| Coffee, Chat and Renew Membership | 14 August 2008 | |
| Singing for my Supper: five years in the life of a Westminster Abbey chorister | Tony Stephens | 10 July 2008 |
| An Enameller’s Life | Dorothy Cockrell | 12 June 2008 |
| Yorkshire Air Ambulance | Bob Smailes | 8 May 2008 |
| Lincoln from Roman Times | Tony Burkitt | 10 April 2008 |
| Travels in Pakistan | Borothy & Brian Burrows | 13 March 2008 |
| The gasman cometh – a lighthearted look at the history of Anaesthesia | Dr Chris Wright | 14 February 2008 |
| Why Digital is better ………. or is it? | David Holdsworth | 10 January 2008 |
| Social Event | 13 December 2007 | |
| Yesterday’s Humour | John Wallis | 8 November 2007 |
| Life and Colour in our Waters | Marine Conservation Society | 11 October 2007 |
| AGM | 13 September 2007 | |
Social Evening in Settle Rugby Clubhouse | 31 August 2007 | |
| Coffee and Chat with Subject Group Presentations | 9 August 2007 | |
| Medicine and Magic | Peter Watson | 12 July 2007 |
| Trench Art | John Hartley | 14 June 2007 |
| On Top of the World | Mr. Queen | 10 May 2007 |
| Arrive Alive! | Paul Sidwell | 12 April 2007 |
| Only Water | Andrew Walker | 8 March 2007 |
| Yorkshire Today | Dorothy and Brian Burrows | 8 February 2007 |
| South America (slides) | Tony Stephens | 11 January 2007 |
| Christmas Social Morning | 14 December 2006 | |
| The Fire and Rescue Service | Officer Keneth Beck | 9 November 2006 |
| The Mystery of Magnets | Phil Bamford | 12 October 2006 |
| AGM | 14 September 2006 | |
| Coffee, chat and renew membership | 10 August 2006 | |
| My life in crime | Lesley Horton | 13 July 2006 |
| Travels with my vocal chords | Valerie Baulard | 8 June 2006 |
| Life of the Brontes | Dudley Green | 11 May 2006 |
| Protecting your assets | Penny Hamilton | 13 April 2006 |
| Believe six impossible musical things before breakfast | John Bertalot | 9 March 2006 |
| Ingleborough and the Yorkshire Dales beyond | John Osborne | 9 February 2006 |
| Problems with Words | Alan Hemsworth | 12 January 2006 |
| Christmas Social | 8 December 2005 | |
| The Dalesman | Terry Fletcher – Editor | 10 November 2005 |
| The Work of a Magistrate | Mrs. S M R Foster, JP | 13 October 2005 |
| 4th AGM and Signing Up | 8 September 2005 | |
| Coffee and Chat | 11 August 2005 | |
| The Forbidden Beauty of Quasicrystals: a nanoscience adventure | Prof. Ronan McGrath | 14 July 2005 |
| Mathematics for Pleasure | Arthur Lupton and David Holdsworth | 9 June 2005 |
| The English Windmill | James Woodward-Nutt | 12 May 2005 |
| Swiss Tour – then and now | Peter Marshall | 14 April 2005 |
| In Their Lordships’ House | The Rt Rev Ian Harland | 10 March 2005 |
| Accent and Dialect | Dr Malcolm Petyt | 10 February 2005 |
| In the Steps of Lady Anne | Sheila Gordon | 13 January 2005 |
| Sounds Familiar- with words & music on the theme of The Family | 9 December 2004 (Quaker Meeting House) | |
| From both ends of the Pencil | Tom Hewitt | 11 November 2004 |
| Beeching – right or wrong? | Stan Hall (Skipton U3A) | 14 October 2004 |
| AGM | 9 September 2004 | |
| Coffee Morning and bring-&-buy | 5 August 2004 | |
| Reports from the Front | Katherine Carr | 1 July 2004 |
| Chief Education Officer for NYCC | Cynthia Welbourne | 3 June 2004 |
| Houses I have lived in | Alison Tyas | 6 May 2004 |
| The Yorkshire Dales National Park | David Butterworth | 1 April 2004 |
| Talk by Chief Constable of N. Yorkshire | Ms Della Cannings | 4 March 2004 |
| Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust | Iain Oag | 5 February 2004 |
| Winter Miscellany | 4 December 2003 | |
| ‘Mystery Speaker’ | 6 November 2003 | |
| Whither Psychology? Reflections from the side-lines. | Andrew Smith | 2 October 2003 |
| AGM & Enrolment Day | 4 September 2003 | |
| Members’ Get Together | 14 August 2003 | |
| Brought to Book | Margret Shaw | 10 July 2003 |
| How I came to live in sunnier climates | Barbara Lipscombe of Heysham | 12 June 2003 |
| Lakeland Authors | Bill Mitchell | 8 May 2003 |
| Craven, Harrogate & Rural District PCT | Brig. RJS Wardle OBE, Chairman | 10 April 2003 |
| Personal Reminisces | Dorothy Clay & Brian Birkby | 13 March 2003 |
| The Work of the Malham Tarn Field Centre | Adrian Pickes, Director | 13 February 2003 |
| The Work of the Airedale NHS Trust | Robert Allen, Chief Executive | 9 January 2003 |
| Better Government for Older People | Shelagh Marshall | 14 November 2002 |
| The Case for Alternative Medicine | Sue Asquith & David Ellis | 10 October 2002 |