2026

Thursday 6th August 2026 General Meeting - Mike Barbakoff gave us an interesting talk about the secret 1939-1945 war activities in the St Albans area

Wednesday 15th July 2026 New Members Meeting - The committee invited all new members for a coffee, cake and chat morning

Thursday 2nd July 2026 General Meeting - Dr. Peter Altman gave us a presentation on the subject 50s and 60s

Thursday 4th June 2026 General Meeting - Summer Social

Thursday 7th May 2026 General Meeting & AGM - Andrew Baker gave us a talk about the life of Charles Dickens

Thursday 2nd April 2026 General Meeting - Andrew Smith gave us humorous stories and poems about Dogs and Holidays

Thursday 5th March 2026 General Meeting - Ben Lord gave us a talk about Fred Finn "The World's most travelled man" and the story of Concorde

Thursday 5th February 2026 General Meeting - Arthur Shelley gave us a talk about his "50 years in the Met Police"

Thursday 8th January 2026 General Meeting - Dr Tony Berk, a St Albans guide, presented a talk entitled "City steeped in history", about the history of St Albans

2025

Thursday 4th December 2025 General Meeting - Christmas Party

Thursday 6th November 2025 General Meeting - Suzi Clarke gave us a talk entitled "An Eventful Life" about her work life as a director in the events industry and beyond

Wednesday 22nd October 2025 Group Organisers Meeting - We welcomed all Group Organisers and general meeting helpers to a coffee, cake and chat morning

Thursday 2nd October 2025 General Meeting - Geoff Lambert gave us a very interesting talk about Medical Detection Dogs

Thursday 4th September 2025 General Meeting - Bill Hamilton gave us talk entitled "Oh No Not You Again", about his time in broadcasting

Wednesday 20th August 2025 New Members Meeting - The committee invited all new members for a coffee, cake and chat morning

Thursday 7th August 2025 General Meeting - Mike Barbakoff gave us a talk about the World War 2 History of Bletchley Park

Thursday 3rd July 2025 General Meeting - Simon Keable gave a talk about the writers and artists that gravitated to Tahiti in the 1920s and 30s

Thursday 5th June 2025 General Meeting - Summer Social

Thursday 1st May 2025 General Meeting & AGM - Alan Mordey from Hertfordshire Constabulary gave us a talk about “Fraud and Cyber Crime Prevention”

Thursday 3rd April 2025 General Meeting - Howard Slater told us about singers and groups from the 1930s, 40s and 50s

Thursday 6th March 2025 General Meeting - Alex Leger gave us a talk about how he got into TV and the time he spent in various roles for the programme Blue Peter

Thursday 6th February 2025 General Meeting - Andrew Baker gave a talk entitled George Orwell: Prophet of Today’s World, about the life of George Orwell

Thursday 2nd January 2025 General Meeting - Paul Berwick gave a talk on The Life and Times of Eddie Chapman, an English criminal and wartime double agent spy

2024

Thursday 5th December 2024 General Meeting - Christmas Party

Thursday 7th November 2024 General Meeting - Howard Slater gave a talk entitled “Old Blue Eyes” about the life of Frank Sinatra

Wednesday 23rd October 2024 Group Organisers Meeting - We welcomed all Group Organisers to a coffee, cake and chat morning

Thursday 3rd October 2024 General Meeting - Simon Keeble-Elliot gave us a talk entitled "Utterly Immoral"

Wednesday 25th September 2024 New Members Meeting - The committee invited all new members for a coffee, cake and chat morning

Thursday 5th September 2024 General Meeting - Martin Orkin gave us a talk about how the music of the 1950's influenced the music of the 1960's

Thursday 15th August 2024 Diabetes Talk - This talk by Ethel Tumusilime was about how we might avoid getting Diabetes

Thursday 1st August 2024 General Meeting - Suzi Clark gave a talk about her life from her childhood through to her varied career, marriages and becoming an author

Thursday 4th July 2024 General Meeting - Kate Lloyd-Davies gave us a talk about the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Service

Thursday 6th June 2024 General Meeting - Summer Cafe celebrating 10 years of the Chiswell Green u3a

Thursday 9th May 2024 General Meeting & AGM - Chen Tsui from the Hertfordshire Police Serious Fraud and Cyber Unit told us about “Cybercrime and Fraud Prevention”

Thursday 4th April 2024 General Meeting - Andrew Baker gave us a talk entitled The Anatomy of the NHS

Thursday 1st March 2024 General Meeting - Colin Oakes gave us a talk entitled Where Did That Saying Come From?

Thursday 1st February 2024 General Meeting - Andy Smith gave us a talk entitled Mysteries and Conundrums

Thursday 4th January 2024 General Meeting - Peter and Christine Padwick gave a talk about The Story of Music Hall