Sunday Strollers next walk 30th October

The next Sunday Strollers walk date has been changed from 23rd October to 30th October.  We will meet at the usual time 10.50 at Maghull Station.  If you have a bus pass please bring it with you.

img_098313 people joined us on 25th of September for a 5 mile walk from Moreton to Hoylake. The day
was breezy but sunnyand the cobwebs were certainly blown away. We had a very enjoyable Sunday lunch at The Ship in Hoylake.  We left Maghull at 11am and were back for 4pm.

 

Holiday Group

bletchBletchley Park & Burghley House
Fancy finding out how the Enigma machine really worked?
This is your chance; booking opens on the 3rd of October for a five day break around the Huntingdon/Cambridge area next September.
At £399.00 this includes half board accommodation in a four star hotel and
various excursions including a day at Betchley Park home of the spy masters.

 Click on the link to find full details of the holiday or see the Holiday Desk next Tuesday.

 

Tech and Science report

unnamedOur last meeting saw Norman Stalford on

“Move it, Shift it, Move it”, a very detailed, but excellent presentation on moving and lifting throughout the ages.

He gave deatailed numbers for the huge lifting capacities of the latest systems and ended with images of  the new dockside cranes in Liverpool.

Our next meeting is 28th on IoT – The Internet of Things

 

Water: our scarcest resource?

Did you know that half the hospital beds in the world are occupied by people with water shortage related problems?

Fresh water, dirty water, too much of it, too little of it!

Come and find out more, and express your views over a cup of tea/coffee at our discussion group on Thursday 22nd September 13.30-15.00

Venue: Melling Tithebarn, L31 1EE (round the corner from the Bootle Arms)

Entrance £1

 

U3A ANNIVERSARY BIKE RIDE

On Monday, 19th September 2016, our cycle groups celebrated our 10 year Anniversary, by cycling from Lydiate to Liverpool along the canal towpath. We decided to combine the event with the Leeds Liverpool Canal Bicentenary Celebrations, which also take place this year.

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October Speaker Meeting

On Tuesday, 4th October at 11am in the sanctuary at Maghull Baptist Church
George Sephton, the stadium announcer at Liverpool Football Club for 45 years, will be our visiting speaker. lfcGeorge will entertain us with his tales and with inside information from his long time with LFC.
He has a reputation as being a very entertaining speaker.
Whether you are ‘a red’ or ‘a blue’, please come along on Tuesday 4th to enjoy George’s entertaining and informative talk.
As usual the admission charge is only £1 (to cover the cost of hiring the church for the meeting).

Hightown to Waterloo

Thursday 8th Sept saw ten walkers assemble at Hightown Station for what could have been a very damp walk as the rain had been fairly constant up till then, however to use an old nursery rhyme “out came the sun and dried up all the rain”so off we set ,nobody fancied going over the sandhills so Pam Bennet knew of a new concreted track and led the way. On arrival at the Royal Hotel places had been reserved for us and we enjoyed a good lunch.

Bill Langham