All meetings are held in Fairplace Church, Fairplace Terrace, Okehampton, EX20 1DN
3rd Tuesday monthly, 2.30pm start.
All we ask is for £1 towards venue hire, speaker expenses and refreshments.
There's usually parking in front of the Church for Blue Badge holders
17th November - No monthly meeting as it's the 25th Anniversary of Okehampton u3a so celebrating with our members only.
Tuesday 8th December - Christmas Lunch (Members only).
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19th January - David (Fitz) Fitzgerald, formally a Presenter on Radio Devon for many years, talking about the changing face of the media.
16th February - Chris Wiseman - My Flying Experiences Chris Wiseman is an aviation enthusiast, local historian and former NHS Ambulance Service worker for just under 40 years. From attending his first air show in the 1970s, becoming an Air Cadet, flying in helicopters, warbirds and a lot of other types of aircraft, this is the story of determination and living the dream.
16th March – Emma Cunis"Dartmoor's Industrial Archaeology and how Nature is Taking Back Over". Dartmoor’s seemingly wild landscape has been heavily shaped by thousands of years of human industry. Abandoned tin streams, engine houses, and quarries now tell the story of a moorland reclaimed by nature, where hardy gorse, mosses, and peat bogs swallow the relics of its industrial past
20th April – Simon Dell - Sermon’s in Stone – Rev’d Bray’s Bardic Boulders Simon’s talk describes the story of how these stones came to be in the Cowsic valley and the intriguing life of Edward Atkyns Bray – the Vicar of Tavistock.
18 May - John Davidson - Jack Rattenbury - The story of the infamous smuggler from East Devon, Jack Rattenbury nick-named the Rob Roy of the West
15th June - Dr Francis Burroughs - The World of Glass. Francis brings historic and valuable items of galass for members to examine for themselves. They illustrate the history of glass-making from 3000BC to the present day.
20th July - Peter Howard - Perceptual History. Using paintings and photographs, Peter shows how landscape tastes have changed over 300 years. What were once Dismal Marshes are now regarded as Precious Westlands.
August - no meeting