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
Tuesday 21st July
Sally Smith ‘Magnificant women in their flying machines’
This talk covers the entertaining and often exciting personal stories of British women who have achieved real firsts in aviation. This includes the first woman to fly over London in a balloon in 1785 and the extraordinary Edwardian lady who, against her husband's instructions, went to France and obtained a pilot's licence.
15th September
Pamela Vass ... The Story of Thomas Fowler.
One of the original pioneers of the computer was born over 200 years ago in Great Torrington in the west of England. His name was Thomas Fowler.
Had I known it would take weeks, months, even years of trawling the archives to find the answer I might have thought twice, but I was hooked. And I’m so glad I was.
20th October
Mike Griffiths - ‘Listening to the Enemy " explores the history of the St Erth Radio Listening Station during WWII, detailing its crucial role in intelligence gathering and code breaking efforts as part of the Bletchley Park network.
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
20th July
August - no meeting