The current u3a friends newsletter has been out for a couple of weeks, but it's always a good time to sign up to receive your free regular issues. Just go to our links page for more details.

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Hot off the press is the latest u3a West Midlands Newsletter (May 2025), so why not take a look at our Newsletters page.

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The warm weather as well as the monthly general meeting welcomed historian David Fry from the Coventry Society for a talk on Coventry's post-war rebuilding and the roles of the architects Donald Gibson and Arthur Ling. David explained how pre-war…

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My father spent VE Day 1945 aboard the destroyer HMS Bulldog in the English Channel on a mission to German occupied Guernsey. As the German government had not officially sanctioned the surrender of the Channel Islands commander, Admiral Hoffmeier, refused…

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The official end of the Second World War in Europe was 8th May 1945, but it wasn't as simple as it might seem. The Nazis surrendered at the Allied Supreme Headquarters in Reims in the early hours of 7th May,…

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Coventry Sherbourne u3a was well represented at the recent funeral of one of its founder members, Dorothy Mayo. Many of us have fond memories of Dorothy who contributed greatly to our branch in the early days and continued to do…

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Why not pencil in the dates of our activities in the great outdoors. There's a short walk at the Miners' Welfare Park in Bedworth on 23rd April, or if you are feeling less energetic you could meet your u3a friends…

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April's meeting was a talk by Ian Malins a search manager from Warwickshire Search and Rescue. Everyone's heard of Mountain Rescue but Ian and 80 or so other volunteers perform Lowland Rescue which as a quick show of hands demonstrated…

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