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A school girl's war (General Meeting)
25th July 2026
At the July General Meeting we welcomed Mary Smith (photo), a former Headmistress who regaled the story of 'A school girl's war'. It was more than a story as evidence revealed the real lives of school girls at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls during World War 2. Mary had produced a book on the...
Sinatra The Musical at the Aldwych Theatre
21st July 2026
32 members of Bromley and Beckenham U3As attended this new musical about Frank Sinatra. Starting on New Year’s Eve 1942 a skinny 27-year-old Italian-American singer is about to step onto the stage of New York City’s Paramount Theatre and give a performance that will change music history. But...
Mamma Mia Singalong at Bromley Little Theatre
15th July 2026
Thanks to Bromley Little Theatre for providing their wonderful air-conditioned theatre for our Mamma Mia Sing-along. After a few technical hitches the film started and at every song, the words showed nice and large on the screen. With about 90 people in the hall, we nearly drowned out the...
u3a Bromley wins private tour of Cutty Sark
14th July 2026
I have no idea how, but I was awarded a private tour by the Greenwich museums after filling in a questionnaire on behalf of u3a Bromley. Their aim being to encourage u3as to visit. I invited group leaders and the committee to make a small party and five of us made the trip by train and DLR to...
Theatre Group visit to see The Watsons
4th July 2026
I love Jane Austin and her prose is super, so it was no surprise to me that when she left an unfinished novel someone would be asked to finish it and turn it into a play. The brilliant Laura Wade stepped up and The Watsons was born. The play opens with a bed, in which the snoring old Mr...
LOWE Group trip to Shoreditch
1st July 2026
We were treated to a tour of the Victorian Town Hall by their Cultural Programme Manager. She told us of its history both as a municipal building and then a venue for various activities after Shoreditch merged with Stoke Newington and Hackney in 1965. It is presently run by a Trust as a thriving...
Theatre Group trip to Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre
25th June 2026
On an extremely hot day it was really pleasant to sit in the cool Sondheim Theatre to watch a great version of Les Misérables musical with Ian McIntosh as Jean Varjean, Oliver Saville as Javert who played their parts particularly well. The rest of the cast were hugely enthusiastic in their...
Janie Ramsey's talk on The Windsor Style
23rd June 2026
Janie Ramsey told a packed recent General Meeting audience about the Iconic lifestyle of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. After time in the Bahamas and at the end of World War 2 they moved to the French Riviera to enjoy two swimming pools and sea bathing, chauffeured limousines, furniture...
Switzerland at Bromley Little Theatre (bar show)
20th June 2026
Bromley Little Theatre not only has a play in the main theatre every month, running for just over a week, it also has a monthly “bar” show in the area where people congregate for the main shows. These are always very intimate and now they have started having a matinee for these shows too, as...
General Meeting talk by Sohail Husain
7th June 2026
We had a very interesting speaker for our May General Meeting. The audience was totally engaged in the subject he presented. Sohail was born in 1951 to mixed-race immigrant parents who lived in London. They worked in London’s famous street markets. Leaving school he studied Geography at the...
