Author: Brian Ward

Due to a lady having to cancel her booking for this trip, she is offering it to anyone who would like to take her place, free of charge; everything has been paid for. Three days of visits, and two nights in a country house hotel, two lunches also included, and all entry fees!  What a…

Two places have arisen for this visit on Wednesday 22 August due to cancellation for health reasons.  Departure from Tesco Market Rasen at 07.30.  Cost £40 pp.  If interested please contact me and I will forward you the flyer with all details if you do not have it.  Brian.

This event has been running for two or three years now, and is highly praised by those who have seen it, including some of our own members. It takes place outdoors, at Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, on certain dates in August and September. It is an outdoors, evening, 90 minutes long spectacle celebrating the history…

 Dawn has advised that she cannot be present on both Thursday 26th April, and Thursday 31st May, for the usual weekly Keep Fit class.  However, she does not want any slacking to occur and questions will be asked at the following week’s class as to whether you have been exercising at home ….

Our force of fourteen members undertook a weekend expedition to foreign parts, seeking suitable natives for missionary purposes.  Very tall Netherlanders were encountered, but did not prove too hostile, even as they gazed down upon us. Very small  persons were also encountered, in very large quantities, but were tamed without too much trouble.  They cherished…

It started out a mizzly sort of day. Thankfully all of the 26 who were attending arrived well on time and we set off on the 2 hour journey to Halifax. As we arrived it was raining gently but thankfully it ceased as we broke into two groups and started our tour of the Piece…

A block booking of tickets has been made at LOUTH RIVERHEAD THEATRE, Victoria Rd, LN11 0BX,  on THURSDAY 03 MAY to see SWINGERS (previously known as Orgasm).  Price £10.00 per person.  7.30pm. Apparently a bit cheeky!! So possibly not for the less open minded members?  Travel by car (own or share) and keys may be…

Details below of two exhibitions this year which may well be of interest to many of you.

On Wednesday 18th July, a visit has been arranged for members of U3A and also of the Market Rasen Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club, to go to the new Bomber Command Centre at Canwick Hill, Lincoln.  After lunch, a visit will also be made to the RAF Memorial Collection at Wickenby Airfield.  The InternationalBCC comprises…

I have blocked off twenty seats for the performance on Wednesday 14 March, 7.30 pm.  Tickets cost £8.50 each.  This is a Louth Playgoers show. Booking Form will be available from the January Monthly Meeting onwards.  Travel by own car/car share. If anyone wants to return to the idea of a pre-show meal in Louth…

To reward the group’s members for another season of hard work, a collective photo of those attending the final class of 2017 was taken recently.   After the class ended, they adjourned to partake of a light, healthy and calorie conscious (ha, ha!!) buffet meal at Jossal’s Bistro, to round off their efforts.  Many thanks…

West Wolds member Terry Francis has one of his digital photographs included on the 2018 BBC Countryfile Calendar.  OK, not on the front page, but in the collage of Highly Commended images which are included on the newly published Calendar.  Well done, Terry! Speaking of calendars, our Digital Photography group has produced its own 2018…

Our most recent visit to the lovely Louth Riverhead Theatre found us for the first time sitting in the Studio, just as comfortable as the main auditorium but very intimate indeed – the players were almost standing on the toes of those in the front row! ‘The Shakespeare Revue’ was the evening’s entertainment, billed as…

In 1913 Edgar Henry Thorne, a Wragby carpenter, was asked by local schoolmaster Mr. Mumby to make him a beehive.  So began the business of E.H.Thorne (Beehives) Ltd. which to this day thrives at Wragby, albeit now located in much larger premises at the aptly named Beehive Industrial Estate, at Rand.  The original wooden office…