Speakers

Monthly Meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month at 2pm in the

Methodist Church, Station Road, Cheadle Hulme, SK8 7AL.

September 6th Bee Keeping Alan Towse

Alan Towse is a local beekeeper and was the co-ordinator of this year's Stockport Beekeepers’ Beginners Course

October 4th Wellspring Peter Burns

The Wellspring is a charity, based in Stockport, which supports homeless people. Peter Burns was a councillor for 34 years and has been Mayor of Stockport Council.

News Sheet

September 2018

New Committee member

We are delighted to welcome Anthia Frank to the Committee. She was co-opted at the Committee

meeting on 9th August. Anthia is well known to members of the Poetry Discussion Group.

Change of Monthly Meeting venue

With effect from the January 2019 monthly meeting, the venue will change to St Andrews Church, 52

Cheadle Rd, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle SK8 5ET . It is hoped that this change of venue will be more

convenient for members who have difficulty with car parking at Cheadle Hulme Methodist Church.

The monthly meetings for the remainder of 2018 will be at Cheadle Hulme Methodist Church with the

December meeting being in the Hall.

We need your feedback!

A questionnaire asking for members’ feedback on CHU3A activities will be distributed at the

September monthly meeting and circulated to those members who receive the News Sheet by email.

Please return completed copies to chair@chu3a.org.uk or hand them in at the October monthly

meeting. Thank you!

Events

The People’s History Museum in Manchester

Wednesday, September 19th 2018

Time: 2pm to 4pm (tour and tea)

Tour will feature events from the Peterloo massacre to the present day,

Cost: £8 per person for guided tour and tea.

Public transport Organiser: Peggy Dutton

Me and My Girl

A visit to Stockport Plaza to see an afternoon performance of Me and My Girl by Stockport Operatic

Society

2.15pm on Saturday, October 20th 2018.

The cost will be £16.00 plus public transport. More details will follow nearer the time.

Organised by Pat Vermes.

Future Monthly Meetings

November 1st Wildlife and Travel Photography. Brian White

December 6th Christmas Party.

Visit to Shugborough Hall

A Christmas visit is proposed to Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire.

Friday, December 7th.

We will travel by coach, leaving Heald Green Community Centre at 10.00 a.m. and arriving in time

for an early lunch before visiting the mansion which will be decorated for Christmas.

Entrance for National Trust members is free; for non-members it is £12.35.

Cost of coach travel: £18.50 which includes a tip for the driver.

Groups

Church Visiting

Friday 21st September. A visit to Grove Lane Baptist Church, 26 Pingate Lane, SK8 7NP.

The contribution to the church will be £4.00, and many of the group will be lunching at the Church

Inn. If required, lunch will be £9.95 for two courses, but needs to be booked with the group by

Friday September 14th.

Details from Chris Read.

Technology for Everyone

Meetings take place at Heald Green Village Hall starting at 2pm.

Tuesday 2nd October Diana Leitch The History and Science of Prosthetic Limbs

Tuesday 6th November Roger Burgess Pneumatic Conveying

Strollers 2

Wednesday September 12th.

Our next walk is in Torkington Park and secret garden, with lunch at the Fiveways pub. We meet

at Heald Green village hall car park at 10.15 to leave at 10.30.

It is important that you let us know if you are coming, as there are roadworks in the area at present.

Walk leaders: Margaret and George Rogers

Board Games

Wednesday 26th September: UPWORDS

Wednesday 24th October: UPWORDS

We meet as usual at Cheadle Library: 7.30p.m. to 9.30p.m.

Art Appreciation

Thursday October 18th Guest speaker Michael Simson

Thursday November 22nd Visit to the Whitworth Gallery

Thursday December 20th Show and Tell, Quiz and Christmas nibbles

Computer Group

Tuesday, September 27th, at 10.00am at Café Unity in Heald Green.

We will be looking at "The ins and outs of Skype" .

Local Amateur Theatre

Friday September 14th. Stockport Garrick. Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn.

Booking September 6th. Tickets £10.50. Start 7.30.

Friday October 5th. Players Theatre. Come Blow Your Horn by Neil Simon.

Booking September 6th. Tickets £9.00. Start 7.45.

Friday November 30th. Poynton Players. One Man, Two Govnors by Richard Bean.

Booking November 1st. Tickets £9.00. Start 7.45.

Friday December 14th. CHADS. Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward.

Booking November 1st. Tickets £10.00. Start 7.45.

Friday January 25th, 2019. Brookdale Theatre. Father's Day by Eric Chappell.

Booking January 3rd, 2019. Tickets £9.00. Start 7.45.

Friday February 8th. Poynton Players. Barefoot In The Park by Neil Simon.

Booking January 3rd, 2019. Tickets £9.00. Start 7.45.

Friday March 15th. Players Theatre. Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton.

Booking February 7th. Tickets £9.00. Start 7.45.

Friday May 3rd. Brookdale Theatre. Sweet Charity by Cy Colman and Dorothy Fields.

Booking April 4th, Tickets £9.00 Start 7.45

Friday May 24th. Poynton Players. Straight And Narrow by Jamie Chinn.

Booking May 2nd. Tickets £9.00. Start 7.45.

Friday June 21st. Stockport Garrick A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.

Musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

Booking May 2nd. Tickets £10.50. Start 7.30.

Music Appreciation

Monday, 17th September at 2pm Music By Arrangement.

Presenter: Derek Moffitt

Monday, 15th October at 2pm. Things that Go Bump In The Night.

Presenter: Terry Bridal

Monday, 19th November at 2pm. M T W H A.

Presenter: Bob Bromilow

Monday, 17th December at 2pm. Christmas Choice - Bring a CD to play.

Presenter: Terry Bridal

Church Visiting Group

Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum near Alsager,

Cheshire

On Tuesday 17th July 2018 a group of 15 visited this

fascinating and beautiful place, set in a small hamlet in

rural Cheshire. We travelled by minibus and were

given a guided tour, tea/coffee and biscuits and a talk

on the beginnings of Primitive Methodism, which

functioned without ordained/licensed preachers and

services could take place anywhere; even in open

fields. We learned that it was a very "Grass

Roots" movement and was founded in the early 19th

century in Englesea Brook hamlet. It was influenced

by the social and economic factors of the day. and is a

milestone of social history relating to an age when

most people were disenfranchised, even after the

1832 Reform Act, and literacy was spreading rapidly.

We learned that a Malter was a benefactor and the

Temperance Standpoint was part of a boycott of the

practice of paying wages partly in tokens, which could be exchanged for alcohol in pubs owned by

the employers. The Primitive Methodists preferred cash. We also visited the churchyard opposite to

the chapel, where the founding father of the movement, Hugh Bourne, and some of the early

congregation are buried.

The visit was organised by Philippa FitzPatrick.

Report by Walter FitzPatrick.

Looking Back

On Sunday September 2nd

some Committee members attended the Artisan

Market at the Governors House in Cheadle Hulme. Here Shirley Cawthra

and Barry Richards chat with a visitor.

Group Co-Ordinator Day

Art Appreciation Bernadette Murray-Robb 3rd Thursday 2pm

Board Games Philippa Fitzpatrick 4th Wednesday 7.30pm

Book Club 1 Pauline Millward 1st Tuesday 9.45am

Book Club 2 Barry Richards 3rd Tuesday 10.00am at Café Unity.

Bridge 1 Judi Cooke 2nd & 4th Tuesday 1.30pm

Bridge 2 Judi Cooke 2nd & 4th Thursday 2pm

Church Visiting Chris Read

Computer Club Kelvin Vann 4th Tuesday 10 - 12 noon

Evening Dining Walter Fitzpatrick 3rd

Thursday

French Conversation Julia Ball 1st & 3rd Monday 10.30am

French Study Margaret Crowther 1st & 3rd Monday 10.30am

German Susan Brayzier 4th Wednesday 2.30pm

German Intermediate Jean Cox 2nd & 4th Tuesday 10.30am

Italian Pat Clayton Alternate Fridays pm

Local Amateur Theatre Derek Moffitt Fridays

Music Making Gwyneth Pailin 2nd & 4th Thursday pm

Music Appreciation Terry Bridal 3rd Monday pm

Philosophy Paddy MacDonnell Fridays monthly 2pm

Photography Neil Rackham 2nd Tuesday 10 - 12 noon

Play Reading David Greenfield 3rd Tuesday 2pm

Poetry Discussion David Greenfield 1st Monday pm

Singing Pat Vermes 2nd & 4th Wednesday 2pm

Spanish Hilary Lightfoot 2nd & 4th Tuesday pm

Tai Chi (shibashi 18)

and basic exercise Gaynor Johnson Thursday 10.30am

Technology for

Everyone Tina Menges 1st Tuesday 2pm

Walking (Strollers 1) 2nd Wednesday. 10.30am at Swann

Lane.

Walking (Strollers 2) Margaret & George Rogers 2nd Wednesday, 10.30am at Heald

Green.

The Cottonopolis Project is being coordinated by the Greater Manchester Network of U3As

of which Cheadle Hulme U3A is a member.

If you would like to become involved, please email chair @chu3a.org.uk