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Jane Eyre at Bromley Little Theatre
14th September 2024
A group of almost 40 members of Bromley and Beckenham U3A theatre groups attended the Saturday matinee of Jane Eyre (see review below). These plays are always excellent and there is a monthly play on the main stage lasting 10 days and a bar show in between. Do check them out if you haven’t...
Theatre Group tour of the Globe Theatre
12th September 2024
44 members of the Theatre Group assembled at The Globe Theatre for a tour and visit to a new exhibition. With our headsets all working, hopefully, we went round to the riverside entrance and were told about this reproduction of the original theatre of 1599 being built due to a trust founded by Sam...
Oliver tickets available
5th September 2024
The Chichester Festive production of "Oliver" is coming to the Gielgud Theatre. The theatre group has tickets for this available for the matinee on Wednesday 19 March 2025 in the dress circle and a few in the rear stalls at a price of £67.50 pp This spectacular new production of...
Latest Newsletter available
3rd September 2024
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All Hands Garden group visits Kings Cross Gardens
2nd September 2024
Eighteen of the group met up at Kings Cross for a guided tour of the gardens there. Our guide was Des, the head gardener who had worked on the gardens for nearly 14 years and was clearly passionate about them. As a bonus, we also had Linda from the Visitor Centre who could fill in with...
Art Appreciation Group
1st September 2024
Our group meets on Wednesday mornings alternating between face-to-face meetings in the Churchill Theatre and online meetings via Zoom. We look at a selection of large, projected images of paintings and members discuss them. In the summer we looked at landscapes by British artists, beginning in...
Elle group visits to Reading
22nd August 2024
In August the Elle group made three trips to Reading. Look through the image gallery below to see all the places explored on their trips. ...
New tennis group starting
6th August 2024
A new tennis group is starting at Bromley Lawn tennis club, every Thursday morning at 10am, starting on 15th August. Numbers are limited as we only have the use of two courts for 90 minutes, £3 charge per person. If you would like to go on the list, please contact click here for contact...
Daytime Disco for the Summer
6th August 2024
The U3A Daytime Disco will be running every week through the summer, Tuesday afternoons from 2-3pm at Bromley Little Theatre rehearsal Rooms. Come into the courtyard and you will see the Disco sign on the door. Everyone is welcome, free dancing to music from the fifties, sixties and seventies. ...
Wider Horizons Group visit to Eltham Palace
5th August 2024
These are some pictures with descriptions from the Wider Horizons Group visit to Eltham Palace on Sunday 14th July. Floral exhibits in the main hall mostly depicted famous historical figures who had links with Eltham Palace. It was Edward IV’s most important country residence and he...
Bromley’s unique Film Studies Group re-starts in October
2nd August 2024
Newer members won’t know that u3a Bromley boasts a Film Studies group, delivered by our member, who has 35 years’ experience of the subject, as a lecturer in FE and higher education. An affable, leisurely, friendly amble through aspects of film criticism (the role of a director, the...
A new Elizabeth Line Explorer's group
2nd August 2024
Our ELLE group - Elizabeth Line leisurely Explorers - set up to travel the Elizabeth Line from Abbey Wood onwards) has proved immensely popular. So much so that many people who joined later in the group’s life, would like to start at the beginning at Abbey Wood and follow it through all the way...
Aggravated by Android? Exasperated by email? We can help.
26th July 2024
Aggravated by Android? Exasperated by email? Irritated by your iPhone or iPad? Maddened by your Mac? Rattled by Ringo? Wound up by Windows? We can probably help. Drop in to the Richmal Crompton pub (opposite Bromley South Station) any Thursday or on the 1st or 3rd Monday each month at...
Bromley's latest new members getting connected
25th July 2024
Our welcome social for new members is held monthly with the aim of helping our ‘newbies’ get the most out of their membership. The meeting today, 25th July, was particularly vibrant with several members getting ‘hooked up’ on WhatsApp so they can meet up and socialise. This could be...
Health and Wellbeing Programmes (update)
17th July 2024
Bromley Well ran several Health and Well-being Programmes for u3a Bromley Members in 2023 and early 2024. Over 60 Members signed up and took part in these and are now managing their health differently. They were grateful for the opportunity to attend. Click on the link to see a Video made...
SIX at Churchill Theatre (Theatre Group)
14th July 2024
29 Theatre group members and family made it to the Churchill Theatre to see Six on Sunday afternoon 14 July. The story in a nutshell: Henry VII’s wives posthumously get together, form a girl band and present a show in which they each perform a solo to plead their case for being the most famous...
Theatre Group walk with Kate Boyle
11th July 2024
A group of 18 members assembled at St Pancras Station for our annual July Walk with guide Kate Boyle. As always, we were amazed by Kate’s knowledge as she led us by the Francis Crick Institute and to St Pancras Old Church and churchyard where we heard about the Hardy Tree and the people buried...
u3a Bromley Positive Ageing Group
11th July 2024
The Positive Ageing Group came into existence at the beginning of 2024 when we read The Ten Steps of Positive Ageing by Guy Robertson. We believe age is a figure and we do not accept the stereotyping of older people. We are taking a Topics led approach in our discussions with the Topics...
History of Fashion group
9th July 2024
Following our recent study of Georgian Fashion we have a group outing to the Wallace Collection on Friday 19th July. This free jewel of a museum in Manchester Square is especially rich in 18th Century art and furniture. We will be meeting in the museum cafe from 10.30 am if anyone would like...
Brief Encounter at Bromley Little Theatre (Saturday matinee)
6th July 2024
Well our group were all wondering how this was going to be portrayed on the stage and if we needed our hankies! We shouldn’t have feared because as always BLT did not disappoint, and we didn’t need our hankies. Emma Rice’s innovative adaption of the film was very similar in story to the...
