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Speaker List SPEAKER LIST WEBSITE ADDRESS (personal contact details are not suitable U3A LOCATION SPEAKER TOPIC for inclusion on the website) STEPHEN RICHARDSON A private view of a Victorian artist www.stephen-richardson.com Ludlow SIMON MARTIN Shropshire based storytelling www.storybodger.com Ludlow GRAHAM SHORT Hands of a Genius – micro-engraving www.diannemannering.co.uk Ludlow Origin of Remembrance poppy and tomb of the BARRY PICKEN Rotary email address available Ludlow unknown warrior DR MICHAEL LEACH Photographing wildlife (various talks) www.michael-leach.co.uk Wrekin STEPHANIE GREY SMART Sink or Swim 15 years exploring on a narrow boat www.waterwayschaplaincy.org.uk Market Drayton JACQUELINE SMITH Chocolate www.novachocolates.co.uk Market Drayton JOHN CHRISTOPHER Six Thousand Years with clay Albrighton Pottery, Wolverhampton Market Drayton HAZEL GRIFFITHS At Sea Hazeljgriffiths.net Market Drayton CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS The Alzheimers society Alzheimers website (for your area) Wellington The work of a Samaritans volunteer Samaritans website (for your area) Wellington BRUCE LAWSON The Life of Charles Rolls Bruce Lawson website Wellington DOROTHY NICOLLE Shropshire Churches www.nicolle.uk/me Wellington Wellington JEREMY DERRICK The work of a practising Homeopath www.shrewsburyhomeopath.co.uk Wem BRIAN NELSON The Shrewsbury and Newport canals Trust cms.snct.co.uk/ Wellington RICHARD PARTINGTON The work of the Telford and Wrekin Council Council website Wellington LYNNE SUDDES Age UK Age UK website (for your area) Wellington PAUL SHUTTELWORTH Radio Shropshire Radio Shropshire website Wellington TOBY NEAL A History of Wellington Shropshire Star website Wellington 1 SPEAKER LIST www.chocolategourmet.co.uk JANETTE ROWLATT Chocolate Gourmet Bridgnorth WOLFGANG Cwm Weeg - gardening in the Dolfor Hills http://www.cwmweeg.co.ukhttps://cwmweeg.co. Oswestry uk/ GORDON DICKINS A Writer’s Shropshire http://www.marywebbsociety.co.uk/ Oswestry JIM ALMOND Nature in Focus https://shropshirebirder.co.uk/ Oswestry ELLIE TARGETT Another Man’s Shoes http://comedians.co.uk/profiles/ellie-targett/ Oswestry (Norwegian resistance) https://arvensisecology.co.uk/about/32-01-mark- MARK DUFFELL Darwin – The Botanist. A Passion for Plants Oswestry duffell The Historic Pleasure Grounds of Shropshire’s https://blackbritishhistory.co.uk/2015/advolly- ADVOLLY RICHMOND Oswestry Hardwick Hall richmond/ NIGEL JONES Insects of the Marches http://vc40insects.yolasite.com/ Oswestry (Entomologist) Paradise of the Neotropics http://www.keithofford.co.uk/ Oswestry KEITH OFFORD Acton Scott Historic Working Farm https://www.actonscott.com/historic-working- Oswestry TAM BURGESS farm CECIL HAYWARD Hayward 4 Music https://hayward4music.com Oswestry TIM COOPER-COX LPA (lasting power of attorney) Made simple http://www.lpamadesimple.co.uk/ Oswestry Pictures In Harmony – A brand new show https://wolverhamptonwomensluncheonclub.blo Oswestry IAN TEMPLETON gspot.com/2017/05/pictures-in-harmony-hilary- and-ian.html RICHARD BIFIELD Best of Shropshire’s Heritage & Landscape https://richardbifield.blogspot.com/ Oswestry Around the ‘Stans’ http://www.diannemannering.co.uk/peter- Oswestry PETER REDDISH reddish/ Whitchurch PHIL REVELL The Mayflower Children http://home.btconnect.com/revell101/words/ Shrewsbury Wem Whitchurch PHILIP CAINE Barrow to Baghdad and Back https://www.philipcaine.com/ Shrewsbury Wem KATE INNES Author of Medieval novels www.kateinneswriter.com Much Wenlock DOROTHY NICOLLE Shropshire During the Second World War http://www.nicolle.me.uk/ 2 SPEAKER LIST https://www.ironbridge.org.uk/explore/coalport- KATE CADMAN History of Coalport China Much Wenlock china-museum/ KATE INNES The Errant Hours http://www.kateinneswriter.com/ Much Wenlock ANDREW CRABTREE Christmas Songs and Carols https://julesmail67.wixsite.com/andrewcrabtree Much Wenlock PAUL FRANCIS & BEVERLEY “Love Lines" – romantic poems from different ages http://www.bridgnorthwriters.org/index.htm Much Wenlock FRY DOROTHY NICOLLE Shropshire’s Oddities http://www.nicolle.me.uk/ Much Wenlock https://www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/pine STUART EDMUNDS Elusive Shropshire Wildlife Much Wenlock martenproject MIKE WATKINS & WILMA Remembering the Swinging Sixties http://www.inthestickstalks.co.uk/index.html Much Wenlock HAYES https://www.facebook.com/MalcolmWhittallCart MALCOLM WHITTALL Cartoons Part 2 - Weird and Wonderful Animals Much Wenlock oonist/ SARAID JONES Attingham Park Treasures https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/attingham-park Much Wenlock MAX KEEN History of Dudley Castle https://www.facebook.com/keenhistorytalks W’Hampton Dr BOB BIBBY Offa’s Dyke https://www.bobbibby.co.uk Bridgnorth 3 .
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