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Hickling Broad U3A Newsletter March-April 2018 Hickling Broad U3A Newsletter March-April 2018 February Meeting: East Anglian Families of Influence Peter Lawrence spoke about several influential, well-known Norfolk Quaker families of the nineteenth century, including the Gurneys, the Barclays and the Buxton’s explaining their links to banking and commerce in the City of London and their philanthropic attitudes, illustrating his talk with slides. The families became connected through marriage. The Gurney banking family were known always to be ‘firm but fair’. The families spent their time “up and down the old A11” with large houses and estates in what was then the Essex countryside (now very much part of inner London) but within easy access to the city of London, while enjoying family holidays in Norfolk. Northrepps Hall was a popular destination for all the families to socialise together, enjoying games, family picnics and trips to the beach. Although much of the money in banking came from the proceeds of slavery the wealthy Quaker families were very concerned to improve conditions for ordinary people. Elizabeth Fry, nee Gurney campaigned for prison reform, particularly for women and made frequent visits to Newgate prison. Members of the Buxton family were also instrumental in ensuring that areas of countryside such as Epping Forest i.e. ‘The People’s Forest’ and Hatfield Forest remain undeveloped in perpetuity for all to enjoy. The long term connection with the Gurney family can still be seen in the Stratford area, although the buildings now have new uses such as a Tesco supermarket. There are also many references to these influential families in the street names in and around Norwich. The talk concluded with some drawings from eleven year old Ellen Buxton’s diary. March/April 2018 at a Glance: 2nd March Backgammon 5th March Country Dance 7th March Walking 7th March Bookworms 8th March Let’s Discuss It 9th March Voices of Hickling 9th March Main Meeting in the Barn 12th March Wildlife Walk 15th March British History 16th March Backgammon 19th March BLURR 21st March Pub Lunches 23rd March Art 26th March Gourmet Diggers 4th April Walking 4th April Bookworms 6th April Backgammon 9th April Country Dancing 9th April Wildlife Walk 12th April Let’s Discuss It 13th April Voices of Hickling 13th April Main Meeting in the Barn Next Members’ Meeting in the Barn: 9thMarch at 2.00pm 3 Oceans, 2 Equator Crossings, 1 Family. Gina Hilton will tell us of her sailing adventure round the world, a journey which involved 157 paper charts, 236 malaria tablets, 7 people and 30,000 nautical miles HBU3A Committee Monthly Update We would like to thank everyone for attending our February meeting when our old friend Peter Lawrence came and gave the most interesting presentation about East Anglian families of influence. We saw a large turnout of members old and new - it was a great afternoon which we all enjoyed. You will see details of this months speaker, Gina Hilton, elsewhere in the newsletter. Gina lives in Hickling and this is going to be a unique opportunity to hear about her families recent round the world sailing adventure. Our AGM is fast approaching in May and we would like to invite and welcome anyone who would like to join the committee. We keep our committee meeting frequency and duration to an absolute minimum, and we hold them the same day as the members meeting so as not take up too much of everyones valuable time. We are an open, relaxed and friendly team and hope that some of you might like to join us. You can talk to any one of us to find out more. You will undoubtedly be pleased to hear that, having reviewed our finances, the Committee are satisfied that there is no need to increase subscriptions for the forthcoming year. So your annual renewal fee , which will be due at the April meeting, will stay at £15 - we think you really can’t get much better value than that!! We are still in discussion with other local U3a’s about the possibility of forming a cluster group, and there are still several issues to consider, so rather than rush matters we will defer a members vote until we have got this all sorted out. Last, but by no means least, we would like to say a special thank you to the tea team for doing such a sterling job at our meetings, all help with teas is gratefully received, just let any member of the committee know at the next meeting if you are happy to pitch in. Also a huge thank you for the home made cakes brought along by some of our members to the meetings. This was an idea inspired by yourselves - long may it continue! From the Interest Group Co-ordinator: Following on from the suggestion that members were invited to suggest any new groups they would like to see developed, JL placed clip boards on each table at the last Barn meeting; there were only 2 responses of 1 person for each of the following groups. The suggestions were Creative Writing and Astronomy. In order to move forwards there needs to be more than one person interested in a topic. There has been no contact with suggestions by phone or mail to JL to date. If anyone is interested in either of the aforementioned subjects or indeed had any other ideas please contact the Group Coordinator The labels worn by Group contacts at the last meeting appeared to helpful in members identifying who to speak to if interested in a particular group Outings No suggestions for outings have been received Croquet The numbers are growing. It is planned to hold a short meeting of those interested at 4pm on 9th March after the main Barn meeting for 15 mins. or so to try and take the group forward. All those who have shown interest have been contacted by e-mail or phone. However if anyone else wants to come along please do so: they will be very welcome Julie Liggitt Interest Groups: Art 4th Friday (2.00pm-4.00pm) in the Methodist Hall The Art Group meet on the 4th Friday each month at the Methodist Hall in Hickling 2 – 4pm. 11 of us got together on Friday 23 February when several of us got started on the work intended for the mini exhibition in August while others carried on with work already begun. If you would like to join us, please give me a call or drop me an email. Backgammon 1st and 3rd Fridays at the Pleasure Boat Inn (2.00pm-4.00pm) The next backgammon meetings will be on 2nd March, 16th March and 6th April in the Pleasure Boat pub. Boards are provided we welcome new members - instruction can be given. Come along and join us. BLURR – The Camera Group 3rd Monday each month at The Hickling Barn (2.00-4.00pm) Bring and Brag. (Portraits) This months topic - Portraits - was well represented with lots of examples to peruse. After some debate Sue Badger’s portrait of a woman was chosen. The deciding factors being composition and lighting. Nice one Sue. Martin led the group for a ‘natural light’ portrait session. Light was controlled by closing / opening the shutter doors on the windows. Ray was volunteered to be the model. Many pictures were taken as the light, and the models position, was varied. A most constructive session. The group agreed to produce another calendar (2019) for charity this year. The theme was agreed as ‘North East Norfolk’. Photographic outings: John agree to find out the entry costs for a group to visit the museum of the Broads and Dorian suggested an evening visit to central Norwich. The next BLURR meeting will be at at The Barn at 2pm - 4pm on 19th March 2018 'Bookworms' Reading Group 1st Wednesday each month (pm) Bookworms meet on the first Wednesday of the month and we take turns to host our meetings. The host will have chosen the book to be discussed. On 3 February we welcomed our 12th Bookworms member, Sue. We discussed 'Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither' by Sara Baum. A lonely chap befriends a dog after seeing an advert in a shop window and together they go on an extraordinary journey. This book is quite well written and created a good discussion even though many of us decided it was quite a strange story line with a few loose ends and unanswered questions! For March we will discuss 'The Secret of Not Drowning' by Collette Snowdon. British History 3rd Thursday of each month, 2.00pm At the last meeting of the British History Group, the brief was to look at the changes in medical practice as a result of WW1, as part of the Group’s theme to recognise the end of WW1 100 years ago during this years programme. The status of medical services at the beginning of WW1were noted along with some historical background about how the weapons of war had advanced and therefore the increased lethality of the weapons with the reduction in hand to hand fighting and more use of high explosive shells, machine guns gas and tanks. All of this brought about new injuries to be treated in vast numbers Some of the improvements were the institution of the triage system of dealing with causalities (although this was not without its faults), greater understanding of the bodies’ reaction to trauma and the need to replace blood loss as soon as possible to prevent shock and as a consequence blood banks were set up. There was improvement in Psychiatric services once Shell Shock had been recognised as an illness.
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