Month: March 2017

Extreme Visits – Axe Throwing & Music Hall Tour

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OK, admit it, you never thought we’d descend to this, and to combine it with a music hall tour?! The Extreme Group aims to provide unusual opportunities to:-

  • Learn a diverse set of new skills ranging from sushi and Pizza making; Krav Maga; piloting a hovercraft; control a skid; Clay Pigeon Shooting; hunting for fossils in Milton Keynes; bell ringing, day time astronomy, BloKarting, Scuba Diving, Gliding, Ice Sculpting, Juggling, Axe Throwing or even lock picking.
  • Experience activities or places you may not wish to visit alone or feel might be age-inappropriate, such as, visiting “the IceBar”; a bell foundry, a day at the races, A Segway Trail, Slotcar Racing, explore Street Art or competing in a simulated 24 hour Nurburgring endurance race event
  • Challenge your limits with events such as Ice Karting, climbing over the O2, White Water Rafting, Abseil the Spinnaker, Ride Zipwire Velocity (the fastest in the World)

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Upcoming WT U3A Local History Group Meetings

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WT U3A Local History Group Meetings from March to September 2017

Below is an update to the schedule for the talks and visits of the Local History Group. The schedule takes us up to end of August and I am working on talks for September, October and November. Please note that there is no meeting in June but two in July. I have arranged for a visit to the Aylesbury Museum Archives in Halton and the best date they have is Monday 3rd July. I hope that there is sufficient variety of topics that you will find interesting.

Tuesday 28th March 2017

Barry Tomlinson has agreed to give us a talk on “The History of RAE Bedford”.

Construction of RAE Bedford began in 1947 with wind tunnels for testing up to Mach 5 and new airfield. Many of the well known aircraft, including Tornado, Jaguar & Harrier Jump Jet, as well as helicopters were tested at RAE Bedford. It has thus played an important part in our aircraft history and is a fascinating story.

Meeting is in the WT Chapel Room from 10:30 – 12:30pm. Entrance of £3.

Tuesday 25th April 2017

Hugh Grainger has agreed to give us a talk entitled “Wild, Wild Women”.

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