Introducing our first ever History Highlight Festival! A jam packed programme of talks workshops and performances. With each History Highlight festival focusing on a new topic, we are excited to announce this year’s History Highlight is Fashion, inspired by Trowbridge’s rich textile heritage. This brand new, four day festival culminates in our Fashion Forum, a Read more

Are, or were you a recorder player.There is the possibility to start a new group to play for pleasure.If you feel you are too rusty or apprehensive, fine, go for it!Everyone is welcome. We have music for all.If you can play treble, tenor or bass, you're even more welcomeIf needed we are also happy to Read more

The Trips group are planning excursions to ABBAPHONIC and Let’s Face the Music at the Royal Albert Hall in late 2024. If you are interested more details are in the Events section of the website Read more

The Local History group relaunches on Tuesday 26th September. We will meet at 2.00 in the lounge at St Thomas' Church, Trowbridge. The programme for the first three months is as follows: September 26th Wansdyke Alan Soldat October 24th Stourton before Stourhead Stuart Raymond November 28th The Somerset Coalfield Peter Collier Please note a change Read more

There will be no meeting at the Guide Hut this Wednesday (13 September) as the speaker is unable to make it and we are going to the dig where he is working instead. Please contact the for details Read more

The recent presentations to the History Group have been interestingly varied. In March we visited Trowbridge Museum for a look behind the scenes, and in April David Feather showed us some wonderful pictures in his talkon “Gardens in Art”. Anthony Hudson amazed us in May with his stories of the time of the Raj in Read more

Nine u3a members visited the Talos Gallery near Calne, where the owner Richard Atkinson-Willes, and his wife Kate, entertained us. We had an informative illustrated talk on the history and techniques of casting bronze, an art that can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians. Richard is asculptor by profession, but bought a foundry near Read more

Another overcast day, this time in July, we left Trowbridge for Bishops Lydeard in Somerset for the steam train to Minehead. Due to heavy traffic in places, we were a little late but they held the train for us. It was lovely to sit back and meander through the beautiful Somerset countryside, with the sun Read more

In the middle of June, members enjoyed a trip to Brownsea Island, inDorset – we took a short ferry trip from Poole Harbour out to theisland (we love a boat trip!). A National Trust volunteer greeted us,then went on to give us information about the history of the islandand its connections with the Scout Movement Read more

It was an overcast May morning as we left Trowbridge to cross the border into Wales, our destination Castell Coch (Red Castle), near Cardiff – a fairytale castle rising from the woods of Fforest Dawr. We arrived in good time, only to find our coach parking spot taken up by a number of vans. On Read more