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News Sheet January 2019 Happy New Year! We hope you all had a very happy Christmas and wish you good health and happiness in 2019.

1 News Sheet January 2019 Happy New Year! We hope you all had a very happy Christmas and wish you good health and happiness in St Andrew s Church Our January meeting and all subsequent monthly meetings will be held in St Andrew s Church, Cheadle Road, Cheadle Hulme, SK8 5ET. There are plenty of parking spaces at the rear of the Church buildings but please observe the oneway system to access the spaces. Entrance to the car park is to the right of the buildings and exit to the left. Annual General Meeting The AGM will take place at the start of the February meeting. A quiz and a short entertainment will follow the tea/coffee break. Any items for inclusion on the agenda and nominations for the 2019 Committee should be sent to chair@chu3a.org.uk as soon as possible. We are looking for a new Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. Speakers Monthly Meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month at 2pm in St Andrew s Church, Cheadle Road, Cheadle Hulme, SK8 5ET. 3rd January The making of Blackpool John Doughty 7th February A.G.M.

2 Future Monthly Meetings 7th March T.E.Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) Dr Jennifer Palmer Committee Members 2018 Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary Treasurer Membership Secretary Groups Co-ordinator Events Events Website Non portfolio Walt Denning Bernadette Murray Robb vacancy Patrick Buttle Jackie Chang Anthia Frank Pat Vermes Shirley Cawthra Barry Richards John Broadbent Events Visit to Tabley House Thursday May 16 th 2019 A visit to Tabley House, a fine Palladian mansion just outslde Knutsford. There is a collection of English paintings, including works by Turner, Lely and Lawrence, as well as some fine furniture and a 17th century chapel which has a Burne-Jones window We are planning to travel by coach, leaving Heald Green at am and spending time in Knutsford before visiting the house in the afternoon. Cost: 16 to cover coach and tip; 5 for guided tour.

3 Groups Technology for Everyone Meetings take place at Heald Green Village Hall starting at 2pm. Tuesday 5 th February Using an image to understand physiology Penny Cristinacce Tuesday 5th March, 'Building the Big Ditch' - The Building of the Manchester Ship Canal Judith Atkinson Tuesday 2nd April, The History and Science of Prosthetic Limbs Diana Leitch (postponed from October 2018). Church Visiting Wednesday 6th March. A visit to the Yoshuran Synagogue, Coniston Road, Gatley, SK8 4AP. Details from Chris Read Local Amateur Theatre Friday January 25th, Brookdale Theatre. Father's Day by Eric Chappell. Booking January 3rd, Tickets Start Friday February 8th. Poynton Players. Barefoot In The Park by Neil Simon. Booking January 3rd, Tickets Start Friday March 15th. Players Theatre. Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton. Booking February 7th. Tickets Start Friday May 3rd. Brookdale Theatre. Sweet Charity by Cy Colman and Dorothy Fields. Booking April 4th, Tickets 9.00 Start 7.45 Friday May 24th. Poynton Players. Straight And Narrow by Jamie Chinn. Booking May 2nd. Tickets Start Friday June 21st. Stockport Garrick A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. Musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. Booking May 2nd. Tickets Start 7.30.

4 Music Appreciation Monday, 21st January at 2pm. Anyone for Haggis? Presenter: Terry Bridal Monday, 18th February at 2pm. Composers from the Late Romantic Era. Presenter: Bob Bromilow. Book Group 2 The next meeting is on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 at 10.00am in Café Unity Contact: Barry Richards Art Appreciation Thursday 17th January Art Appreciation Lunch at Bellinis in Cheadle. Meet at Thursday 21st February at 2pm in Heald Green Village Hall Michael Simpson Icons Thursday 21st March visit to Manchester Art Gallery Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing Thursday Evening Diners The next meal will be at the March Hare, Mill lane, Cheadle Hulme. SK8 3PG. on Thursday 17th January at 6.15pm for 6.30pm. There is an extensive menu and pre-ordering through the organiser is requested. Organisers: Walter and Philippa FitzPatrick Thursday 21st February; Trattoria D Agostino, 16 Sation Road, Cheadle Hulme, SK8 5AE. 6.15pm for 6.30pm. Organiser: Anne Denning. Board Games We next meet on Wednesday 23 January at Cheadle Library at 7.30 p.m. We will play Triominos.. Organiser: Philippa FitzPatrick

5 Group Co-Ordinator Day Art Appreciation Bernadette Murray-Robb 3 rd Thursday 2pm Board Games Philippa Fitzpatrick 4 th Wednesday 7.30pm Book Club 1 Pauline Millward 1 st Tuesday 9.45am Book Club 2 Barry Richards 3 rd Tuesday 10.00am at Café Unity. Bridge 1 Judi Cooke 2 nd & 4 th Tuesday 1.30pm Bridge 2 Judi Cooke 2 nd & 4 th Thursday 2pm Church Visiting Chris Read Computer Club Kelvin Vann 4 th Tuesday noon Evening Dining 1 Walter Fitzpatrick 3 rd Thursday Evening Dining 2 Bernadette Murray-Robb 2nd Tuesday French Conversation Julia Ball 1 st & 3 rd Monday 10.30am French Study Margaret Crowther 1 st & 3 rd Monday 10.30am German Susan Brayzier 4 th Wednesday 2.30pm German Intermediate Jean Cox 2 nd & 4 th Tuesday 10.30am Italian Pat Clayton Alternate Fridays pm Local Amateur Theatre Derek Moffitt Fridays Music Making Gwyneth Pailin 2 nd & 4 th Thursday pm Music Appreciation Terry Bridal 3 rd Monday pm Philosophy Paddy MacDonnell Second Tuesday 2pm Photography Neil Rackham 2 nd Tuesday noon Play Reading David Greenfield 3 rd Tuesday 2pm Poetry Discussion David Greenfield 1 st Monday pm Singing Pat Vermes 2 nd & 4 th Wednesday 2pm Spanish Hilary Lightfoot 2 nd & 4 th Tuesday pm Tai Chi (shibashi 18) and basic exercise Gaynor Johnson Thursday 10.30am Technology for Everyone Tina Menges 1 st Tuesday 2pm Walking (Strollers 1) Gillain Rowe Wednesday am Anne Webster at Swann Lane. Walking (Strollers 2) Margaret & George Rogers 2 nd Wednesday, 10.30am at Heald Green.

6 Looking Back Local Amateur Theatre It is not often I feel I should make any comment about any of the local amateur theatre productions that we visit during the year. A lot, of course, depends on the play but the production of Come Blow your Horn by Neil Simon during October should be commended. The cast did it proud. They all knew their lines and their performances were excellent. Well done Cheadle Hulme Players! Anne Webster. Pneumatic Conveying - A presentation by Roger Burgess on the 6th November 2018 From this descriptive yet breath-taking title, a goodly audience enjoyed an interesting journey through a technical subject on the ability to send materials from A to B by sucking and blowing. These materials varied from conveying Golf Balls, Contact Lenses, Tea and Coffee, Pills and Potions and, of course, cement and aggregates. Another application was conveying cash. This invoked an immediate audience response for those of us who remembered the Co-Op with their vacuum cash system of yesteryear. The system was officially described as a Capsule Conveyor. It was also noted that an earlier system using a form of zip wire was used. The documents and cash were zapped across the store using a catapult style mechanism. In those early times high tech solutions were not available, just a strong right arm! With great humour, Roger described the start of their business, by solving the cash evaporation problems of the Mersey Tunnel payment area brought about (it is rumoured) by the interesting skills of the local population. We now know that certain products require a Chopper Upper to convey things gently, that Rice Krispies demand the Dilute System of conveyance and how James Dyson has cleverly developed his carpet cleaners by using the Cyclone separation system used in the Pneumatic industry for years. Roger Law eloquently opened the meeting and introduced our speaker, and Derek Moffitt elegantly closed it by giving him thanks on our behalf. Peter Hobson Me and My Girl Last October Pat Vermes organised a trip to the Plaza Theatre in Stockport for a number members to see the comedy musical "Me and my girl". The cast of the Stockport Operatic Society was large and included some good singers and dancers. Sets and costumes were superb and the songs "Doin the Lambeth walk" and "the Sun has got his hat on" were well performed. The Lambeth walk when the Cockney couple Bill and Sally taught the "nobs" the song and dance routine was particularly jolly! The musical is set in the 1930's - a rags to riches story where Bill, the unrefined barrow boy from Lambeth, eventually inherits the title Earl of Hereford, the country pile and estate. At first Bill refuses the inheritance if he has to give up the Cockney Sally; however Sally becomes more ladylike so Bill becomes an Earl and marries Sally! A pleasant afternoon of entertaining escapism! Thanks to Pat for organising another musical outing. Peggy Dutton

Strollers 1 on Wednesday 14th November 2018. Eight of us started at the March Hare, Cheadle Hulme and enjoyed a 2 mile stroll along the Micker Brook as far as Demmings Road, Cheadle and back.

Thursday Early Evening Diners on 15th November 2018. A group of 14 dined at the Alma Lodge Hotel in Davenport, where a substantial meal from the set menu was selected. The theme was 'Italian'.

7 Strollers 1 on Wednesday 14th November Eight of us started at the March Hare, Cheadle Hulme and enjoyed a 2 mile stroll along the Micker Brook as far as Demmings Road, Cheadle and back. The newly metalled track followed the brook and passed through groves of trees in autumn colour. To finish the stroll we ate from a set menu in the March Hare and relaxed in convivial surroundings. Thursday Early Evening Diners on 15th November A group of 14 dined at the Alma Lodge Hotel in Davenport, where a substantial meal from the set menu was selected. The theme was 'Italian'. After an enjoyable meal and convivial company we departed, having already found volunteers to organise some meals in The Learning Aspect is based on finding and testing a suitable eatery, organising a meal and collecting and counting the payments, where appropriate. We usually pay for food, tea and coffee on a 'Tab', on a cash basis, and pay for bar drinks separately to simplify and speed up payments.help and advice is available from the Coordinator Walter FitzPatrick if required. The group was initially set up by Chris. Reed about 16 years ago and is still going strong. Scent Experience - A presentation by Florentina Anghel, Managing Director and Sales Manager, Aroma Prime Aromas by Design on 4th December The 20-year-old Aroma Prime company has two UK manufacturing facilities situated in the Rochdale area. Florentina told us about the company's aromas, claiming that they bring magical and immersive experiences to amusement parks, museums, hotels and many other widely differing public attractions. So it is important that the scents are evocative as well as safe for everyone. From lavender to wood-smoke, none of the 400 Aroma Prime scents cause allergic reaction but being synthetic the scents cannot be used on the skin. We are born with the closely related senses of taste and smell and the brain's Limbic system plays a major roll in controlling our moods, behaviour and emotions. Smell is the first sense humans develop. It impacts every part of our lives healthy memory, emotion, taste and time. Our brain makes association with smells the right nostril recognising the good smells and the left nostril the not so good. Smell regulates taste and, although closely related, if either the sense of taste or smell is lost the other will still function. Finally, after smelling a few sample pads of the product, we were reminded by the pad smeared with mulled wine that Christmas was a coming. We were also very happy to learn that peppermint boosts the brain, chocolate improves memory, cinnamon increases attention, and vanilla inspires happiness. Barbara and John Anderton

Visit to Shugborough Hall. Friday December 7th 2018. On a grey, windy December morning 20 intrepid travellers set off for Shugborough Hall.

8 Visit to Shugborough Hall. Friday December 7th On a grey, windy December morning 20 intrepid travellers set off for Shugborough Hall. On arrival, in sunshine, we walked or took a buggy through the parkland with some members taking in the farm on the way to the Mansion. First call was the tea-room then, suitably fortified, the Hall. The display in the Mansion reflected the achievements of two brothers: Thomas and George Anson, great grandsons of William Anson who bought the estate in George Anson joined the navy at the age of fourteen and rose to become First Lord of the Admiralty. In 1740 he embarked on a four year voyage to circumnavigate the globe, during which he captured a Spanish treasure ship and brought home a large fortune and a vast collection of mementos which are fittingly displayed on wooden crates in various rooms. George s treasure enabled Thomas to improve and run the estate where he was an enlightened landlord with an interest in developing agricultural practices. Thomas also travelled, though nearer to home, throughout England and Europe and to Egypt. Thomas was a patron of the arts and a prime mover in founding the Royal Academy which acquired a large collection of sculptures, paintings and books. Unfortunately most of his collection was sold at auction in 1842 to pay off debts incurred by his profligate descendant the first Earl of Lichfield. The Mansion tour ended with a small display of the photographic work of Patrick Lichfield. After the tour of the Mansion we were able to visit the extensive servants working areas in which we were only too aware of the onerous nature of their labours. A brisk walk across the park brought us to the coach at the end of a delightful and instructive visit. We thank Pat for organising this early Christmas outing. Hilary Lightfoot. Peggy Dutton and Hilary Lightfoot pictured at Shugborough Hall.

News Sheet. January Speakers. What was happening when Agatha Christie was writing? Dr. Jennifer Palmer

News Sheet. January Speakers. What was happening when Agatha Christie was writing? Dr. Jennifer Palmer News Sheet January 2018 Notice of AGM The Annual General Meeting is on Thursday 1 st February. Nominations are required for Committee members as set out in the letter sent to you at the end of last year.