- This event has passed.
Open Monthly Meeting
May 17, 2018 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Bude & District U3A holds 10 OPEN MONTHLY MEETINGS a year with a Speaker. These are held at 2.30pm at the Parkhouse Centre, Bude on the 3rd Thursday of every month except October (our Annual General Meeting) and December (our Christmas Festivity).
The OPEN MONTHLY MEETINGS are free and include refreshments.
Visitors are welcome to come along to a meeting to see what we do and to decide whether they would like to join us.
This month’s presentation will be by Nicola Wills, and will be entitled
“The Barque John”: the fate of the emigrant sailing vessel in 1855
The year is 1855. Ellen, aged just 7 years old, was leaving North Cornwall for the epic voyage across the wide Atlantic Ocean. Annual Sunday School outings to Polzeath were her only experience of the water.
Ellen, her beloved parents and six siblings, were embarking on a wooden sailing vessel from Plymouth, for a new life in Canada.
The little maid knew nothing of the poverty her parents were experiencing. She was shielded with love, attention, sufficient food and warmth to sustain her and her adored older sisters and younger brother. Tho’ nothing in excess.
Sadly Ellen’s life was turned upside down by the excesses of someone who had scant regard for human life.