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10th February 2026 at 14:00

Tales from Cefn Mably

Paul Busby

City URC, Sanctuary

Past speaker Paul Busby will deliver another of his wonderful presentations to us. Cefn Mably, residence of an unscrupulous sheriff, loyal royalist, dancing baronet, steadfast Jacobite, and the odd visiting bishop (with a penchant for peeping). A site which started with the powerful Mabel, Countess of Gloucester and ended up a TB hospital after the […]

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10th March 2026 at 14:00

Grandad was a Rum Runner

Philip Tomas

City URC, Sanctuary

Grandad was one of the ‘Home Children’ sent to Canada in the 1920s aged 13 as a farm labourer who became involved in bootlegging. A story full of intrigue and humour promises Cardiff u3a speaker, Philip Tomas.

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14th April 2026 at 14:00

Hitler’s Favourite Spy

Graham Duke

City URC, Sanctuary

Graham Duke returns with his latest presentation: set during WW2 In 1941 the German military employed a young Spaniard who had turned up at their embassy in Madrid, offering to spy against the British. He was smuggled to England where he obtained a lot of useful information, so much so that Hitler himself took a […]

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12th May 2026 at 14:00

The First Welsh Film Star

Stephen Lyons

City URC, Sanctuary

A presentation by Stephen Lyons

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