| Event type: | Monthly meeting |
| Date: | Mon 13 Jul 2026 |
| Time: | 10:00am - 12:00pm |
| Venue: | St Margaret’s United Reformed Church, N3 1BD |
| Booking: | Note that booking is required. |
In 2014, NLU3A member Peter Cox embarked on an extraordinary project. Convinced that people born between the wars were a forgotten generation, he decided to interview over 120 members of London U3As who were born in this period, focusing on their childhoods and adolescence. He and his editor Sheelagh Neuling then transcribed the interviews and sorted their comments into 23 chapters – from first memories, through school, wartime evacuation, adolescence, to courtship and marriage. The resulting book, Growing up in London, 1930–1960, was published in 2015.
In this illustrated talk, Peter will read extracts from the book and invite audience participation.