On Friday April 25th, twelve members of Newham’s U3a, went on a Forest Gate Freedom Walk led by Peter Ashan. We were joined by three people who work with Peter in his various voluntary groups based in Waltham Forest. The walk started at Forest Gate Youth Zone and finished at Clapton Community Football Club. We stopped at various points of historical interest along the way including, the mural of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the site of the Underground Club ( featured in one of Forest Gate’s murals), Earlham Grove and Walter Tull. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and interesting morning. Apologies I was so engrossed I only took a photo at the end at Clapton football club.
I have also included a link below which introduces Peter and a few of the things we saw today.
Here is the programme of walks and gallery visits for June.
There are some spaces still for some sessions: David Lloyd's NPG visit 9th June Freda Dahl-Nielson Georgian heroine 25th June Richard Pusey's Whitehall walk 29th June Elena Paolini Guildhall Art Gallery 30th June
All events are £10, no refunds. The sessions from June will launch on Thursday 21st May 2026
The next full programme of walks for July can be found here and on the events page of the website. The sessions for July will launch on Sun 28th June '26 from 10.00
As members of Newham U3A you can access all the free events, workshops and talks covering a host of different subjects offered by the National U3A trust.
You can get monthly updates by joining their mailing list. Look at the national U3A website: search for u3a - Online Learning Events
