INSERT INTO `CU3A_OpenMeetings`(`Description`, `DateAndTime`, `MaxNo`, `CurrentCount`, `Title`, `OfficerID`, `MeetingTypeCode`, `ActiveFlag`, uuid) VALUES ('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 First World War, Cefn Mably played an important and colourful role in the history of the area.
Not one to miss!','2026-02-10T14:00:00+00:00',95,0,'Tales from Cefn Mably',3484,1,1,'monthly_meetings2026-02-10');
INSERT INTO `CU3A_OpenMeetings`(`Description`, `DateAndTime`, `MaxNo`, `CurrentCount`, `Title`, `OfficerID`, `MeetingTypeCode`, `ActiveFlag`, uuid) VALUES ('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 member and speaker, Philip Tomas.','2026-03-10T14:00:00+00:00',95,0,'Grandad was a Rum Runner',3484,1,1,'monthly_meetings2026-03-10');
INSERT INTO `CU3A_OpenMeetings`(`Description`, `DateAndTime`, `MaxNo`, `CurrentCount`, `Title`, `OfficerID`, `MeetingTypeCode`, `ActiveFlag`, uuid) VALUES ('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 personal interest in his activities.
But all was not as it seemed..........".
Intriguing!','2026-04-14T14:00:00+00:00',95,0,'Hitler's favourite spy',3484,1,1,'monthly_meetings2026-04-14');
INSERT INTO `CU3A_OpenMeetings`(`Description`, `DateAndTime`, `MaxNo`, `CurrentCount`, `Title`, `OfficerID`, `MeetingTypeCode`, `ActiveFlag`, uuid) VALUES ('Stephen Lyon’s THE FIRST WELSH FILM STAR is the story of a young Llanelly boy who went to London as a teenager to become an actor. After a busy period working in touring theatre in the UK, he sailed for America with a company of Welsh actors. He stayed in America and became one of America’s most successful juvenile actors on stage and on film. In the 1940s he followed a calling to God and served as a Lay Missionary to the Paiute Indians in Nevada. He died at the Motion Picture Home and Country House in California in 1965.','2026-05-12T14:00:00+00:00',95,0,'The First Welsh Film Star',3484,1,1,'monthly_meetings2026-05-12');
INSERT INTO `CU3A_OpenMeetings`(`Description`, `DateAndTime`, `MaxNo`, `CurrentCount`, `Title`, `OfficerID`, `MeetingTypeCode`, `ActiveFlag`, uuid) VALUES ('There was this young guy from Treforest. Dark-haired fella who loved Elvis. Great singer. Had the moves, too. His name was Tom – Tommy Pitman. Oh yes – and there was another fella from Treforest who could sing, too – Tommy Woodward. Wonder whatever happened to him…
From early bands to Punk pioneers, Pontypridd has produced a wealth of talent – including two great singing Toms. WHEN PONTY ROCKED! shines a spotlight on Pontypridd’s Rock ‘n’ Roll past. In a tribute to her hometown. Author and journalist Steph McNicholas tells the stories of musicians and music fans… Meet the beat groups who broke out before The Beatles became famous.','2026-06-09T14:00:00+00:00',95,0,'When Ponty Rocked!',3484,1,1,'monthly_meetings2026-06-09');
INSERT INTO `CU3A_OpenMeetings`(`Description`, `DateAndTime`, `MaxNo`, `CurrentCount`, `Title`, `OfficerID`, `MeetingTypeCode`, `ActiveFlag`, uuid) VALUES ('His Honour Nicholas Cooke KC (retired) presents some interesting aspects of his life as a criminal barrister, leading to him being appointed as Senior Circuit Judge and the Recorder of Cardiff in 2007. Further details of Nicholas' presentation will follow.','2026-07-14T14:00:00+00:00',95,0,'My Life was Murder',3484,1,1,'monthly_meetings2026-07-14');
INSERT INTO `CU3A_OpenMeetings`(`Description`, `DateAndTime`, `MaxNo`, `CurrentCount`, `Title`, `OfficerID`, `MeetingTypeCode`, `ActiveFlag`, uuid) VALUES ('','2026-08-11T14:00:00+00:00',95,0,'TBA',3484,1,1,'monthly_meetings2026-08-11');
INSERT INTO `CU3A_OpenMeetings`(`Description`, `DateAndTime`, `MaxNo`, `CurrentCount`, `Title`, `OfficerID`, `MeetingTypeCode`, `ActiveFlag`, uuid) VALUES ('Professor Tony Curtis explains how an American teenager flew a Spitfire into combat before the USA had entered the war; who wrote, after flying from Llandow airfield, the most famous American poem of that war.','2026-09-08T14:00:00+00:00',95,0,'The Glamorgan Icarus',3484,1,1,'monthly_meetings2026-09-08');
INSERT INTO `CU3A_OpenMeetings`(`Description`, `DateAndTime`, `MaxNo`, `CurrentCount`, `Title`, `OfficerID`, `MeetingTypeCode`, `ActiveFlag`, uuid) VALUES ('Details will be announced nearer the date','2026-10-13T14:00:00+00:00',95,0,'Meet the Groups/Open Day',3484,1,1,'monthly_meetings2026-10-13');