| 2025 | ||
| DATE | SUBJECT | PRESENTER |
| January 23rd | The architecture of Zaha Hadid | Alan Sayers |
| February 27th | Two Leicestershire Buildings | Colin Gough |
| March 27th | A Type of building or buildings - chosen by group members - part 1 | Group Members |
| April 24th | A Type of building or buildings - chosen by group members - part 2 | Group Members |
| May 22nd | A Visit to Cirencester with Alec Clifton-Taylor (DVD) Plus some modern photos. | Peter Carter |
| June 26th | No meeting | |
| July 24th | No meeting | |
| August 21st | No meeting | |
| September 25th | Inigo Jones | Peter Carter |
| October 23rd | Edlingham | Peter Carter |
| November 27th | Review of the year and plans for 2026 | |
| December 18th | No meeting |
| 2024 | ||
| DATE | SUBJECT | PRESENTER |
| January | No meeting | |
| 22nd February | A Favourite building - part 1 - Chosen and described by Group members | |
| 28th March | A Favourite building - part 2 | |
| 25th April | The Byker Development - Cancelled - to be rearranged | Pat Ashton |
| 23rd May | Trip to Arbeia | With Archaeology Group |
| 27th June | Visit to Melrose and Traquair House | |
| July | No meeting | |
| August | No meeting | |
| 26th September | The Byker Development | Pat Ashton |
| 24th October | Social Housing | David Willoughby |
| 28th November | Review of the year and plans for 2025 | |
| December |
| 2023 | SUBJECT | Presenter |
| Thursday 26th January | Architect W S Hicks in Northumberland | Colin Gough |
| Thursday 23rd February | Tewkesbury with Alec Clifton Taylor (DVD) | Peter Carter |
| Thursday 23rd March | The first building that interested me | Group Members |
| Thursday 27th April | The English Country House, A look at Mark Girouard’s classic book on Life in the English Country House. | Peter Carter |
| Thursday 25th May | Outing to Kirkwhelpington and Hartburn. An afternoon trip to look at two churches. Hartburn is particularly noted for the 18th century tombstones—which featured strongly in Mark Hatton’s talk to the U3A Monthly Meeting last November. | |
| Thursday 22nd June | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Architecture - Quirky buildings and Brutalist architecture. | Alan and Maureen Sayers |
| July | NO MEETING or outing | |
| August | NO MEETING or outing | |
| Thursday 28th September | Outing or meeting to be arranged | |
| October | NO MEETING or outing | |
| Thursday 23rd November | Review of the year and plans for 2024 | Peter Carter |
| December | No meeting |
| 2022 | ||
| DATE | SUBJECT | PRESENTER |
| 27th January | Medieval buildings of Alsace (France/a bit of Germany). Also 20th/21st century buildings which follow on from our zoom meetings last year. | Peter Carter |
| 24th February | Medieval buildings of Burgundy | Peter Carter |
| 24th March | Short presentations from 6 group members describing ‘a Medieval Building of their choice' | Group members |
| April | No meeting | |
| 26th May | Aberdeen and Granite, aided by John Betjeman (in 1947) and with some photos taken this year. | Peter Carter |
| 23rd June | OUTING by coach – Corbridge and Chipchase Castle. Click on this link to see details: Corbridge and Chipchase - 23/06/22 | |
| July | No meeting | |
| August | No meeting | |
| 22nd September | Exploring the town of Beverley in Yorkshire incl a DVD featuring Alec Clifton-Taylor - ref his series on English Towns. | Peter Carter |
| 4th October, Tuesday | Joint Outing to Durham, with the History Group | |
| October | No meeting | |
| 24th November | Annual review of the year and planning for next year. As our last meeting of this kind was in 2019, we will be reviewing 3 years | Peter Carter |
| December | No meeting |
| 2021 | ||
| DATE | SUBJECT | PRESENTER |
| 14th January | Some modern buildings, part 1 | Peter Carter |
| 28th January | The Pompidou Centre in Paris and its place in modern French architecture via ZOOM | George Ellames |
| 11th February | Some modern buildings, part 2 via ZOOM | Peter Carter |
| 25th February | T Dan Smith & the Brasilia of the North – 1970s Newcastle (Andy) via ZOOM | Andy Griffiin |
| 11th March | The Architect I M Pei via ZOOM | Maureen Sayers |
| 25th March | The Bauhaus movement via ZOOM | Barbara Wood |
| 8th April | ‘Pevsner’s Buildings of England’, the updated new volume on County Durham including places visited by Alnwick u3a via ZOOM | Peter Carter |
| 22nd April | The Aesthetics and Design of Bridges via ZOOM | Alan Sayers |
| 13th May | ECO buildings worldwide via ZOOM | Maureen Sayers |
| 27th May | No meeting | |
| 10th June | Sir Edwin Lutyens via ZOOM | Peter Carter |
| 24th June | Bridges 2 via ZOOM | Alan Sayers |
| 8th July | No meeting | |
| 22nd July | Garden ornaments and their contribution to the gardens of country houses via ZOOM | Peter Carter |
| 12th August | No meeting | |
| 26th August | Discussion about future group activities & the buildings of Bletchley Park via ZOOM | Peter Carter |
| 23rd September | No meeting | |
| MEETINGS TO RETURN TO MONTHLY AT ST MICHAELS | ||
| 28th October | An Architectural Walk around Alnwick, possible lunch afterwards? | Peter Carter |
| 25th November | The Buildings of Orkney | Peter Carter |
| 23rd December | No meeting |
| 2020 | ||
| DATE | SUBJECT | PRESENTER |
| January | No meeting | |
| Thursday 27th February | Meeting: Victorian architects and architecture | Peter Carter |
| Thursday 26th March | CANCELLED DUE TO COVID | |
| Thursday 23rd April | CANCELLED DUE TO COVID | |
| FURTHER MEETINGS BY ZOOM – generally at 2pm every 2nd & 4th Thursday | ||
| 28th May | Preliminary Presentation by Peter Carter | Peter Carter |
| 11th June | Wightwick Manor, a magnificent Arts and Crafts building of 1887 and 1893 | Colin Gough |
| 25th June | Bonnington Square: The Inconveniences of Living in a Victorian Tenement in the 1950s | George Ellames |
| 9th July | Presentations on: Wreay Church, Cumbria and Freeland Church, Oxfordshire. | Peter Carter |
| 23rd July | Southwell Workhouse | Maureen Sayers |
| 6th August | Victorian Church Architecture – Gothic and Arts & Crafts | Carol Burnett |
| 20th August | Manchester Town Hall and Alfred Waterhouse | Pat Ashton |
| 3rd September | Newcastle Central Station | John Godfrey |
| 17th September | Classical Victorian Architecture | Peter Carter |
| 8th October | Review of our look at Victorian architecture | Peter Carter |
| 22nd October | Wentworth Woodhouse | Carol Burnett |
| 5th November | Snippets - Buildings of different dates | Peter Carter |
| 26th November | Churches | Colin Gough |
| 10th December | The North East Architect, John Dobson | Barbara Wood |
| 2019 | ||
| DATE | SUBJECT | PRESENTER |
| Thursday 24th January | Romanesque architecture and Durham | Peter Carter |
| Thursday 28th February | A Building I want to visit | Group members |
| Thursday 28th March | Introduction to the year’s outings | Peter Carter |
| Thursday 25th April | Outing to Selkirk and Bowhill | |
| Thursday 23rd May | Outing to Ripon and Markenfield Hall | |
| Thursday 27th June | Outing to Seaton Delaval Hall and Tynemouth Castle and Priory | |
| July | No meeting | |
| August | No meeting | |
| Thursday 26th September | Outing cancelled | |
| Thursday 24th October | Outing to Rosslyn Chapel and nearby Scottish town | |
| Thursday 28th November | Review of the year and plans for 2020 | Peter Carter |
| December | No meeting |
| 2018 | ||
| DATE | SUBJECT | PRESENTER |
| Thursday 25th January | Architecture of the Isle of Man | Peter Carter |
| Thursday 22nd February | A Building I have visited | Group Members |
| Thursday 22nd March | Introduction to this year’s outings Includes DVD of Alec Clifton-Taylor on Richmond | Peter Carter |
| Thursday 26th April | Outing to Usher College | |
| Thursday 24th May | Outing to Richmond | |
| June | No meeting | |
| Tuesday 3rd July | Outing to Dalmeny House (Joint outing with History Group) | |
| August | Mo meeting | |
| Thursday 27th September | Trip to Durham | |
| October | No meeting | |
| Thursday 22nd November | Review of the year and plans for 2019 | Peter Carter |
| December | No meeting |
| 2017 | ||
| DATE | SUBJECT | PRESENTER |
| Thursday 26th January | Cartoon History of Architecture. Continuing our watching of this 8 DVD history of architecture | Peter Carter |
| February | No meeting | |
| Thursday 2nd March | A Building you visited last year | Group members |
| Thursday 30th March | A Local Building(s). The proposal is that we meet up at some local historic site and investigate it together | Peter Carter |
| April | No meeting | |
| Thursday 25th May | Outing to Newhailes (near Musselburgh, Lothian) | |
| Thursday 22nd June | Outing to Rokeby Park (near Barnard Castle) | |
| July | No meeting | |
| August | No meeting | |
| Thursday 28th September | Outing to Middlesborough & Jarrow. Transporter Bridge and Jarrow Hall Anglo-Saxon farm, village and Bede Museum | |
| October | No meeting | |
| Thursday 23rd November | Review of the year and plans for 2018 | Peter Carter |
| December | No meeting |