Tea Time Tales with refreshments are held at Priory House* on alternate Thursday afternoons between 2.30pm and 4.00pm, organised by Dunstable Town Guides. Below is the list of upcoming talks and a leaflet showing the topics and dates is also available from Priory House.
* Priory House is currently closed for essential repairs and Tea Time Tales are being held in Grove House at 76 High Street North, Dunstable, LU6 1NF
For How To Book our walks and talks please click here
2026 Tea Time Tales
8 January
Washington and the Dinosaurs
by Simon Robinson
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22 January
Meet Greyhound Len, the racing couch potato – from 40mph to 0 on retirement!
by Martin Attridge
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12 February
Mudlarking on the River Thames
by Neil Kieran
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26 February
Dunstable Sea Cadets, a ship without sails; a history of the old mill, and how it became the home of the Sea Cadets
by Lolly Blumenthal
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12 March
Queen Eleanor and her Crosses
by Kay Kempster
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26 March
Incredible Edible; Believe in the power of small actions
by Incredible Edible team members
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16 April
Lift the lid on the beehive and look at life in the honey factory
by Mark Bolan
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30 April
Where Wings were built, the untold story of Dunstable’s Aircraft Factories
by David Underwood
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14 May
The World of Bridges
by David Deller
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4 June
Lady Margaret Douglas, Who Do You Think You Are?
by Pam Greener
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18 June
Amateurs at the Archive
by Carol Hardy
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2 July
Get me out of here! Travel from, through or to Dunstable was once difficult, unpleasant and often dangerous
by Tony Woodhouse
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16 July
The Women of Bletchley Park
by Bryony Norburn
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10 September
Bedford from Victoria to WW2
by Bob Ricketts
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24 September
Dunstable’s Augustinian Priory 1120 to 1540
by Hugh Garrod
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8 October
From Tigers to the Taj Mahal: Adventures in India
by Wilf Powell
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22 October
Red Cloud’s War: How the West was Lost
by Andy Gibbs
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5 November
What did the parrot say? The first world currency
by Trevor Owens
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19 November
The Skylon at the 1951 Festival of Britain
by Stephen Williams
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3 December
The Fishing Fleet, Husband Hunting in the Raj
by Jean Yates
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17 December
‘Oh yes it is, oh no it isn’t’ a History of the Pantomime
by Ann Ledger
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