Programme
Wednesday Meetings, Weekends Away & Other Events
September 2003
Wednesday 3rd September
Ireland Slide Show
Jim will be showing slides from our spectacular trip to Donegal and Antrim. If you were not with us, come and see what you were missing. If you were one of the Ireland crew, come along to reminisce and share your own pictures with the group.
(For a preview, see some pictures online)
Sunday 7th September
The Essex Castle Cycle Ride
James
A sponsored cycle ride in aid of CLIC (Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood). Entry fee £12 or £11 if we get a team of 5. Choice of 15, 50 or 70 mile routes start and finish at Kings Head Meadow Catchpool Road (Off Cowdaray Ave.) in Colchester. James intends to do the 50 miles route; please contact him at least a week before if you're interested.
Wednesday 10th September
Committee Meeting
Everyone welcome to plan Wednesday meetings for November, and trips for next year.
Friday 12th September
Chappel Beer Festival
James K
Visit the 17th Chappel Beer Festival at the East Anglian Railway Museum. Over 300 different real ales, live entertainment, hot and cold food available, including hog roast.
Meet at Chelmsford railway station for the 19:17 train to Chappel and Wakes Colne (change at Marks Tey).
Saturday 13th September
Saffron Walden Hostel Open Day
As part of the National Heritage Open days scheme, the hostel will be open all day. The hostel, the oldest inhabited building in Saffron Walden, is a former maltings with parts dating from 1402, and well worth looking around. There'll also be a chance to find out more about the plans to improve the hostel. Please feel free to come along, either for a tour of the premises, or bring a trowel and some gloves and join us in the garden for a little routine maintenance. We'll be there from about 11am until 4pm..
Sunday 14th September
Housewarming Barbecue
Come and help warm Marion's new house in Wickford, from 2pm.
Marion will provide food; please bring your own drinks. Let Marion know if you'd like to come, and she can give you directions if needed. Note there is ample car parking almost opposite in a parade of shops, there is NO parking outside the house.
Wednesday 17th September
Pub Night: Compasses Littley Green
James
Come and spend an evening at the charming Compasses Inn in Littley Green (from about 8.30).
Leave Chelmsford on A130 towards Gt.Dunmow; turn right onto B1417 (towards Felsted) for ¾mile; turn right into lane opposite Hartford End Brewery; after another ¾ mile left at T junction, pub is on left. Grid ref TL 699173. See map
19th to 21st September
Canterbury Hostel Weekend
A splendid Victorian villa, less than a mile from the city centre. Close to the Kent Downs, the Hostel is within easy reach of the North Downs Way and Pilgrim's Way footpaths - while the city itself has a cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, various museums, guided tours and theatres.
£30 deposit will book your bed. Total cost about £40.
Wednesday 24th September
St. Kilda Slide Show
In June, Trudi was part of a National Trust working party on St Kilda, the remotest part of the British Isles, 41 miles west of Benbecula in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.
James Fisher, a naturalist, wrote in 1947: "Whatever he studies, the future observer of St Kilda will be haunted the rest of his life by the place, and tantalised by the impossibility of describing it, to those who have not seen it." Tonight, Trudi will attempt the impossible.
Note: Unless otherwise stated, Wednesday events start at 8.30pm at the YMCA in Victoria Road, Chelmsford
Please send any comments on these pages to Dave Plummer