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Wembley & District Centre Meetings held on the third Thursday of the month at Sudbury Neighbourhood Centre, 809 Harrow Road, Wembley, HA0 2LP NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2018 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next Newsletter 19th April 2018 154 WINTER 2 Membership/Newsletter/Theatre 8 2017 Holiday Summary/ 16-19 Various Forms Group 2018 Holiday to Lincoln 3 Walking Group (NEW) 9/10 Lectures for 2018 20 Events at a Glance 4-6 Summer Outings 11 Summer Outing form 21-24 AGM Papers 6 Treasurer’s Report/Oak Leaf Club 12 Summer Outing Info 7 Last Winter Outing 13-15 Holiday Information Dear Friends Welcome to our January 2018 newsletter. I trust you all had a very enjoyable Christmas and new year, and are now finishing off the last remaining mince pies and pieces of Christmas cake! 2017 was a busy and successful year at our NT group, raising some £3,500 for worthy causes at Montecute and Nuffield NT properties. However, I hope that the underlying motivation is that you continue to enjoy meeting up with friends at our monthly talks at Sudbury, and look forward together to our programme of trips and visits. The new year is a perfect time to invite friends and neighbours along to our group. Since the last newsletter, we have invited speakers on a diverse range of subjects – Patrick Bronte, father of the Bronte sisters, shoplifting, and latterly the development of Earls Court, Aristocracy to Aussies. We were certainly intrigued by the revelations about shoplifters and the vigilance needed by security in departmental stores and I certainly had not known of the origins of the Earls Court area with its connections to famous families/houses including Zetland (Shetland), Northumberland, Warwick and Percy. Our 2017 holiday was a great success and we have since shown our appreciation to June Dray for the organisation of this and many previous trips. Dawlish Warren proved to be a very good base to make trips into the South Devon area, and the hotel was extremely comfortable. We shared mealtimes with a group of ballroom dancers, and their evenings included fancy dress, so there were plenty of conversation topics! Our daily excursions included visits to stately homes. Cathedrals and castles, trips on mainline trains and steam trains, and a river cruise. A good time was had by all. Our thanks are now due to Val Hirth in taking on the organising role for this year’s destination of Lincolnshire. Book the week 16 – 21 September now! The AGM in March will be an opportunity to revisit some of last year’s venues, as we shall be showing more of your photographs taken on the trips. Please send Val Hirth any photographic contributions towards the presentation. We hope you will enjoy the evening as much as last year. With every good wish for a happy and healthy 2018. Kind regards - Phil Rankmore OUR THANKS TO DANIELS ESTATE AGENTS WHO KINDLY PRINT OUR NEWSLETTERS FREE OF CHARGE 1 | P a g e MEMBERSHIP 2018 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL The annual subscription of £12 each is due for renewal on 1st January 2018. The renewal form is included with this newsletter. If you wish your membership ticket posted to you please let me have a stamped addressed envelope. The cut-off date for renewing membership is the end of March 2018 Sad news I’m afraid. Three of our long-time members have recently passed away. Barbara Martin who was our treasurer for many years, Beryl Maizels who had been unwell for some time and Joan Margetts who suffered a stroke and passed away just a few days before Christmas. National Trust Senior Membership Rates You may not know that if you are over 60 and have been a National Trust member for at least five years within the last ten years, you can convert to Senior Membership which means a 25% discount on adult prices. To find out more, apply directly to the Supporter Services Centre (tel: 0344 800 1895) or look online www.nationaltrust.org.uk/news/senior-membership-prices. Data Protection Act The contact details of members are held in a computer database for administration purposes only and will not be passed to any third party. NEWSLETTERS Let me know if you have anything you would like to contribute to our newsletters that may be of interest to our members. The publication dates are the Thursday of our meetings in January, April, July and October. You will have to let me have any articles at least two weeks before the date of the meetings in each of the months stated. If you do not attend our monthly meetings to collect your newsletters we would be obliged if you could send 3 stamped addressed envelopes or just the stamps which will help cut our postage costs. (It would normally be 4 stamps for the year but as this is the first newsletter for 2018 you need only send 3 stamps). Don’t forget to let me know if you change your email address or are now on the internet so your newsletter can be emailed to you. Jean Peacock – Newsletter Editor & Distributor. THEATRE GROUP I have reserved 40 seats for 42nd Street at £29.50 each on Wednesday 21st March booking form at end of this newsletter. Please send a SAE if you are not able to pick your tickets up at a meeting, your payment MUST be with me by Monday 29th January. • My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do! • The sad part about getting old is you stay young on the inside but nobody can tell anymore! • Wife: “I have blisters on my hands from the broom.” Husband: “next time take the car, silly” 2 | P a g e NEW – FREE – WALKING GROUP One of our members, Audrey Stafford, has offered to to run a walking group. There is no booking form – just turn up on time! Audrey’s mobile – 07933 246 483. WEST INDIA DOCK WALK- 90 minutes. WEDNESDAY 21st FEBRUARY 2018 Meet at Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Time: 11:00 am South Quay Ticket Barrier We will be walking along Dockside Walkway passing Jack Dash House. Crossing the Blue Bridge where there are good views of the O2. Entering a quiet lane of colourful Dockers cottages and The Gun Pub which served sailors, gunsmiths and foundry workers. Further up this lane we pass Nelson’s house, from where Nelson was rumoured to have an underground passage to The Gun Pub where Lady Hamilton had a room. Crossing the road, passing Bridge House, home of the Superintendent of the West India Dock Company we walk through an opening in the original dock wall and follow the path around Poplar Dock which is home for many canal boats. We then continue on to Blackwell Basin and arrive at Canary Wharf. There are excellent views and smells of Billingsgate Fish Market as we come to West India Dock. Colourful flower beds, fountains and sculptures can be seen as we make our way over the Floating Bridge to view impressive Georgian Warehouses. Passing the Dockmasters House, we are just a short walk from DLR Westferry. Return to the Georgian Warehouses where you will find The Dockland Museum, free entrance, and The Ledger Building, which is a Wetherspoons for lunch. ROTHERHITHE WALK - 90 minutes. WEDNESDAY 14th MARCH 2018 Meet at Bermondsey Ticket Barrier - Jubilee Line Time: 11:00 Find out about Henry Wilson and his shipwreck off Ulong Island. What would happen if the Thames Barrier hadn’t been built? Stand in the place where Turner painted the Temeraire and see where King Edward III had his Hunting Lodge. This is an interesting walk along the Thames path to Rotherhithe, ending at the Brunel Tunnel Museum, entrance fee £4:00. Lunch can be had at The Mayflower or The Angel, both historical pubs. Journey home – either a 20-minute walk back to Bermondsey or from Rotherhithe Station overgound, change at Shadwell onto the DLR then alight at Bank (central line) for your homeward journey. SOUTHWARK WALK – 90 minutes. WEDNESDAY 18th APRIL 2018 Meet at London Bridge Station Tooley Street Entrance Time: 11:00 We head across the road into Borough Market, passing Drake’s Golden Hind, Winchester Palace and the Globe Theatre. Entering into an area of bear batting and prostitution we find Shakespeare’s original Globe Playhouse. Passing an area that once was the biggest brewery in the world, producing 235,000 barrels of beer a year, we come across Octavia Hill’s affordable houses, Crossbones where 15,000 prostitutes are buried and Marshalsea Prison Wall. Find out the reason why St George the Martyr steeple clock has three white and one black face. Walk back up Borough High Street where there are many historic pubs, also the Old Operating Theatre Museum, entrance £6:50 but half price for National Trust members. It is well worth a visit but there are a lot of stairs! Returning home from London Bridge Station. 3 | P a g e 2018 SUMMER OUTINGS Below are the Summer Outings for this year. Hopefully you can find something you like. Please remember you can bring family and friends along with you. th HENLEY AND NT NUFFIELD PLACE SATURDAY 14 APRIL 2018 Price National Trust Members - £21.00 Non-NT Members - £31.00 We start our visit in Henley-on-Thames. Henley’s historic heart sits just a few strides from the River Thames. The main street has many Georgian frontages covering older buildings and among the 300 buildings within the town designated ‘of special architectural or historical interest’ are St Mary’s Church, the Town Hall, Market Place and the 18th Century stone bridge.