The Friends Visit Exploring the Isle of Dogs Saturday 10 October 2015

The Friends coach trip to the Isle of Dogs The Friends of the University

Programme

hrs 8.20 Arrivals Please see below for directions and car Members and guests are asked to arrive either via the Shinfield Road parking information. entrance or the Pepper Lane entrance and use Car Park 7

8.30 Departure from the coach stop, Chancellors Way. Via a 37 seater Stewarts coach

10.30 Arrive at Museum of London Docklands Refreshment break 11.00- Christina Broom, pioneer London photographer: exhibition at There is a lift. Please 11.15 Museum of London Docklands say in advance whether you want to go Welcome and historical introduction on the Isle of Dogs from Martin on the guided tour of Kaufman, formerly Director of Development at the Museum of the Museum rather London, who is also an alumnus of the University of Reading than seeing the 11.15- Before we venture out into ‘the Island’ (as it is known to locals), Christina Broom 12.45 Members will have the opportunity to see a wonderful temporary exhibition. exhibition on a pioneer of photography, Christina Broom, regarded as the UK’s first female press photographer. She took her camera to the streets and captured thousands of images of people and events in London, revealing unique observations of the city at the start of the 20th century, including the Suffragettes.

NB As an alternative for those who did not attend last year’s tour of the Museum, there will be the opportunity instead to take a tour led by Martin Kaufman concentrating on the Isle of Dogs, or Members can walk around the Museum by themselves if they choose.

12.45- Lunch 13.45 Members are free to have lunch in ‘Rum and Sugar’ restaurant, in the café in the Museum, in one of the restaurants on West India Quay, take a picnic or spend time in the Museum shop.

13.45- Guided tour – The Isle of Dogs 16.00 Our tour will show the heart of the new Docklands, developed since the early 1980s by the London Docklands Development Corporation. Starting at the magnificent new Crossrail station with its Winter Garden and overlooking the new Billingsgate Market, we will travel on the driver-less Docklands Light Railway from West India Quay, crossing the old West India and Millwall Docks, and with a wonderful perspective on everything on ‘the Island’. At the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs is Island Gardens, where we will see the very best view in London of the Royal Naval Hospital in Greenwich, the view that was painted by Canaletto. In sight of the Cutty Sark, we will also see the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, a marvel of underwater engineering. We will return on the Docklands Light Railway, and will stop off and get on again on the route to see the Docks in more detail.

16.00 Tour ends back at the Museum of London Docklands, where there will be a refreshment break

16.30 Depart for Whiteknights (See reverse side of this programme) From the drop off point. There will be a

voluntary collection for the driver if felt appropriate 18.00 Approximate arrival at Whiteknights Dependent on traffic

Contact details If you have any questions or queries in advance of the event please contact Charlotte Ashley-Buck on [email protected] Transport and travel Detailed information about how to get to the University campus including a detailed map of the Whiteknights site can be found at: http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findmap.asp

Whiteknights campus – travelling by car The easiest and most direct route is via the M4 motorway. Leave the motorway at Junction 11. Please note that there have been recent changes to the road layout at the top of the slip road.  When you reach the roundabout at the top of the slip road follow the signs for the University of Reading.  Follow this road and at the first roundabout turn left on to the A327 (Shinfield Road).  Follow this road and go straight through two sets of traffic lights, passing a parade of shops and Leighton Park School.  Please park in Car park 7, Soil Science, in the reserved spaces and head for Chancellors Way where you will see a Stewarts coach parked. You will be returned to the same place.