Our photo comp social was held on Friday 22 March 2024 at Morley College, Waterloo Centre and was well attended by 26 members. After the viewing we served refreshments, a selection of savoury items and delicious home-baked cakes by Daphne, washed down with wine/juice or tea/coffee. Fifteen members submitted a Read more…
This walk will now start from Hassocks and end in Falmer. We will go via Clayton Church, steeply up onto the Downs past the Jack and Jill Windmills, We then walk on the South Downs Way to Ditchling Beacon where we will stop for a quick alfresco lunch and possible Read more…
Saturday March 16th was mostly a bright Spring day, but our valiant walk leaders had found the Essex mud a horrible and potentially dangerous experience. Instead 19 members took advantage of the fact that our inner City offers numerous green spaces for us to explore and appreciate. Elephant Park is Read more…
Change of walk. Mike C writes: Unfortunately my planned walk from Horsham is too muddy by half. Instead I’ll lead whoever from Fulwell to Mortlake. We’ll pass through Bushey Park, Hampton Court Park, along the river to Kingston and then through Richmond Park to Mortlake. Total length 10 miles. It’s Read more…
Our photo comp social takes place on Friday, 22 March at the Waterloo Campus in room C20, located in the back wing of the college. Arrival time 3.30pm with viewing to start at around 3.45pm. Light refreshments will be served next door (room C21) after we’ve viewed all the images and announced the final winner Read more…
9 March. This was a slightly truncated version of my planned walk (probably about seven miles as it turned out). The mud, which is sabotaging all our walks this year, made us abandon the planned lunch stop in Underrriver. The final steep descent was impossible when I did the recce Read more…
Another walk change due to unpassable Essex mud. We will meet instead outside the entrance to the Elephant and Castle Northern Line station at 10.30 for a walk of up to 9 miles with drop off points all along the way. There will be regular options for refreshments or picnics. Read more…
2 March. A nine mile walk, with an optional extension back to Berkhampsted along the Grand Union canal. A relatively short train ride. Some history to start the walk at Berkhampsted castle. A couple of climbs on the edge of the Chiltern hills. Otherwise fairly flat walking in the forests Read more…
The original version of this walk is another victim of the mud. The steep hill down to the proposed lunch stop was almost impossible when we did the recce. So I am proposing to do a slightly shorter version, with lunch at Godden Green, but some of the walk will Read more…
It is said that the number ‘10’ represents fortune and is a symbol of completion, so I was pleased when on Saturday 17 February ten of us gathered at Box Hill & Westhumble station on a rather overcast and misty morning, but without the drizzle we had encountered earlier in Read more…