AI Website GeneratorWednesday 15 April - Outing –Shepherd Neame Brewery in Faversham & Whitstable – 8.30am
departure from Husseywell Crescent - Cost £40 (includes coach and Brewery Tour with Tutored Tasting). To book this Outing contact Tony Archer on 0788 668 0546, or sign up at the March or April meetings. - The brewery is a working industrial site so, practical footwear that covers the whole foot is required - any visitors wearing sandals, flip flops, Crocs, clogs, Birkenstock style shoes, any other open-toed shoes or high heels will not be permitted to join the tour. The brewery offer virtual tours if anyone in the group is unable to walk round. The tour itself lasts approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes and includes several of the brewery’s historic buildings, which have steep staircases and uneven surfaces. They therefore advise that the tour may be difficult for infirm visitors and is not suitable for wheelchair users. Tea and coffee may be provided at an additional £1.50 per person or refreshments can be purchased at the bar. After the brewery visit we travel to Whitstable, arriving at about 12.30 for lunch and sight-seeing. The coach is expected to return to Husseywell Crescent at around 6.20pm.
Wednesday 29 April - Walk – Ash, Sevenoaks area -
Meet at the Rosary Church car park; depart at 9.30am for a walk in the Ash area from the Woodlands Garden Centre (TN15 7EG). Proceed down the M20 to junction 2 and then back up the A20 for about a mile before turning off right onto a lane leading to the Woodlands Garden Centre. If you would like to join the group at the Garden centre, please get there by
10.15am. At the Centre is the Kent Firefighting Museum and a nice restaurant. After a quick look around the museum we could have a 3.5 mile walk on country lanes and footpaths returning to the restaurant for lunch.
Walk leader: Brian Lightoller 07751 823450..
Wednesday 20 May - Outing – Nene Valley Railway and Peterborough – 8.15am departure from Husseywell Crescent – Cost £35.00 – (Coach plus whole Day Pass on the Railway) – To book this Outing contact Paul Shann on 07545 957 954 or at paul.shann1@outlook.com or sign up at the April or May meetings. Immediately after booking, payment must be made so that your Railway Day Pass can be purchased at a discounted rate.
We will be travelling north on the M25, the M11 and then on the A1 to Wansford Railway Station. We will make a comfort stop at a service area on route.
The Wansford Station building houses the booking office, gift shop, toilet, a café and there are also disabled person’s facilities in the building. After receiving your train ticket you will be able to decide yourself what to do and where to go on the Railway. You can travel on the train as many times as you like to visit Yarwell Station, Overton Station, Orton Mere Station and Peterborough, NVR Station.
Peterborough, as an historic city with its famous Cathedral and the Wetherspoon’s Drapers Arms public house, is one of the top UK destinations for Railway artefacts and structures. The Cathedral with its stunning architecture and medieval artwork is, allegedly, one of the finest Norman cathedrals in Europe. It is the burial place of two Tudor queens, Katharine of Aragon and Mary, Queen of Scots. In Cathedral Square, and on the rooftops of the Queensgate Shopping Centre, the Leeds Building Society building and the Yorkshire Building Society building, there are three life-sized lead body cases sculptured by Antony Gormley. Also, near the shopping centre there is an attractive stand-alone ‘Guildhall’ built around 1670 to celebrate the restoration of Charles II.
In the afternoon it will be important to return to Wansford Station in good time if you want to attend some of the guided tours of the site such as the viewing gallery, the museum and an original signal box.
We will be leaving Wansford Station at 4.30pm sharp.
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