On Saturday 28 March we held our AGM at St George’s Campden Hill with 34 attendees
Following the meeting and a plentiful buffet lunch, 16 walkers set off to amble through the Royal Parks. The sky was a mixture of brilliant blue and a few grey clouds. Luckily we didn’t have a repeat of lasts year’s deluge. We passed through beautiful flower beds along the side of the Albert Memorial, crowds of tourists taking in the afternoon sunshine and heard the shouts of the demonstrators on what looked to be a peaceful march through the Hyde Park area.
A few walkers dropped out at Green Park. In St James Park we spotted one pelican and a heron. Pam went on a hunt for a Metropolitan water trough around the Whitehall area – sadly no sign of it as the seating area for Trooping the Colour blocked any view. The rest of us finished our walk at Westminster Tube station.
16 hikers turned up at Rickmansworth on a glorious sunny day. We started by making our way to the Aquadrome, part of the Colne valley regional park. The wildfowl were making the most of the spring weather. On the far side we followed the grand union canal and then made our way to Moor Park.
Moor Park still has a magnificent house with gardens designed by Capability Brown and was once used to house Katherine of Aragon after Henry VIII divorced her. It is now a Golf Course with the footpath going right through the middle with warnings of balls from all quarters. Fortunately we survived the ordeal with no damage.
The weather forecast had been for a bright sunny day so I had my fingers crossed. It would be a welcome change after the repeated days of grey skies and rain we had been experiencing for many weeks. Sure enough that’s how the day started and it stayed that way making the walk even more special. Seventeen of us assembled outside Amersham station. There was a short delay whilst members used the nearest public toilets because the station toilets were closed and after the usual briefing we set off.
19 polyramblers set off from Henley station on a cloudy morning anticipating a fairly drizzly day. Due to very soggy conditions along the river experienced on the walkover the leader had opted for a high level route instead. We set off through the town and then went up via the Oxfordshire Way via Henley Park and through the village of Fawley until we entered the Great Wood. The views were lovely on the way up and we were delighted to see some newborn lambs.
The sunshine attracted 16 Poly Ramblers on this walk in historic Bexley village and along the Cray river to Sidcup. Nobody in the group knew what their home town or village were worth. But I could tell them that Bexley, in the Doomsday Survey of 1086, had 41 inhabitants, with 100 pigs and 10 ploughs, and was valued the equivalent of £20.
