MARCH - MAY 1970

 

ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC RAMBLERS' CLUB

 

                    COMMITTEE 1969/70              

 

Hon.Secretary   - Daphne Fisk                                                                         

 

Hon. Treasurer  - Fred McAndrew 

 

Social sub-committee liaison  - Jean Gibson   

Magazine Liaison                    - Denis O'Carroll 

Publicity                                   - Patricia Marsden 

Compiler of Ramble Lists        - John Lawrence

 Richard Sumner

 Maureen Walsh       

Social Sub-Committee 1969/70

Secretary:  - Maurice O'Brien                           Treasurer:  - Dennis Spiller      Patricia Hobbs, Patricia Dooley,  Jenny Foord, Barbara Lawless,. Christine Murray, Madeleine Webster, Christopher Jones, Peter de Smith.

 

MAGAZINE

 

Adriane Kelly has unfortunately resigned as·Magazine Editor. Thank you, Adrian, for all your hard work over the years. A magazine is not included with this list.

 

*W*E*L*C*O*M*E

 

Cecilia Bonner, Pamela Groves, Roger Chartier, Joseph O'Connor

who have.all completed their 3 rambles. We hope we shall see them out rambling frequently.

 

SUBSCRIPTIONS

 

Iy you have not yet paid your annual subscription for 1969/70 please send 7/6d. to Fred McAndrew as soon as possible. No further lists will be sent to members who have not paid.

 

CLUB MAP LIBRARY

 

'!'he Club. has recently purchased some current maps of the Home Counties and these will be kept at Bunhill Row. It you wish to borrow any of these maps, please contact Richard Sumner.

 

TUESDAY, 10th MARCH - MASS AT ST. JOSEPH's - 7 p.rn.

Father Higgs will offer Mass for the deceased relatives of

the following membersthe following :- Pat Shanahan's Father, Patricia Hobbs' mother, Gen Maplesden's Father.

 

DAY OF RECOLLECTION

 

When?                Sunday, 15th March commencing at 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.

Where?               Convent of La Retraite Atkins Road, S.W.4. 

Cost?                  13/- payable on the day (including. lunch & tea)

Given by?            Father Andrew McMahon, O.F.M. Father VicMahon's fame has already been spread by those members who have heard him on the two occasions on which he visited Bunhill Row.

Please give your name to Daphne as soon as possible but at the latest by Tuesday, 10th March.

 

How to get to La Retraite  Nearest Tube Station CLAPHAM SOUTH (Northern Line) about 20/30 minutes journey from Bank or Charing Cross. Leaving  the station exit, cross the main road and turn right (Balham Hill) take 5th turning on left DINSMORE ROAD. Walk down Dinsmore Road to cavendiish Road and ATKINS ROAD is almost opposite. The entrance to the

convent is on the right hand side.

 

40th ANNIVERSARY DINNER & DANCE

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You will never have another opportunity of celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the Club. Come to the Celebratiun

Dinner & Dance.

DATE             SATURDAY, 2nd MAY                                                            

PLACE           Schmidts Restaurant, Charlotte Street, W.1. 

TIME              6.30 p.m. for 7 p.m.                                       

COST             28/6d. per ·ticket.. The lucky rnarried members receive a

                       special reduction of 2 tickets for £2.10s.

Ladies - Don't worry if you don't have a mink to wear - dress is optional Tickets obtainable from all Cornmittee members or write with s. a.e. and money to Daphne.

 

RAMBLE LIST

 

Please meet at Station Booking Office. Strong boots or shoes sre 'essential.

 

1st MARCH

Meet Liverpool Street at 10.45 for 11.04 to BRENTWOOD

Fare      8/- C.0.P.                                   Distance 12 miles        

Lunch   Green. Man, Haverstook Side   Tea  Brentwood Transport Cafe

Leader  Paul Button   bring .your own cakes and sandwiches. Paul

Duty      Dennis O'Carroll            will supply drinks at tea time.

 

8th MARCH

Meet Victoria 10. 55 a.m. for 11.14 to OTFORD (returning from Shoreham

or Elynsford)

Fare            9/~ C.O.P.                           Distance 13 miles

Lunch         Kemsing                              Tea          The Cavaliers, Shoreham   Leader.       Maurice O'Brien                   Duty       Jean Gibson 

 

15th MARCH -  DAY OF RECOLLECTION - See Above

 

22nd MARCH

Meet Charing Cross at 10 25 for 10.4O to SEVENOAKS

Fare         8/- C.O.P.(plus bus faree from Westerham)  Distance 9 miles

Lunch       Wheatsheaf Ide Hill                 Tea                Westerham

Leaders Barbara Fry & Daphne Fisk       Duty               Patricia Marsden

 

EASTER WEEKEND - SANDOWN - 26th-30th MAR.CH - SEE ABOVE

 

EASTER MONDAY, 30th MARCH

Meet Victoria at 10.30 for 10.45 to SALFORDS

Fare            9/- C.O.P.                                      Distance 9 miles

Lunch         Prince of Wales, Outward             Tea  Gala Restaurant, Salfords

Leader        Philip Evans

 

5th APRIL

Meet  Liverpool Street (Tube) at 10.35 for 10.47 to EPPING (book single ticket). Return from Cheshunt.

Fare         4/6 out, 4/1 back                             Distance  13 miles

Lunh        Cock & Magpie, Epping Green      Tea Abbey Restaurant, Waltham

                                                                                                             Abbey

Leader     Arthur Holland                                Duty               Daphne Fisk        There will be time before tea to visit Waltham Abbey.

                                                       

11th APRIL                                                        

Meet Victoria (Kent Section) 11. 00 for 11.14 to KEMSING (Buy C.O. P. to

Borough Green)..

Fare           12/.· C.0.P.                                    Distance 13 miles

Lunch        Stone Street                                  Tea  Pilgrim Rrest Wrotharn Hill Leader      Oswald Barrett                               Duty Fred McAndrew

 

19th APRIL

Meet Marylebone at 10.10 for 10.35 to GERRARDS CROSS (Book single ticket). Return from Ruislip                              

Fare        4/11 single                                     Distance 9 miles

Lunch     F'isheries Inn', Hareford Lock        TeaThe Priory, Ruislip (4.15 p.m.

Leader   John Harris                                     Duty Jean Gibson

Optional evening ramble. Evening Mass at Ruisllip 6 p.m.

 

26h APRIL

Meet Victoria at 10.00 for 10.09 to EAST GRINSTEAD 

Fare            11/- C.O.P.                                Distance 15 miles

Lunch          West Hoathly.                           Tea  East Grinstead 

Leader         Dorothy Hickman                     Duty    Richard Sumner  

Mass at East Grinstead at 6.15 p.m.            Return to Victoria at 8.29 p.m.

 

3rd MAY

Meet Euston at 10.35 for 10. 50 to TRING

Fare         11/- C.0.P.                                     Distance  14 miles

Lunch       Bulbourne                                    Tea        Town Farm, Aldbury 

Leader:Mary Hickman                                   Duty      Maureen Walsh

 

10th MAY

Meet Waterloo 10.30 for 10.42 to WINDSOR & ETON RIVERSIDE 

Fare          10/- C.O.P.                                   Distance 10 miles

Lunch        Palmers Arms, Dorrey                 Tea    Eton or Windsor 

Leader Madeline Webster                             Duty  John Lawrence 

 

17th MAY

Meet Baker Street at 10.45 for 11.01 to WENPOVER (change Amersham.)

Fare 12/- C.0.P.                                             Distance 11 miles 

Lunch Butlers Green.                                    Tea        Friar  Tucks, Wendover 

Leader:- Bernie Doran.                                  Duty       Maureen Walsh 

 

SPRING BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND

 

BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY, 25th MAY

Meet Liverpool Street 9.30 :for 9.40 train to CHINGFORD (return from

Ponders End or Southbury)

Fare      3/- single each way                         Distance 13 miles

Lunch         High Beach                               Tea  Ponders End

Leaders John & Sheila White

 

SATURDAY. 30th MAY

Meet Peter Sturridge 1.30 p.m. Belsize ParkTube. Station. Depart 1.45 p.m. for walk across Hampstead Heath. Latecomers may join at 5:36 p.rn. for visit to Kenwood House: tea.and (weather permitting) concert - otherwise visit to The Playhouse Cinema.

 

SUNDAY 31st MAY

Meet Victoria 10.30 for 10.45 to BALCOMBE (Book C.O.P. to Haywards Heath)

Fare          13/- C.O.P. Distance 13 miles (inc. 2 after tea)

Lunch        Jolly Tanners, Staplefield            Tea     Wyndham Farmhouse;                                                                                       Wineham

Leader Maurice Hickman                              Duty              Richard Sumner

 

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FOUND A coat and scarf at the New Years' Party and a pair of brown gloves on a ramble to Abridge a few weeks ago.

 

S0CIAL EVENTS - MARCH TO MAY 1970

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The following social events have been arranged in date order for the website but in the original programme some of the later items were printed further up on the list.

 

Tuesdays .at 7,30 p.m. at St. Joseph's, Bunhill Row Please wtaar soft shoes for Square Dances.

 

3rd MARCH    - Mixed Orchestral Record Evening by Michael Easton.

 

10th MARCH  - MASS at 7.00 p.m. followed by a Square Dance

                         Caller Paul Maplesden

 

17th March     - Square Dance and Social Evening - Fred MAndrew

 

SATURDAY, 21st MARCH

Square Dance at Cecil Sharp House - M.eet 7. 30 p.m. prompt at Camden Town Tube Station or meet us at Cecil Sharp House.

 

TUESDAY, 24th MARCH .

A visit to St..Paul's Cathedral ,or a performanae of Bach's 'St Matthew's Passion'. Meet Daphne Fisk on the steps at 5.45 p.m. Tickets are not necessary and there is ·no charge for admission, but a  collection is taken during the evening.        ·          

 

FRIDAY, 3rd APRIL

Meet Maurice Hickman between 7.00  and 7.30. p.m. inside (remainder of item not readable on printed programme).

 

14th April        - Square· Dance - Caller Alan Rowe

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SATURDAY, 18th APRIL

Meet Dennis Spiller at Marshall Street Baths at 3. 0 p.rn. - for a swim.

 

21st April     - Mick Mckeown is organising another PHOTOGRAPHIC                                  COMPETITION and WINE AND CHEESE EVENING.                                      Admission 5/-. There will be two classes of entry (a) Black and                        white prints and (b) colour slides for which prizes will be                                  awarded.

                      Three prints and/or three colour slides per person. Mick would                        like to see more black and white prints please.

                      All entries to be handed to Norah Smeaton by Tuesday, 14th                          April.

 

SATURDAY, 25th APRIL

Are you a Pop Star or a Stockbroker? If so you may be able to afford one of the most expensive outings in the history of the Club (spendthrift peasants also welcome).

At last the long promised visit to the Tramway Museum, Crick, Derby­shire. Meet 0swaid Barrett at St. Pancras Main Line Station :for the 10.50 a.m. train to Nottingham (Cheap Day Return 44/--). Local bus fares about 6/-. Back in London by 9.22_pm. Rambling gear not required.

 

28th APRIL - A practice evening for ballroom dancing prior to the Annual Dinner & Dance on 2nd May given by Elsie Atkins.

 

SATURDAY. 2nd May - 40th ANNIVERSARY DINNER & DACE - see below.

 

5th MAY        - A beginners' evening for Square :Oancing, Calling and

                       instruction by Tony Chainey

 

SATURDAY. 9th May 

Children's Party organised by Kath Marney for the children of past and present Club members. Kath would be pleased to receive offers of help on the day and cakes, jellies etc.

 

For those with some energy left after the Children's Party and those who have had a less strenuous day - a visit to Cecil Sharp House for

square dancing. Meet Camden Town Tube Station at 7.30 p.m.

 

12th MAY         - Square Dance - to put into practice what we learnt last

                           week - Caller Tony Chainey .

 

SAURDAY. 16 MAY

Barbara Lawless has 20 tickets (price L1O/-) for "THE BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW" at the Victoria Palace. Please don't tread on her in the rush!

 

19th MAY           - A selection of operatic records and a talk by Mr J. Jacobs.

 

FRIDAYS IN MAY

Starting on 9th May at 6.0 p.m. tennis in Regents Park, Please contact Dennis Spiller for details.

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THANK YOU Tony Chainey for your excellent job of M.C. at the Christmas Party and also Carla Guise, Christopher Jones and Phllip Evans for your most enjoyable entertainment. Thank you also to the ladies (and gentlemen) who spent all day preparing food and also the ladies and one gentieman who brought cakes etc. and especially to Mrs. Cracknell (Sheila White's mother) who made the magnificent cake. It ·would be most helpful for future parties if more people, gentlemen as well as ladies, could bring cakes, mince pies etc. as it is unfair to expect the ladies of the main and social committees to make sufficient cakes themselves to feed 130 people at two sessions.

Thank you very much Fred .McAndrew for your splendid calling on the evening of the Christmas Ramble and to Maurice O'Brien for his work in organising the day.

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STRAWBERRY TIME - Would anybody interested in picking strawberries one Saturday in June please contact Meg Walsh. 

 

FRIDAY, 8th MAY  "CARMEN" by Bizet at Sadlers Wells, London Colliseum at 7. 30 p.m. Please send 8/- to Meg Walshby 3rd March if interested. If8/- seats have all been booked please state whether 14/- seats are too expensive.