HTML Website CreatorBOOKINGS CLOSED - Reminder for those already booked - Wednesday 18 February - Outing – BMW Mini Factory in Oxford – 9:00 departure from Husseywell Crescent – Cost £35 (coach and Factory tour) - Outing Organiser David Smith 07762 708549 – There will be a coffee break at Oxford services en route to the BMW Mini factory. The guided tour is booked for 12:20 and will last around 100 minutes. The visit is to one of the most modern car plants in the UK where thousands of parts (many delivered "just in time") come together to produce up to 800 MINIs per day. You will see the different elements of car production: from the so-called ‘Body-in-white’, the bodyshell, the different stages on production line, to the finished, personalised MINI being driven off for testing and delivery. After the tour, back on the coach one mile to Cowley town centre. There is a Weatherspoons pub there, but not really anywhere else that can take a coach full. Departure back to Hayes at 16.00, arrival at around 18:30.
Wednesday 25 February - Walk – Greenwich Park area – This is a leisurely walk around Greenwich and the Park with one hill (steep for a little while); total ascent of the whole walk circa 160 feet. No stiles - mostly all on hard surfaces. The walk starts and ends at Greenwich main line station – it starts at 10:45 and to lunch is circa 3 miles; lunch to finish circa 1 mile. Lunch will be at the Plume of Feathers pub, Park Vista, Greenwich, SE10 9LZ. If travelling by train from Hayes take the 09:43 to London Bridge and then take the 10:31 to Greenwich which arrives at 10:38. Alternatively, connections would also be available via East Croydon. Lunch at the pub (which is not cheap but is very pleasant) from 12:30 for anyone wishing to join the walkers. Walk Leader Bill Hudson, 07910 714851.
Wednesday 18 March - Outing – Kew Gardens and the London Museum of Water & Steam – 8:30 departure from Husseywell Crescent – Cost £35 (coach and entry to Kew and the Museum) - If you want to go on this Outing, please contact Michael McGuire, Outing Organiser, on 020 8466 9006, or sign up at the February or March meetings. – We will head straight to Kew Gardens which sits on a 330 acre site and was founded in 1759. Kew now has the largest and most diverse collection of plants in the world. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has a worldwide reputation for training, education and research. There are the usual facilities including a large restaurant. Later we will reboard the coach in order to travel just up the road to arrive at The London Museum of Water & Steam at 2.00pm. The museum is normally closed on a Wednesday but will be open especially for us in the afternoon. A Grade 1 listed building the museum sits on the site of the old Kew Bridge pumping station. Built in 1838 the building houses some of the world's rarest working steam engines; many of them still on their original sites. There is a cafe and gift shop on site. We will depart just after 4.30pm in order to arrive back in Hayes for early evening.
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