The rest of 2015...

In May we made a trip to William Morris/Lord Nuffield's home. Unfortunately the start in Amersham was wet and our trip to the house was in  pretty heavy rain! May in the UK!! However, the weather did improve and we had a good day learning what an incredibly wealthy man Nuffield was (he earned around £100,000 a day in today's money!) and how much he did for others with his money- despite recent revelations about him. 

In September we made another rainy trip, this time to the Classic Car and Steam event at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton. Unfortunately the rain kept nearly everyone else away. We may visit again in 2016 when more than 25 of the 150-200 cars expected should be there. We had a good if damp time  and the trains were running.  

There isn't a very long line of track that they run steam on, but we all had a go on the trains that were running. There is a lot of static rolling stock to look around and an engine under restoration, which made a Spridget restoration look very simple and very very cheap!

 Eventually we managed to go somewhere in the sunshine!! In October on a lovely early Autumn morning we met at the pub in Redbourn for a trip to Jordans Mill. This is the original mill of the Jordan food company - you have probably eaten one of their breakfast cereals or their wholesome cereal bars. 

We had a really nice run out to the mill via Ireland (a tiny hamlet were we stopped to pose by the signpost). The mill has a very nice modern visitor centre and function venue that serves food and drink that we were all able to enjoy before looking around the gardens or the mill and heading off home.


 

Lets hope 2016 has more of these sunny events! Why not join us?