All Future Events

This page lists all the events that we will plan to undertake. You can select any particular type of event by using the “Categories” pull-down list immediately below.

Feb
26
Wed
Monthly Walk: Between Ripon and Studley Royal @ Ripon and Stuley Royal
Feb 26 all-day

Meet at Hell Wath playing fields car park (free HG4 2SE) at 9.45 for a 10.00 start.  We will go via Whitcliffe Wood and Lane – The deer park – Valley of the Seven Bridges – Studley Roger – and return.  Do not be surprised by muddy stretches!

Lunch will be at the Ripon Inn (Park St, Ripon, HG4 2BU) at 1.00pm

Mar
5
Wed
Meeting: “The Secret Service” @ Oatlands Club
Mar 5 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

No, not that Secret Service: Jim Brettell will be talking about the Probation Service, an important organisation whose function and activities are not understood as well as they might be

Mar
19
Wed
2025 Annual General Meeting @ Oatlands Club
Mar 19 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

The 2025 AGM – details will be publicised early in the New Year

Mar
26
Wed
Monthly Walk: Route TBC @ TBC
Mar 26 all-day
Apr
9
Wed
Meeting: “Shackleton’s Expedition to the Antarctic, 1914” @ Oatlands Club
Apr 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Joanne Aston will will talk about Ernest Shackleton’s aborted Antarctic crossing expedition of 1914, which is an inspiring story of leadership, courage and endurance in the face of adversity

Apr
23
Wed
Monthly Walk: Route TBC @ TBC
Apr 23 all-day
Meeting: “Robert Adam – Architect to the Nobility” @ Oatlands Club
Apr 23 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Tony Burkitt will talk to us about Robert Adam, the great Georgian architect and designer, whose work and inspiration is still with us today

May
7
Wed
Meeting: “Clifford’s Tower” @ Oatlands Club
May 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Karen Adams will return to talk about Clifford’s Tower in York – don’t say you’ve never climbed it!

May
21
Wed
Meeting: “The Bradford Canal” @ Oatlands Club
May 21 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Stuart Lines will talk about the rise and fall of the Bradford canal – how the canal system reached the city of Bradford and why it died.

May
28
Wed
Monthly Walk: Route TBC @ TBC
May 28 all-day