Full details and booking slip are included in the FEBRUARY edition of your PHOENIX Newsletter
Day: Saturday (monthly)
Time: 12.00 noon for 12.30pm meal
Group Leader: Jenny Bloor
Jenny offers a warm welcome to new members who enjoy eating out and who would come to dine as a solo person.
Many thanks to Pat Wilkinson for organising a second outing to the THURSFORD SPECTACULAR
Thanks to James Bergin for the photographs.
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Attendance: £2.50 per session
Time: Monday 10.00 am-12.15 pm
Venue: Walton Village Hall
Many thanks to Pat Hayward for organising the trip
You are invited to attend a TASTER session of a new group, ZUMBA GOLD
on THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7th. at 2.00 pm at Berkswich Methodist Church Hall, Walton on the Hill. The session will last for one hour and the cost will be £1!
If there is enough interest, I plan to continue the class as a regular activity group for our members. The attendance fee will be £2.50 per session, to cover hire of the hall and cost of a qualified teacher from GROOVE ACADEMY, Stafford.
http://www.grooveacademy.co.uk/aerobic-classes/
Zumba Gold is perfect for
Active older adults who are looking for a modified Zumba®class that recreates the original moves you love at a lower-intensity.
How It Works
The design of the class introduces easy-to-follow Zumba®choreography that focuses on balance, range of motion and coordination. Come ready to sweat, and prepare to leave empowered and feeling strong.
Benefits
Class focuses on all elements of fitness: cardiovascular, muscular conditioning, flexibility and balance!
For more information, please contact Rose Gwilt
This outing was led by David Wilkinson who is the retired Stafford Borough archaeologist and who used to live and work in Cirencester, known as the capital of the Cotswolds.
The award winning Corinium Museum is the must-see visitor attraction of the Cotswolds.
Leave the 21st century behind you and discover the treasures of the Cotswolds as you explore its history at this multi award winning Museum.
The Corinium Museum has one of the finest and most extensive Roman collections in the country. Corinium, Roman Cirencester, was the second largest Roman town outside London and the major Roman administration centre for south-western Britain.
Other attractions include the Brewery Arts Centre and the parish church.
by Sue James
Janet arranged an outing to Rode Hall, one of Cheshire’s most exquisite country houses. Discover more about its rich heritage and how the Baker Wilbraham family who have owned it for approaching three hundred and fifty years, have contended with the challenges of social change and architectural trends through to its ongoing conservation and restoration today.
Rode’s Grade II listed park and gardens are amongst the finest in Cheshire. A seventeenth-century survey described ‘orchards, gardens and courts within the Greene before ye hall’ but there are no further records of the grounds until 1790 when Richard Wilbraham Bootle commissioned a ‘Red Book’ from the landscape gardener Humphry Repton (1752 – 1818).
David Barker has arranged an outing to Middleport Pottery, Buslem on Thursday April 6th.
Middleport is the home of the world famous Burleigh.
At Burleigh Pottery, the skilled team of craftspeople have been producing Burleighware at The Middleport Pottery since 1889. It takes 25 pairs of hands to create a single piece of Burleigh pottery, and each pot is meticulously hand-finished. Creating something good, something that lasts, something that is above fashion and trends, something timeless, can’t be hurried.
After a tour of the factory, at about 12.30pm. our coach will take us on to Little Moreton Hall (National Trust) where lunch will be followed by a guided tour.
Cost: £22.25 per person for NT members, £30.75 for non NT members.
For full details, please see the February edition of your Newsletter
Regular weekly activity.
Our Gentle Exercise Group is back! Please note, we still have a waiting list due to numbers being restricted. Please bring your own drink.
Group Leader: Prue Bradley
Non competitive gentle exercises which are based on Tai Chi, low impact slow motion movements are designed to keep joints supple and improve flexibility. Standing and seated exercises only. i.e no floor exercises.
Shortlisted paintings:
At the Annual General Meeting, members were asked to vote for four of the following charities to support for the next twelve months:
MASE (MONTHLY ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT EVENING)
MIDLANDS AIR AMBULANCE
KATHARINE HOUSE
HOME START
DONNA LOUISE TRUST
STAFFS WILDLIFE TRUST
Members voted to continue to support KATHARINE HOUSE, STAFFS WILDLIFE TRUST, MIDLANDS AIR AMBULANCE and replace HOME START with DONNA LOUISE TRUST.
Please click on the links below for more information:
http://www.donnalouisetrust.org/
Pat arranged an outing to Oswaldtwistle Mills and Samlesbury Hall, on MARCH 14th. 2017
Oswaldtwistle Mills award-winning Shopping Village in Lancashire has something to amaze, charm and intrigue visitors of all ages. The former Weaving Mill has over 100 retailers all under one roof, 5 Restaurants, NEW Ice Cream Parlour, extensive Home, Lifestyle & Garden Centre, Mill Grounds, Aquatics Specialist, Craft Centre, Textile and Heritage Museum and even it’s own Wildfowl Reserve
In the afternoon we travel to Salmesbury Hall,a fascinating medieval house.
Our guided tour through the historic rooms is with a specialist costumed tour guide (a witch). This is followed by a Cream Tea.
Samlesbury Hall, one of the stunning stately homes of Lancashire, a haven for history lovers, where the past meets the present
The coach will drop us off in the centre of the village.
On arrival collect your old penny to pay the conductor your tram fare, and receive a ticket you can use all day. Trams depart regularly from town end, calling at various stops along the mile long track.
The exhibition takes you through a hundred years of tramway development from the first horse drawn trams through to steam and electric.
All parts of the village are easily accessible with smooth routes and ramps and lifts to all buildings. There are a variety of catering facilities on site, such as Rita’s Tea room
The Red Lion Pub
An Aladdin’s cave of treats. Old fashioned jars of sweets, tins of confectionary, foil wrapped bars of fudge and toffee, all jostle for space in the period shop.
Travel through the spectacular Snowdonia National Park to Portmaddog.
Leisurely lunch
Board the Ffestiniog Railway for the scenic one hour long journey.
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