SUMMER WALKS

PROGRAMME FOR 2010

ALL WALKS ARE ON A MONDAY EVENING - MEETING AT 6.45pm FOR A 7pm START

NO NEED TO PRE-BOOK BUT YOU PAY £2 PER PERSON ON THE EVENING OF THE WALK

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUERIES, PLEASE TELEPHONE MIKE HOOPER ON 0117 9775512

MONDAY 10TH MAY - PILL:

LEADER: Elizabeth White - a local resident and historian.

WALK: A walk around Pill, our own virtual “Cornish” village, so often by-passed on the

main road from Bristol to the motorway. A chance to find out about the

importance of the village to the development of Bristol’s docks.

DIRECTIONS: Meet at the green, Baltic Place, at the end of Ham Green/Pill Road, off the

A369 from Bristol.

MONDAY 14TH JUNE - NAILSEA:

LEADER: Trevor Bowen - researcher into the local glass making industry.

WALK: An opportunity to learn about Nailsea’s very important glass making industrial

past, its “Blue” glass and the terrible conditions of the workers involved.

DIRECTIONS: Meet at the Tesco car park off the High Street.

MONDAY 12TH JULY - FRAMPTON COTTERELL:

LEADER: Trevor Thompson - of the Local History Society.

WALK: Discover the secrets of the once very industrialised little village and its

connection with the “mad hatters” of South Gloucestershire.

DIRECTIONS: Assemble at the Globe Public House car park. Park here or in Mill Lane and

Meadow Mead, alongside. If travelling on the Badminton Road A432, turn left

down Park Lane, before the railway viaduct, on the Bristol side of the town.

Meadow Mead is at the far end just before the Church Road junction.

MONDAY 9TH AUGUST - SALTFORD:

LEADER: Brian Cooper - local historian.

WALK: A pleasant walk around this lovely, very ancient, village, with hidden

treasures often missed by the casual commuter.

DIRECTIONS: Meet at the car park in The Shallows (the road running alongside the River

Avon). From Bristol, turn left down Norman Road and High Street, and turn

right at the public house on the corner.