Days of Interest - Trips for 2023

Saturday 18 February - Lunch at Longcliffe Golf Club
Saturday 18 March - Leeds
Saturday 22 April - Newstead Abbey and D H Lawrence Museum
Saturday 20 May - Cromford Museum and Ecclesbourne Railway
Saturday 10 June - Southwold
Saturday 8 July - Tewkesbury Medieval Festival
Saturday 19 August - Chester
Saturday 23 September - Packwood House and Baddesley Clinton
Saturday 21 October - Moseley Old Hall and Whitwick Manor (NT)

The Trips Calendar will give information about whether the trip is open for booking or whether it is full.

If you are interested in joining us on any of these trips, please contact Pauline May at DaysofInterest@charnwoodu3a.org.uk or 01509 552834 for details.


Newstead Abbey
decorative image only
Photo by: Shelley Rodrigo from Mesa, AZ, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
decorative image only
Hardwick Hall
Days of Interest
Activity

A leisurely coach trip out on a Saturday each month to visit a place of interest. We visit towns and cities, historic houses, museums, exhibitions, gardens and so on, usually within a couple of hour's travelling time.

(We do not have a trip in December; in January we have a visit to the theatre and in February a meal together.

Where and When

Venue: Various places of interest
Frequency: Monthly
Day: 3rd Saturday
Time: Depends on desitination
Other Information

Group Charge: Joining Fee £5.00, Postal Members Annual Fee: £5:00 plus for each trip a share of the cost of coach, entrance fees etc.
Group Size: 180

Contact Details

Bookings: Jill Strachan
Telephone: Available in Password Controlled Members Area
Email: DaysofInterest@charnwoodu3a.org.uk

Membership: Pauline May
Telephone: Visit Members Area
Email: DaysofInterest@charnwoodu3a.org.uk
Days of Interest - Trips for 2022

Saturday 19 November - Christmas at Blenheim
Saturday 15 October - Oxford
Saturday 17 September - Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Nostell
Saturday 20 August - Althorp House
Saturday 16 July - Snowshill Manor
Saturday 18 June - Landudno
Saturday 21 May - Haworth - 1940s weekend
Saturday 9 April - Kidderminster & Severn Valley Railway
Saturday 19 March - Shrewsbury

If you are interested in joining us on any of these trips, please contact Pauline May at DaysofInterest@charnwoodu3a.org.uk or 01509 552834 for details.



decorative image only
Chritsmas at Blenhaim Palace.
Image copyright: Blenheim Palace
Days of Interest - Saturday 9 April -
Kidderminster & Severn Valley Railway

The Days of Interest Group has spaces available on our April trip on the Severn Valley Railway and to the Kidderminster Carpet Museum. Bookings will close soon so please contact Pauline May or Jill Strachan if you would like to join the trip.

We start the day with a visit to the Kidderminster Carpet Museum. In a guided tour discover how carpets were made locally in Kidderminster then sold regionally, nationally and internationally. Meet Weavers, Spinners and ex-Carpet Industry Workers and find about how they lived and worked. Compare carpet weaving before and after the Industrial Revolution. There will also be a chance to see weaving demonstrations. Carpet Museum Access Statement . After some free time in Kidderminster, in the afternoon we take a trip on the picturesque Severn Valley Heritage Railway. We board at Kidderminster and break our journey at Highley, where we have a chance to have a quick look at the engine shed. We then complete our journey to Bridgnorth where our coach will pick us up. Severn Valley Railway Access Statement .
 Price: £41.50 per person
 Depart Loughborough, Park Road Tesco car park at 8:30 a.m.      
Leave Bridgnorth at 5:00 p.m.
If you are interested in joining us, please contact Pauline May at DaysofInterest@charnwoodu3a.org.uk or 01509 552834 as soon as possible.



decorative image only
Museum of Carpets
decorative image only
Severn Valley Railway
Days of Interest - 27 November 2021
Trip to Doddington Hall and Lincoln

In the morning we visited Doddington Hall to see the Elizabethan house decorated for Christmas. The theme for 2021 was Secret Gardens.

In the afternoon we made the short journey to Lincoln itself where we investigated the medieval city, did some Christmas shopping or enjoyed the cafés.



decorative image only
Doddington Hall
decorative image only
Lincoln Cathedral
Days of Interest - 16 October 2021
Trip to Tattershall Castle and
Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

On October 16th we had trip to Tattershall Castle and the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre. In the morning we visited Tattershall Castle (pictured right), a National Trust property with huge gothic fireplaces and fine medieval brickwork. In the afternoon we move onto the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, which is the only Airfield Museum in the country recreated to its original design and sited on an original WW2 airfield.


decorative image only

decorative image only
Days of Interest - 18 September 2021
Stratford upon Avon

If you are interested in joining us on future trips, please contact Pauline May at DaysofInterest@charnwoodu3a.org.uk or 01509 552834 for details.



decorative image only
Days of Interest

Saturday 28th August 2021,
Rutland Water + Gates Nursery
Our second trip, on Saturday 28th August, began with a short cruise on Rutland Water in the Rutland Belle, followed by a visit to the nearby Gates Nursery. The cost for the Rutland Belle and Gates Nursery in August was £21.50 per person.


decorative image only
The Rutland Belle
decorative image only
Gates Garden Centre
Days of Interest

Saturday 24th July, Buxton and Bakewell
We are - hopefully – back in business, with trips in both July and August 2021.

Our first trip, on Saturday 24th July 2021, was to Buxton and Bakewell.

The cost of the Buxton and Bakewell trip in July was £12 per person

decorative image only
The Crescent, Buxton
decorative image only
Bakewell