With the UL considering themselves a most highly cultured society these days, it seemed high time that London’s Theatreland was graced with our presence again. So our secretary, Mariko sent out an e-mail asking who will buy tickets for the classic West End production of Oliver! Now after spending a short time reviewing the situation,
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We all gathered at the northern end of Regents Park near Camden Town at 11.30 with a nice sunny day for the annual picnic. As usual the organiser had asked people to bring certain foods and drink, and there was a good turnout of 15 or so ULers past and present! Rupert’s exuberance meant that
The treasure hunt this year was organised by Heather and Jacqui. It was based on the Square Mile, which basically means that most of the answers to the questions could be found within the Square Mile. I say most, as one of the organisers assumed the Square Mile was actually a square, and failed to
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A band of regular UL “Thursday Night” members including two freshers entered the 38th Annual Tewkesbury Shield competition. We had (unusually for us) a good draw when compared to the OUS (the only people we really wanted to beat!) who had not only been up since 5am to ring for May Morning, but had a
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Arriving in the town particularly early, I took the chance to explore the centre a little, learn the road layouts, and do a quick check over the suggested pubs to see if they’d match up to expectations – they didn’t. So I went onto an easy pub to find for those arriving by train: The
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This year’s UL trip to Lundy came with a new twist- for the first time 15 intrepid souls committed themselves to an entire week of each other’s company, with a further 24 coming to inspect the wreckage for the final long weekend and, in the process, breaking last year’s record of 37 attendees. The full-week
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The PANCAKE PARTY this year was organised by HELLEN Richardson and saw a small, but faithful group of pancake partiers heading to Hellen’s place near KENTISH TOWN OVERGROUND station to cook, TOSS and eat huge amounts of pancakes to celebrate the start of LENT. From the photos I can find (as this was a very
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This year’s UL peal weekend was held on the 12th-14th February. Things started well on the Friday night with a successful handbell peal of Yorkshire Major, which was Nick Harley’s first of Surprise on handbells. There was also a tower-bell peal of spliced Uxbridge, London, Superlative, Cambridge and Rutland Surprise Major at Rotherhithe. This was
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Having arrived at Hook station bright and early, we were led off to the first tower of the day, Rotherwick, a decidedly uninteresting six with the only highlights being a post in the middle of the floor with Grandsire written out on each side, and a tenor which was so light set that each touch
Dinner weekend kicked off on the Friday night with ringing at St Magnus the Martyr followed by drinking in the nearby Walrus and Carpenter. This was many members’ first ring on the bells, which were installed earlier in the year. Due to building work at the Queens Tower we were unable to ring there on
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