Thursday 17th July. 11am Meet in the Stables Café of Lamport Hall, Lamport, Northants, NN6 9EZ, before exploring the Hall and gardens. Admission for house and gardens is £16.00 and for gardens only £11.00. The Hall was developed from a Tudor manor house and the extensive gardens are famous for the rock garden as featured on ‘Monte Don’s British Gardens’, supposedly the birthplace of the garden gnome.
Thursday 17th July. 12noon Meet at Nero’s at Gloucester Green Bus Station, Oxford, OX1 2BU. This is for the Spy Mission at Christchurch Meadows. Your assignment, if you choose to accept, is to follow the clues that will save Christchurch Meadow. Then a debriefing and late lunch at Wetherspoons, Castle Street at 15:00 hrs. Just in case you are of a nervous nature, do not worry as we will be working as a group on this mission so it will be a team effort. This event will be taking place whatever the weather.