A trail over Pictish Scotland. Bring your car or get to Inverness area by train
Itinery Sat 3rd September
06.35 depart Edinburgh Waverley
10.28 arrive Inverness or Tain
(then car to Inver, near Portmahomack)
12.00 lunch at Inver Restaurant
(then car to Tarbat Discovery Centre)
13.30 Tarbat Discovery Centre
16.15 leave by car for Nigg – Cromarty ferry
17.00 (or thereabouts!) ferry to Cromarty
19.30 dinner at Royal Hotel Cromarty
(then stay overnight in various B&Bs in Cromarty area; (the Royal Hotel is fully booked!)
Sun 4th September
09.00 Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie
12.00 lunch at restaurant to be determined
14.30 depart on Jacobite Rebel for 2 hour Loch Ness cruise
16.30 return to Inverness centre, maybe for a snack
18.57 depart Inverness
22.41 arrive Edinburgh
Chris says:
TARS Northern Region
Sunday 16th October 2022
Join us on a visit to Tanfield Railway (Durham 12 miles Gateshead 7 miles)
Arrive in Durham by train and I can give up to 4 people a lift!
Meet at East Tanfield Station at around 11 am to have coffee in The Waiting Room Cafe, look at the shop and catch the 11.50 from East Tanfield DH9 9UY. You can get on and off at any station. There is usually lots to see around the sheds at Marley Hill (Near Andrews House station) and at East Tanfield.
Find out more about this lovely little railway on www. Tanfield-railway.co.uk
We suggest lunch at Causey Arch station at 12. 45. If the weather is good there is a picnic area. There is also a café, and over the road a pub. Walk down and see the oldest railway bridge in the world. Then catch the train back to East Tanfield or walk back through a lovely wooded ravine (uneven steps and rough footpath)
You could even be really decadent and take another trip on the 14.30, with afternoon tea on a table for two for £58!
Tanfield is standard gauge and runs nearly all steam engines – mostly ex colliery saddletanks. I’ll know which engine should be running a couple of days before. The line is about 3 miles each way, running through lovely countryside. One hour round trip.
For full day tickets: (Book online the day before and get 10% discount)
Price:
£13.50 adult
£11.50 Senior
£1.00 child (under 5 free)
Contact Elizabeth elizabeth.williams10@aol.com Tel: 07897246670
Brian Hopton has kindly given us permission to read some of the Sparkinson interviews, written by him, Jill Goulder and Paul Crisp, from “Ransome Centre Stage”. We are going to have three different ‘Sparkinsons’ and three interviewees this time.
If you would like to join us and have not already received the Zoom link here it is –
Simon Dell has kindly agreed to do another talk for us, all about the Tavistock Canal. Tars from different regions are very welcome to join us, just let me know so that Susan, the host, will have some idea of numbers to be let in – here is the link –
Diana is busy compiling a quiz based on ‘Picts & Martyrs’, which we hope will give those of us without elephant-like memories more of a chance of getting some questions right, by reading the book again first.
Here is the link if you like to join in, all welcome, but please let me know if you are going to join so that the host has an idea of numbers – thanks.
Time: Nov 25, 2023 03:45 PM London
Passcode: 297872
Hi All
Happy New Year! It’s that time when we think about events for 2024 starting with a Birthday Party in Weaverham Scout Hall. The Scout Hall, Church Street, Weaverham, CW8 3NJ on Sat 27th January, 2024. Theme – The Big Six. Detecting, Lurking, clues and mystery games. Bring and Share Lunch. We are hoping that members in the south of the region will find this an opportunity to came and meet up.
Do let me know if you’d like to attend but need help to find it
All the Best and TARS for Ever
Helen Lewis
TARS NR sec
We are delighted that Alan Kennedy has agreed to give us another talk. Below is a synopsis to whet your appetite, and also the link to join us.
‘It is obvious that Arthur Ransome’s novels are filled with echoes of his own turbulent life. Were these parallels intended or were they simply a case of an author’s preoccupations leaking into his text? Do we risk reading too much into things and finding allusions where none were meant? These perennial questions have divided readers but an examination of the contacts Ransome made while working in Paris in the early years of the century suggests at least one radical answer. I claim Ransome’s fictional technique grew out of his deep interest in symbolist experiments in literature and his work can be read as very much part of that tradition.’
Topic: Alan Kennedy Zoom Meeting
Time: Feb 10, 2024 06:45 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82841162735?pwd=K0lHY0FJMEpzZ2F6TU91QzBjaFU0UT09
Meeting ID: 828 4116 2735
Passcode: 893329
We will again be asking for volunteers from any region to read the parts of ‘Sparkinson’, Colonel Jolys, Molly Blackett and Maria Turner (the GA).
Here is the link:
Topic: Sparkinsons Zoom Meeting
Time: Jul 13, 2024 04:15 PM London
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Meeting ID: 883 9388 4616
Passcode: 688395