February

Our AGM

Held at the Masonic Hall, Upminster

Followed by a delicious lunch as usual.

March

The Barclays London Eastern Pensioners Club enjoyed a really good afternoon at the Sondheim Theatre-London for a performance of the amazing "Les Miserables" Somehow our events organizer managed to get us really good seats at a reasonable cost.  A great time was had by all.

April

On a cloudy morning, a group of twenty members assembled at Manor Park station for a walk around Wanstead Flats and Park.

LEPC Committee member Kevin Mason led the walk, we learnt about the history of the flats, how it came to be a protected open space, how the land was used in wartime and more recently during the London Olympics and as a morgue during Covid times.

We left the flats and walked up to Wanstead Park for a tea stop and used the facilities prior to the highlight of the walk looking at the Bluebells in bloom in Chalet wood. We then walked around Heronry Lake taking time to look at the site of Wanstead House.

Back onto the flats we walked across many football pitches and saw where prefab housing had been erected after the Second World War.

The two-and-a-half-mile walk ended at the Gloden Fleece where the walkers’ enjoyed refreshments and a well-earned lunch.