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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
VISIT TO BUCKHURST HILL AND WOODFORD
(599TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 4TH JULY, 1925.
This excursion was arranged in response to an invitation to the Club
from our Hon. Treasurer, Mr. John Avery, and Mrs. Avery, to visit them
at Croft Lodge, Woodford. An afternoon nature-ramble through Lords
Bushes was combined with the visit.
The party of forty members assembled at Buckhurst Hill station just
before 3 o'clock, and proceeded into the neighbouring detached portion
of Epping Forest, which is known as Lords, or Lodge, Bushes, where general
observation was made by those interested of the plants, birds, etc., met
with; but no detailed researches were attempted. From here the route
was by way of Monkhams Lane to Woodford Green, and so along Snakes
Lane to Croft Lodge, which was reached shortly before 5 o'clock.
Tea was taken on the lawn, following which a short formal meeting of
the Club was held, with the President in the chair, when three new members
were elected, viz.:—
Mrs. Catherine M. Wheeler, of "Chester House," 58, Amhurst Park, N.16.
Miss Doris E. Keeves, M.B., Ch.B., of "Haslemere," Hutton.
Mr. Charles Hall Crouch, of "Thornhill," 204, Hermon Hill, South
Woodford, E.18.
The Hon. Secretary expressed the pleasure of the members at the
return of the President, Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, this being the
first occasion upon which he has been able to attend a Club meeting since
his accident in March last. The members present warmly endorsed the
sentiment by their applause.
The President, in the name of the Club, thanked our host and hostess
for their kindly hospitality, and Mr. Avery briefly replied, expressing the
hope that the present visit would not be the last which the Club would
pay him.
Afterwards the visitors spent some time in inspecting some of Mr.
Avery's new acquisitions of portrait-prints and other items from his
extensive collections, and in rambling about the retired grounds.
VISIT TO SHENFIELD AND HUTTON (600TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 1925.
In response to a kind invitation from our member, Mr. James Keeves
and Mrs. Keeves, for the Club to visit them again at "Haslemere," Hutton
Mount, an all-day nature ramble was organised for the above date in this
interesting tract of Mid-Essex country. The weather was unfortunately
most inclement, with driving rain, but nevertheless over 30 members
attended, and duly carried out the day's programme.
Shenfield Station was left, after some delay due to heavy rain, at
about mid-day, and a move was made for the extensive brickworks which
lie some half-mile to the S.S.W. The working-face of the pit here shows
some 4 feet (exposed) of the top of the London Clay, no Septaria being
seen. Overlying this is some 20 ft. thickness of Passage Beds of the thin-