General Meeting No. 1203 was held in the
evening of Saturday 1st December at
Brentwood School, 39 members and pupils
of the school attended an illustrated talk
by Mrs. L. Stack about her work at the
Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust Reserve.
The Club would like to thank the
Headmaster of Brentwood School for allowing
the use of the school library.
Maureen Tollfree.
Boxing Dav Ramble.
On Boxing Day, 15 members of the
Essex Field Club met at the Wake Arms
public house near Epping. The intention
was to walk along the Forest Way for the
first six miles. This is the long-distance
footpath between the forests of Epping and
Hatfield. Our leader, Ron Allen, arranged
for a car to be left at our anticipated
finishing point at Ryehill while the rest
of us drove off to park at High Beach.
It was a cold raw day with a lot of mist
about, and the mobile refreshment stall
there was being well patronised by horse
riders, walkers and drivers.
When everyone had assembled, we set
out across the Forest to the start of
the Forest Way near the A121. In this
part of the Forest the ground was covered
with leaves whose colours had been
intensified by earlier rain. There was
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