Events

AN EXTRA EVENT FOR JULY 2017

Day Out at the Dacorum Steam and Country Fayre at Potten End.

TWO EXTRA EVENTS FOR AUGUST 2017

Pot Luck Supper in a member’s home in Hemel Hempstead

Meal at The Long Arm and the Short Arm, Lemsford.

PUB NIGHTS
King William IV, St Albans
The Hare and Hounds, St Albans
The Prae Wood Arms, St Albans
The White Lion, St Albans
The Chequers, Redbourn Rd, St Albans, with option of meal beforehand.

MEALS OUT
Lunch at pub on the Hatfield Rd, St Albans
Afternoon Tea at The Green Dragon, London Colney

QUIZZES
Pilot Club members join the regular Monday night quiz at a pub on Hatfield Rd, St Albans

AFTERNOON VISIT
Tea at a member’s home/garden, followed by walk to the Celebration Garden at Ayletts Nursery, St Albans

DAYS OUT
Trip to Bedford for guided walk about houses and their history, plus a visit to exhibitions on Victorian Art, Edward Bawden, and Shorts Brothers’ Airships at Higgins Museum. Travel by train from St Albans.

Trip to Broadstairs for Open Studios, sandy beaches, ice-cream parlours, bandstand etc. Travel by train from St Albans or meet for train from St Pancras .

CINEMA
“An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” at Garden City Cinema, Campus West, Welwyn Garden City.

LATE EVENTS
Sometimes more events for the month’s programme are submitted after it has been compiled. Details of these will be emailed to members.

If you would like to join any of these events, please contact the New Members’ Co-ordinator via the box on the main page of this website. If you give your phone-number, you will be contacted with further information about the club. Please give your address, as the first of your 3 programmes will be posted to you, and the next 2 will be emailed to you.

Another event for July :
Street Party in St Michael’s area of St Albans. Start with pub barbecue.

LUNCH at the popular pub on the Hatfield Road, St Albans

Note: sometimes events are submitted for our programme after it has been compiled.
If you are a member, details of these late events will be emailed to you.

PILOT CLUB EVENTS FOR
JULY 2017

PILOT CLUB SUMMER EVENT

• Quiz with professional quiz-masters at Charles
  Morris Hall, Tyttenhanger, St. Albans.
  Nibbles, and bring-your-own drinks.

PUB NIGHTS

• Waterend Barn, St Albans, with option of meal beforehand.
• The Green Dragon, London Colney.
• The Prae Wood Arms, Redbourn Rd, St Albans
• The Three Hammers, Chiswell Gn, St Albans

DAYS OUT

• Guided walk around Isle of Dogs. Travel by
  train from St Albans
• Open Gardens at Ramsbury Rd, St Albans
• Trip to Margate, to see exhibitions at Turner Contemporary
  Gallery, and, of course, the sea and beaches. Travel by train (from St Albans via St Pancras)
• Open Gardens at village of Braughing, Herts,
  with vehicles of the past, cream teas etc. (Travel by car, possible
  car-share)
• Trip to IKEA at Wembley. Meet there. (or
  possible car-share)
• Classics on the Common at Harpenden. 1000
  vehicles (late afternoon visit). Meal at Skew Bridge Harpenden, or drinks,
  afterwards, or join us for just meal/drinks.
• Butterfly Walk led by Friends of the Nicky
  Line, Harpenden

EVENING MEALS

• See above for meals at Waterend Barn, St Albans, and Skew Bridge, Harpenden.
• Pot Luck Supper at a member’s home in St Albans. Take a dish to share

AFTERNOON TEA

• In a member’s lovely garden in St Albans.

THEATRE

• “Lovesong” by Abi Morgan at Abbey Theatre, St Albans
• “The Birds” by Aristophanes in a modern
  adaptation, at Roman Theatre, Verulamium, St Albans.

CINEMA

• “Going in Style” at Alban Arena.

QUIZZES

• Pilot club members join the regular Monday
  night quiz at the pub on the Hatfield Road, St Albans.

CLUBS WITHIN THE CLUB

Pilot Club has a Bridge
Club (weekly), Snooker Club (weekly) and Supper Club (monthly).

• If you would like to join any of these events,
  please contact the New Members’ Co-ordinator, using the box on the main
  page of this website. Please give your address (the first programme will
  be posted to you, and the next two will be emailed). You can attend 3
  events within a 3-month period before joining.
• As well as the monthly printed programme,
  which is circulated to members, late events are sometimes added, and
  members are told of these by email.
• The Pilot Club programme is made up of events
  submitted and hosted by members, so whatever you want to do, you can put
  an event in the programme, and other members will be able to join you.

Another event for June 2017

BARN DANCE at Samuel Ryder Academy, St Albans

WALK – in Heartwood Forest, near Sandridge, followed by visit to local pub
THEATRE – Play “Lovesong” by Abi Morgan at Abbey Theatre, St Albans

Extra events are sometimes added to our Pilot Club programme after it has been compiled ready for the start of the month. Details of these extra events are circulated to club members by email.

PILOT CLUB EVENTS FOR
JUNE 2017

Pub Nights:

• The Chequers, Redbourn
• The Ski Centre, Hemel Hempstead with option of meal beforehand
• The Skew Bridge, Southdown, Harpenden, with option of meal
  beforehand.
• The Prae Wood Arms, Redbourn Rd, St Albans.
• The Garibaldi, St Albans

Meals Out:

First Tuesday lunch at pub
on Hatfield
Rd

Quizzes:

Regular Monday night quiz
at pub on Hatfield
Rd (not
bank holidays)

Days Out:

• Spa Valley Railway and Groombridge Place Gardens, by coach
• Heavy Horse Show at Capel Manor, Enfield
• Garden Party at Ashridge House, with stalls
  and cream teas
• Open Garden Squares in London by train
• Home and Garden Show at Capel Manor, Enfield

Evenings Out:

Films

• “Moonlight” at Arena, St Albans
• “Viceroy’s House” at Arena, St Albans (we’re going to a matinee as well)
• “Lion” at Arena, St Albans

Play

Shaw’s “Major Barbara” in
the playwright’s garden at Shaw’s Corner, Ayot St Lawrence. Picnic in the garden before the play

Music

“A Century of Jazz” at The
Maltings, St Albans

CLUBS WITHIN PILOT CLUB

Bridge Club meets weekly.
Snooker Club meets weekly. Supper Club meets about once a month

COMING UP IN JULY

• Guided walk of Isle of Dogs, travel by train
  from St Albans
• River Trent Cruise, with coach to Nottingham
• Pilot Club Summer Event – quiz with
  professional Quiz Master

If you think you would
enjoy some of these events, in the company of other Pilot club members, please
contact the New Members’ Co-ordinator, using the contact box on the main page
of this website.

You can attend 3 events
within a 3-month period before joining.

Please give your
address (The first programme will be posted to you – the next two will be
emailed to you.) Please leave your telephone number so you can be contacted to
give you more information about the club.

Pilot Club programme is
made up by the members hosting events. So whatever you want to do, you can put
it in the club programme, and other members can join you.