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UTRNTA Report on visit to Bury St Edmunds Cathedral After a very short coach journey we arrived a few hundred yards from St Edmunsbury...

Sunday 15th June 2025 Our first day on the holiday to Suffolk, staying at Bury St Edmunds. We had a lunchtime stop with a soup and...

We were made to feel most welcolme at Stanton House Hotel and, as more people arrived, tables were moved to allow us to sit as a group. ...

Hughenden Manor: 22 May 2025 Forty-eight members visited Hughenden Manor on a sunny day of 22 May 2025. The property carries a nickname...

Peter Williams spent four years in Berlin in the 1980s as an officer in BRIXMIS, the British military liaison mission to the Soviet army...

The bluebells are beautiful in the NT woodland at Badbury Clump which is near Great Coxwell, Faringdon, -where there is also an...

On a beautiful, sunny, springlike, April morning members enjoyed a coffee and chat at Hilliers Garden Centre in Lechlade. Tables were...

Bill King started with ancient history about the importance of the Thames and defence measures in the south of England at the time of the...

Bodleian Library Book Storage Facility (BSF), South Marston, UTRNTA visit 5 March 2025 Compared with the historic reputation of the...

Stella's funeral will be on Friday 7th March at 12 30pm at St Andrews church Shrivenham. The committal will follow at Kingsdown...

Stewart Smith with some of the information passed onto us. February 11th 2025 How valuable it is to learn about secret activity that...

Raising a glass to Stella Tidmarsh, the organiser of countless holidays and outings, for the UTRNTA who recently passed away Once again a...

In January, we said goodbye to Christian Walker and have given new General Manager, Keith Assirati-Wilkie, a warm welcome. A reflection...

Lew Lawton's talk on the Chinese Terracotta Warriors also included a short introduction and explanation of some of their hieroglyphics,...

Having walked down from the car park under a glorious clear blue sky, we were welcomed in the porch with a brief history of Chastleton...

Three Trees coffee shop was the venue for our last coffee meeting of the year. After the dire weather at the weekend it was a pleasure to...

William Cavendish, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Devonshire, was a man who, according to one of his contemporaries, “couldn’t leave home...

This has been my first year as Chairman of the UTRNTA and so this is my first annual report, and I really want to report just what a good...

Lucille Terry has belonged to this group for YEARS. I am sure she has introduced many others, besides my husband and I, to this local...

Outing to Chedworth October 11th What a fabulous visit. The outing could not have been arranged on a finer day, the sun shone, the sky...