The club organises trips to events of all kinds, based on the interests of existing members.
Previous Events
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Brunch@Badgemore September 2024
16 members turned out this month to enjoy a delicious brunch at Badgemore Park.
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Brunch@Badgemore July 2024
Members enjoyed another Brunch@Badgemore get together at Badgemore Park.
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Probus @ RBH Medical Museum
On March 20th 2024 Henley Probus visited Reading’s Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) and the Royal Berkshire Hospital Medical Museum. Demand for a club visit to the Royal Berkshire Hospital Medical museum followed a previous talk that Richard Havelock (shown in the picture above) gave to the club about the museum. The MERL is…
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Brunch@Badgemore March 2024
Members celebrated the coming of Spring by meeting for another Brunch@Badgemore get together at Badgemore Park.
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Brunch@Badgemore January 2024
Members celebrated the new year by meeting for another Brunch@Badgemore get together at Badgemore Park.
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Probus @ High Society
Christmas & New Year in Style: The Club went to the popular musical ‘High Society’ at the Mill at Sonning on Wednesday 17th January 2024. The Restaurant provided an excellent meal before the performance – a feel good musical is based on the 1956 film which starred Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra. The…
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Brunch@Badgemore June 2023
On June 27th 2023 Club members joined Mike Spong for another Brunch@Badgemore get together at Badgemore Park. … and previously … On the 21st February Club members met to chat over a delicious breakfast/Brunch at Badgemore Park.
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Hay Fever without sneezes
In March 2023 over 25 club members and friends went to see a superb production of Noel Coward’s classic play ‘Hay Fever’. The setting was a country house in Cookham in the 1920s with lively householders and visitors creating at times chaotic scenes, which made a fascinating and really amusing play. ‘You can see Marlow…
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Trip to Waddesdon Manor
During November 2022 Club members joined Ladies Probus Club members for a trip to Waddesdon Manor, to see the beautiful Christmas decorations, lights and market.
During recent years Henley Probus Club members have also enjoyed visits to:
- Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes, the centre for World War 2 secret code breaking.
- Brooklands Motor Museum near Weybridge, with displays of aviation, motor sport, cars, motorcycles, buses, aircraft.
- An original Concorde plane
- Saville Gardens, Britain’s finest ornamental garden, part of Windsor Great Park which followed a talk from the garden designer at a previous Henley Probus meeting.
- The Bremont watch factory in Henley-on-Thames.
- Kew Gardens, which included lunch prepared from plants grown in the gardens.
- The Royal Horticultural Society gardens in Wisley (near Guildford), which included conducted garden tours specially for our group.
- The SS Great Britain in Bristol Dry Dock, where the ship was originally built.
- The Soldiers of Oxfordshire museum in Woodstock, a few weeks after the museum opened.
- The British Legion Poppy Factory in Richmond, including all group members making poppies for Remembrance Day.
- A narrow boat in Hungerford, for a trip on the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Overseas outings have been to:
- Bruges in Belgium, including visits to WW2 war graves, WW2 trenches and attending a very moving ceremony at the Menin Memorial Gate in Ypres dedicated to the 54 thousand missing soldiers killed in Flanders in WW2.
- Killarney in west Ireland.
Visits to theatre performances at:
- The Mill at Sonning.
- The Watermill at Newbury.
- The Yvonne Arnaud at Guildford.
- The RSC at Stratford on Avon, to see King Lear.