The ABC of Boscombe: Wednesdays 10th and 24th April starting at 11am.
A history walk around Kings Park Cemetery: Saturdays 6th and 27th April starting at 11am.
Literary Bournemouth as part of the Bournemouth Writing Festival: Sunday 28th April (booking essential)
For full details of these walks please scroll down to the posts below.
Thank you everybody who came along to the BNSS for this talk. The hall was packed and there were a good number of Zooms too. Thank you too the BNSS for inviting me to talk and particularly Grenham Ireland for setting up the sound and making my visuals work without a hitch.
Saturday 10th February starting at 2.30pm at Bournemouth Natural Science Society, 39 Christchurch Rd, Bournemouth BH1 3NS … scroll down for full details
Thank you everyone who came along to my two New Year Quiz Walks on the 1st and 2nd January 2024. As you can see, we had a brilliant turn-out for the first walk in Southbourne. The second, in Westbourne, was stymied by Storm Henk but two intrepid walkers came along and we did a shortened route and slipped into Cafe 83 for warming coffees and excellent cake!!
Walks will now resume towards the end of March – depending on what the weather is up to! In the meantime have a happy, healthy and peaceful 2024. I hope to see you all when walks start up again.
Have a wonderful Christmas!!
Thank you everyone that has supported my walks and talks during 2022.
Do come along to my New Year’s Day Quiz Walk that starts at noon. Meet in the Gervis Arcade, outside Waterstone’s in Bournemouth town centre. £5 per person. No need to book, just turn up.
To find full details scroll down to the post below this one.
Here’s a pair of roller-skating Christmas parcels for you, taken a couple of years ago in Boscombe. Just so you know, roller-skating was invented in 1735 by the Belgian Joseph Merlin who introduced his new wheeled shoes at a party in London. Frenchman Monsieur Petitbled actually patented improved ‘inline’ roller-skates in 1819.
Walkingtalks will be back in 2022 – keep an eye on this website and the walkingtalks Facebook page for information … you won’t have to come on roller-skates!!! Hattie 🙂
Hello everyone, I’m very sad to have had to make the decision to cancel my idea of a 2022 New Year’s Day Quiz Walk. The Covid situation is, once again, very uncertain and I feel it is unwise to create a situation where households who do not know each other might mix. This is disappointing but I hope to start walk-up walks again in April. In the meantime, I am happy to continue with booked walks if anyone fancies getting a group together. These would be priced at £35 for up to five people and then £7 for each additional person. Keep smiling … Hattie
Hello everybody … I so hope there will be some idea of when walks can begin again soon. I suspect it won’t be much before May or even June before we can get going in any meaningful way. I hope this finds you all well and that many of you will have had your first vaccination – I have had mine!
I look forward to seeing you all again when it is permitted for us to meet up. Best wishes to all of you and do stay safe, stay well and stay happy!! Hattie 🙂
I hope you are all safe and well and able to enjoy a festive Christmas. Some of you will recognise this photograph. It’s one I took a few years ago at the Bournemouth Oceanarium. Santa is giving Friday the turtle his favourite breakfast … lettuce!! Apparently lettuce may be in short supply in coming weeks – so Friday the turtle might end up being rationed!!!
For now I am still offering ‘Take Five’ walks for anyone interested … see the post below this one for details. But I suspect, in the current Covid climate, you will all prefer to remain in your family bubbles. You will find 24 of my Lockdown Histories on the walkingtalks Facebook page. Do take a look – they are all about Bournemouth history.
Please do take care!! Hattie 🙂
Find my latest Lockdown History on composer Sir Malcolm Arnold on the walkingtalks Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Walkingtalks-286321078222678
Scroll down through the Facebook page to find lockdown history posts on various Bournemouth linked subjects including: Harriet Samuel and her house overlooking Boscombe Chine; Hotel Miramar and Count Mensdorff; Benjamin Ferry and the Royal Bath Hotel; Bournemouth Town Hall and the Mont Dore Hotel; Guglielmo Marconi and his links to Court Royal; the 1936 Typhoid epidemic; Elisabeth Scott and the Pier Theatre … and many more!
Please contact me if you are interested in a ‘Take Five Walk’ – remember that Bournemouth has been placed in Tier Two, therefore I can only lead a group of up to six people, including myself. Should you want to go indoors for refreshments after the walk you can only be accompanied by members of your own household. Contact me at hattiepix@gmail.com
Due to restrictions because of the Covid-19 pandemic, all walks for the rest of this year must be pre-booked for groups of up to five people. With me, that will make our group within the legal ‘safe six’ ruling.
The cost of a walk is £35 for the group. (Payment can be cash on the day, cheque made out to H. Miles on the day or BACs by arrangement).
To arrange and book a walk please email … hattiepix@gmail.com … with a contact name and telephone number.
For a list of walks and talks see the walks and talks section of this site. The date of your walk needs to be arranged at a mutually convenient time and the meeting point can be discussed.
Social distancing will be observed on the walks and please can everyone bring a mask, though it may not be necessary to always wear a mask – it is good to have one with you!
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