Boxmoor Playhouse
MONDAY 5 October, 10:00 REFRESHMENTS,
10.30 PRESENTATION
doors open 09:45
Andrew taught in Grammar Schools for over 40 years and is the author of a best-selling book on Contemporary British Politics. Andrew gives his audiences insights into the times through which they have lived with a sharp eye for detail and anecdote. His incisive character portraits of many very different men and women at home and abroad whose extra ordinary lives have shaped today’s world, are uniformly vivid and compelling. He looks, as well, at the huge social, cultural and attitudinal changes which have shaped today’s world and at many urgent and often controversial issues which divide us.
In 2024, Andrew dissected the Profumo Affair for us. The presentation was extremely well received. This year he talks about ‘The Second Elizabethan Age: Reliving our own Story’ which is a vivid pastiche of our many post-war social & cultural revolutions, the upheaval in values and the growth of a more permissive culture. Can you believe it?
No fee to be paid
Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups)
The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, use the link that will be supplied in the Group News closer to the date.
If you experience difficulty with the sound, turning on Captions, at the bottom of the Zoom screen on a PC or by clicking on More … on an iPad, should assist greatly. Please bear in mind that the task of getting both sound and picture to members on Zoom is fraught with difficulties. We continue to struggle on, it may not always be totally successful.
Directions
All buses running close to the Playhouse are now run by Red Eagle. https://redeagle.org.uk/
Buses between Hemel and Berkhamsted from 19th May – the 500 and 560 https://redeagle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/TT_500_0525.pdf
Local Hemel buses along St John’s Road – the H11 https://redeagle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TT_H11_0421.pdf
Boxmoor Playhouse
72 St John’s Rd
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1NP
Parking
Round the Moor
OR
55 – 57 Park Road HP1 1JS
The parking outside St John’s church now has a 3 hour limit and no return for 2 hours. This is to discourage commuters going to the station using it for all day parking. The three-hour limit works for our monthly meeting. Warning, there is someone who checks!
2026 Dates (see below for Refreshments Rota)
7 September Northchurch: Mike Barbakoff – Codebreaking against the Land of the Rising Sun
5 October Hemel: Andrew Baker – New Elizabethan Age
2 November Hemel: Ann Fletcher – The tale of the man that broke the bank at Monte Carlo
7 December Hemel: Ukulele & Folk Singing – Christmas Party
Refreshments Rota
7 September Exploring Towns and Villages
5 October Cribbage and Scrabble
2 November Italian (Step 2)
7 December Walking
This may change close to given date if a group notifies me that they are unable to find enough people
2027 Dates
4 January Hemel: Bobbie Derbyshire – Where a writer gets inspiration
1 February Hemel: Paul Barwick – The Salisbury Novichok Poisonings
1 March Northchurch: Roger Gibbons – Butterflies of Britain and Europe
See Northchurch Map
See Hemel Map
Last updated: 8 Sep ’26
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