Mikron Theatre Group

A Force

to be Reckoned With

With handbag, whistle and a key to the Police Box, WPC Iris Armstrong is ready for whatever the mean streets of a 1950’s market town throws at her.

Fresh from police training school, she prepares for her first day on the beat. The reality is very different. Stuck at the station, she soon finds her main jobs are typing and making brews.

Iris joins forces with fellow WPC Ruby Roberts. They’re an unlikely partnership. A two-girl department, called to any case involving women and children, from troublesome teens to fraudulent fortune tellers.

What starts as “women’s work” soon becomes a specialist role. Iris finds she’s earning her place in a historic force to be reckoned with. Along the way, she discovers the Edwardian volunteers who came before her, a lineage of Suffragettesturned-moral enforcers and the secrets that the police box hides.

In this arresting tale of law and order, join forces with Mikron as we investigate pioneering women in the police.

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Springwatch is coming to RSPB Shrikewing nature reserve. Jess, the Reserve Warden, can’t wait to show the world this special place, with its amazing wildlife and incredible birds. But Shrikewing is not an island. From pollution and vandals to an overzealous mayor, Jess is starting to feel that protecting birds from human interference might just be impossible. As we meet raucous rooks, booming bitterns and plenty of tits we realise the birds of Shrikewing are its real stars. Can Jess take inspiration from the RSPB’s tenacious female founders and draw on its history of campaigning to save them? Can she find her own voice to raise a rallying cry for nature?

Nest(le) down with Mikron in this flight through birdwatching history, feathered with birdsong and laughter. You’ll be giggling from heron in and you won’t ‘egret coming!

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Towpath Walks Group

The Start time for all Walks is 2.30pm. Normal charge: £15. Concessionary and Student rate: £10. Children aged 16 and over, accompanied by parents: £10. Children aged 8 – 15, accompanied by parents: £5. (Children under 8, accompanied by parents, go for free).

Prior booking is mandatory: Please contact London Walks: 020 7624 3978. Or email them at: london@walks.com. It is Very Important to watch the IWA website - www.waterways.org.uk - or the London Walks website – www.walks.com - to see if any late changes to the walk have had to be made. Towpath Walks Group are looking for volunteers to guide small parties of walkers on short walks along the towpath of the Regent’s Canal (and elsewhere). This introduces newcomers to the pleasant world of waterways – which most outsiders don’t realise is here! It is also a good way of recruiting new members to IWA. No experience? No problem, we’ll brief you.

Sun 2nd July: Regent’s Canal: King’s Cross - Granary Square – St. Pancras. Meet King’s Cross (meet by Taxi Queue next to Pret a Manger)

Sun 16th July: Regent’s Canal: Mile End – Haggerston. Meet Mile End

Sat 29th July: Grand Union Canal: Kensal Green – Little Venice. Meet Kensal Green

Sun 6th Aug: Regent’s Canal: R.Tyburn – Little Venice. Meet Baker St (Baker St north/Lords exit)

Sun 20th Aug: Limehouse – Thames – Docklands. Meet Westferry (DLR)(by Cycle Hire Point)

Sun 27th Aug: Regent’s Canal: Islington – Kingsland Road. Meet Angel

Sun 3rd Sep: Regent’s Canal: King’s Cross - Granary Square – Camden. Meet King’s Cross (meet by Taxi Queue next to Pret a Manger)

Sun 17th Sep: Regent’s Canal: King’s Cross – Hitchcock’s Hackney. Meet King’s Cross (meet by Taxi Queue next to Pret a Manger)

Sun 1st Oct: Regent’s Canal: Mile End – Limehouse. Meet Mile End

Sun 15th Oct: Regent’s Canal: King’s Cross - Granary Square – St. Pancras. Meet King’s Cross (meet by Taxi Queue next to Pret a Manger)

Sun 5th Nov: Royal Victoria Dock – East India Dock. Meet Royal Victoria (DLR)(IFS Cloud/Seagull Lane exit)

Sun 19th Nov: Regent’s Canal: R.Tyburn – Little Venice. Meet Baker St (Baker St north/Lords exit)