Fund Raising Bridge Drive Wednesday 25 February 2026 1.30 – 4.30 pm
Our Annual Bridge Drive will take place on Wednesday 25th February 2025, play starting promptly at 1.30 p.m. and ending[…]
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Author: Peter Crowfoot
The Society celebrates its 40th Anniversary at Ramster Hall – 22nd July 2025
Some 80 members of the Society enjoyed a delicious champagne tea reception in the lovely Long Hall at Ramster Hall[…]
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Photos of our 40th Anniversary Champagne Tea Reception at Ramster Hall – 22 July 2025
We celebrated our 40th Anniversary with a Champagne reception and full afternoon tea in the Long Hall, which dates back[…]
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Photos of Visit to Stratfield Saye 6th May 2025
While we were not allowed to take photos inside the house, here are some of the exterior, gardens and the[…]
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Virtual Tour – Kosovo’s Capital, Pristina : Mulberry Trees, Mosques, Macchiato and Mother Teresa – Thursday 22 February 2024 at 11 am
Arts Society lecturer, writer and trainer, Elizabeth Gowing has for 15 years had a home in Pristina, where she co-founded[…]
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Virtual Tour – Mussolini and Rome – Wednesday 27 March 2024 at 10.30 am
In Italy the two decades that Benito Mussolini was in power are referred to as “il Ventennio Fascista”. In this[…]
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Virtual Tour – Museum Island, Berlin – Thursday January 25 2024 at 11 am
A UNESCO world heritage site, Berlin’s Museum Island is home to no less than five world famous museums, built orignally[…]
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Virtual Tour – Wilde about Oscar – Tuesday 21 November 2023 at 11am
London Blue Badge Guide and Arts Society lecturer Simon Whitehouse will lead us on a virtual tour on Zoom to[…]
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Special Interest Day – Tues 17 October 2023 – Monochrome to polychrome. How colours have transformed the art of garden design
Timothy Walker, former Director of the Oxford University Botanic Garden, will give three lectures : Broadening the Palette – the[…]
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Special Interest Day – Wed 22 March 2023 – Cornard Wood to Fanghorn Forest. British trees in art and literature
This special day of three lectures by Justine Hopkins will demonstrate the interest of artists and writers in forests, glades[…]
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Christmas Lunch at Frensham Pond Hotel – Monday 12 December 2022
We will again be holding our Christmas lunch in the elegant 4 star Frensham Pond Hotel, overlooking the lovely Great[…]
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Visit to Syon House and Park Wednesday 21 September
Members thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the London home of the Duke of Northumberland. Syon House is right under the[…]
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Tour to Madrid and Toledo 12 – 16 May 2023 (Note date has been changed in view of the Coronation)
Our 2023 tour will take us to see the wonderful artistic and architectural heritage of Madrid, together with Toldedo, one[…]
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Photos of visit to Syon House and Park 21 September 2022
Edward Seymour 1506 – 1552, who built the original house after the dissolution of the Bridgettine Abbey. Brother of Jane[…]
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Virtual Tour – Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden, Cape Town – Monday 6 March at 9.30 am
Lying at the Eastern foot of fabled Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is acclaimed as the most beautiful garden[…]
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Virtual Tour – A walk around Art Nouveau Vienna – Tuesday 17th January 2023 at 11am
Local guide Claudia Muchitsch will show us highlights of Vienna’s famous Art Nouveau architecture and decoration by Gustav Klimt, Otto[…]
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Virtual Tour – Treasures of the Borghese Gallery, Rome – Wednesday 8 February 2023 at 11.00 am
The Borghese Gallery houses what is arguably one of the greatest collections of art in the world. In the early[…]
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Virtual Tour – The Final Journey of the Unknown Warrior – Tuesday 15 November at 11.00am
On the morning of the 11th November 1920 the funeral of Britain’s Unknown Warrior took place at Westminster Abbey. This[…]
Read morePhotos of visit to Broughton Castle 20 June 2022
Photos of our visit courtesy of Liz Beecheno, Elaine Staff and Peter Crowfoot
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Visit to Pitzhanger Manor and Osterley House 18 May 2022
Thirty seven members of the Society boarded the coach in Grayshott first to visit Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing. Built by[…]
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