Mad Men and Artists – How the Advertising Industry Exploited Fine Art
In the middle ages, when many people could not read, advertising was graphic, ie. the ‘medium is the message’. Metal[…]
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Author: Peter Crowfoot
Visit to Rochester Thursday 19 September 2019
It was a beautiful sunny day to discover Rochester and its historic old High Street as we strolled along to[…]
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Christmas Lunch at Waveley Abbey House – Monday 16 December 2019
We’ll again be holding our Christmas lunch at Waverley Abbey House. It’s a lovely grade II listed Georgian mansion by[…]
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Photos of visit to Rochester 19 September 2019
The Renaissance Water Garden – still being completed
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Tour to Lisbon 24 – 29 April 2022
Our 2022 tour will take us to Lisbon. The second oldest capital city in Europe after Athens and the capital[…]
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Visit to Parham House and the ‘2nd Sistine Chapel -12 June 2019
Parham House, south of Pulborough in West Sussex, dates from Elizabethan times and lies in an estate of nearly 900[…]
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Visit to Fairford and Buscot Park – 10 April 2019
Fine, sunny weather greeted us at St. Mary’s church at Fairford revealing the medieval stained glass windows in their full[…]
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Visit to the Adam Aaronson glassblowing studio – 31 January
For a couple of days it looked as if we might have to postpone our trip to the glassblowing studio[…]
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Christmas Lunch at Waverley Abbey House – 17th December 2018
On a cold and frosty, but sunny, December morning 81 members and guests of The Arts Society Grayshott met for[…]
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Visit to St Mary’s Fairford and Buscot Park – Wednesday 10th April 2019
Guided tour of the beautiful 15th C stained glass windows in St Mary’s, followed by a Thameside pub lunch and[…]
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Visit to Historic Rochester, including the Cathedral and the Restoration House – Thursday 19th September
An important inspiration for Charles Dickens, Rochester retains many mediaeval features, including houses in the High Street, the cathedral and[…]
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Visit to the Adam Aaronson Glassblowing Studio – Thursday 31 January 2019
Adam Aaronson has been at the forefront of contemporary glass artistry for some 40 years. We will have an afternoon[…]
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Visit to Parham House and the ‘2nd Sistine Chapel’ – Wednesday 12 June 2019
Guided tour of Parham House, one of our finest Elizabethan Houses, with its collection of art, furniture and early needlework[…]
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Visit to Hatfield House, 26th September 2018
Fortune was smiling on us for our visit to Hatfield House as not only were the A3 and M25 kind[…]
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Tour to Vienna – 13 – 18 September 2018
Vienna is known especially as a city of art, history, music.……..and cake. Suffice it to say that we enjoyed all[…]
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