Visit to Stratfield Saye House and Gardens, Hampshire – 6 May 2025
Stratfield Saye House is a large stately home at Stratfield Saye set in the grounds of Wellington Country Park near[…]
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Category: Past Events
Fund Raising Bridge Drive Thursday 27 February 2025 at 1.45pm
Our Annual Bridge Drive will take place on Thursday 27th February 2025, play starting promptly at 1.45 p.m. and ending[…]
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Christmas Lunch at Waverley Abbey House – Tuesday 10 December 2024
Once again we will be holding our Christmas lunch at the lovely Waverley Abbey House. Set by the River Wey[…]
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Great and Small: Writers Their Pets and Other Animals by Annalie Talent- 2nd October 2025
“He prayeth best, who loveth best/All things both great and small…” Samuel Taylor Coleridge From Robert Burns’s mouse to Shelley’s skylark;[…]
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Art and Craft of the Pewterer by Andrew Spira – 4th September 2025
Pewter is a little remembered and little appreciated material but it was once at the heart of daily life all[…]
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Michael Harris: Mdina Glass & Isle of Wight Studio Glass by Mark Hill – 5th June 2025
Michael Harris was one of the innovators of the international studio glass movement and transformed 20thC glass and its[…]
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Art Deco: Celebrating the Centenary of the 1925 Paris Expo by Pamela Campbell-Johnston – 1st May 2025
In 1925, 16 million visitors witnessed PARIS’S EXPO – The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. What would[…]
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160 Years of the London Underground, Design and Architecture by Mark Ovenden – 3rd April 2025
Even in the 1860s and 70s, the expansion of the Underground created a need to have some cohesion between the[…]
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The History of the Royal Parks by Paul Rabbitts – 9th January 2025
Londons’ Royal Parks are beautiful spaces with a grand history, some royally owned as far back as the Norman Conquest,[…]
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The Art of Courtship in Renaissance Italy by Lydia Goodson – 6th February 2025
“I give you this, my beautiful one, as a token of my love” These words featured on a decorated cup[…]
Read moreThe Influence of Japanese Woodcut on Western Art by Carol Wilhide-Justin – 6th November 2025
When Japan’s borders were opened to the West in 1868 there was a huge surge of interest in all things Japanese[…]
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A Very Ceremonial Christmas by Graham Jones – 4th December 2025
This very light-hearted lecture, looks at the various ceremonial events that take place around Christmas time. Carol services, concerts and[…]
Read moreALL Members Coffee Morning on Wednesday 17th April from 10-11.30a.m in Grayshott Village Hall
We are inviting ALL members to come for a relaxing “get together” of coffee and cake at our Coffee morning[…]
Read moreNew Members Coffee Morning – Friday 15th March from 10-11.30a.m in Grayshott Village Hall
Have you joined in the last two years? Then do come to our New Members Coffee morning which will take[…]
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Tour to Berlin – Thursday 19 – Monday 23 September 2024
Our 2024 tour will take us to the vibrant, varied and cosmopolitan city of Berlin. The past is still[…]
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Visit to Quebec House, Westerham and Titsey Place House and Gardens – Wednesday 15 May – TOUR CLOSED
QUEBEC HOUSE, Westerham In the morning we will arrive here in the centre of Westerham and have guided tours in[…]
Read moreCopies, Curtains and Ways of Looking by Chantal Brotherton – Ratcliffe – Thursday November 7 2024
How does our experience of living with and looking at works of art today compare to the viewing experience of[…]
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Dingley Dell to ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Vicky Bailey – Thursday December 5 2024
Ideal for Christmas time!This talk ranges from Dickensian Christmas stories to traditional Victorian Christmas activities and the inspiration for ghost[…]
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The Green man in English Churches by Imogen Corrigan – Thursday 3 October 2024
More correctly called ‘foliate heads’, there was a proliferation of Green Man images around the year 1400. The lecture discusses[…]
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London Bridged: 3,500 Years of Crossing the Thames by Charlie Forman – Thursday 5 September 2024
People were bridging the Thames in the Bronze Age – 1,500 years before the Romans built London Bridge. In the[…]
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