Monthly Meeting


Event Details


21 years in the French Alps (Part 2)

Isobel Wilkinson (member) will present a talk relating to the French Alps to include what led them to settle there with a few

anecdotes. She will give a description of the Giffre Valley and the mediaeval market town of Samoens, and talk about the smuggling

over the mountain cols, the stonemasons who travelled worldwide to build cities, the little ramoneurs (child chimney sweeps) who

travelled to the big cities, and much more …

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