Monthly Meeting
Love & Sex in the Victorian Novels Dr David Grylls
Love & Sex in the Victorian Novels Dr David Grylls
One of our own Andy Carter Presents ‘Hanky Panky – A Music Tribute’. The early Shadows Hits (“with a bit of Cliff thrown in”) Including Andy playing his guitar to backing tracks he has recorded himself
PACKWOOD HOUSE ( NT) (Warwickshire) This is a 16th – century Tudor House, meticulously restored by a man seeking to create his dream Tudor home by erasing from the old house all traces of later Georgian and Victorian changes. Baron Ash, son of a wealthy industrialist, created a Great Hall out of a cowshed and … Read more
Electricity Electricity powers the modern world, providing a huge variety of major benefits for Humanity. And yet we take it for granted and very few of us know what electricity is or how it is generated. British scientists were responsible for much of the early study and understanding of electricity. This laid the foundations for … Read more
DYRHAM PARK (NT) Gloucestershire After a massive restoration programme, Dyrham Park offers visitors a multi-sensory experience which brings this great 17th– century house to life. Dyrham contains one of the best surviving Baroque interiors in the country. Your visit will give you a flavour of the late 1600s and show you some of the NT’s … Read more
Cinema Nigel Harris
These are an informal collection of gardens, including a large water garden, covering 7 acres, created in 1960 on the gravel soil and bogs of a disused fruit farm. They show examples of sustainable planting, based on Beth’s ethos of ‘right plant, right place’. If you know the soil conditions in your garden, you can … Read more
The Roles of a TV & Film Extra Rob Brewer Our speaker has been a TV/Film Extra for 6 years having been on over 40 different features. From Hollywood Blockbusters (Batman, Bond, Wonder Woman) low budget films (Blinded by the Light) to TV dramas, soaps and comedies and even a couple of adverts. He will … Read more
Batemans is a Jacobean house, bought in 1902 by Rudyard Kipling and his wife. They lived here until their deaths, and the rooms are just as they left them. The volunteer guides have a wealth of knowledge to share with you about the house and family. An Exhibition Room introduces Kipling and his work through … Read more
This well-known garden is a mixture of formal and informal areas and has many exotic species from around the world, especially from China, Chile, Argentina and South Africa. The Rose Garden has over 600 bushes and 115 varieties, while the South African Meadow is a mixture of grasses, herbaceous perennials, bulbs, daisies and annuals. Everywhere … Read more