Events

The Marble Hill Society Programme 2008 - 9

 

Thursday 1 May Visit to Chiswick House Garden and guided tour by Martin Clayton (English Heritage) and Jeremy Ashbee, Historian and English Heritage Head Properties Curator.  Meet at the front of Chiswick House at 2.30 pm.  To apply for tickets please see the tear-off slip at the end of this Newsletter.

 

Sunday 15 June at 7.30 pm Summer Party.  The entertainment will be an illustrated talk by Jeremy Barlow about John Gay and “The Beggar’s Opera”.  www.jeremybarlow.co.uk   To apply for tickets please see the tear-off slip at the end of the Newsletter.

 

Saturday 20 September  Open House weekend

 

Sunday 21 September  Open House weekend and Marble Hill Society Book Sale

 

Monday 22 September  Marble Hill Society Annual General Meeting followed by  ‘Cheese and Wine’.

 

Sunday 2 November  Keith Hathaway will give a talk on 18th century tea drinking.  More details to be announced.

 

2009

 

Sunday 18 January  7.30 pm Winter Party.  Entertainment to be announced.

 

Wednesday 25 March evening.  18th century textiles and their conservation and restoration.  Alex Seth-Smith who works at the Textile Conservancy at Cranbrook in Kent has agreed to give us an illustrated talk.  She is a freelance conservationist who will restore the Northey Chair when there are funds.