We shall meet at 11:15 prompt at KESR Tenterden train station. 20 places are available and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis to FCOA members and spouses/partners only. If space allows nearer the day, non-FCOA members may be eligible, but please check with Tim Handley first. The price includes return steam train to Bodiam (23 […]
This year’s annual lecture will be delivered on Friday 19 October by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC, Chancellor of the Australian National University and a former foreign minister of Australia. The subject of the lecture will be “Global Geopolitics in Transition”. Tickets will cost £20, to include a sandwich and a glass of wine. The lecture […]
(With thanks to FCOA member Valerie Robinson for suggesting this visit; suggestions for other visits are always welcome.) The visit will start at 11.30 am prompt; meet at the museum entrance. Britain’s relationship with the Gurkhas can be said to date from the war of 1815 between Britain and Nepal (surprisingly) which led to the […]
Nick Morrison, a Blue Badge guide, who has in the past taken us on two walks, has agreed to show a party around St James’s with particular reference to the glittering and turbulent era - 1789-1914 - in which St James’s housed great aristocrats, collectors, musicians, writers, parvenus and even revolutionaries, who were lionised and […]
By kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, the Purcell Club will take us on a tour of the Abbey. The Purcell Club is named after Henry Purcell, who was organist of the Abbey from 1679-1695. It is a male voice choir formed predominantly from members of the Westminster Abbey Old Choristers’ Association. […]
Date: Thursday 30 May at 12:00 Prompt Places available: 30, allocated on a first-come-first-served basis Price per person: £15 per person, includes entry to and a guided tour of Compton Verney Detail: FCOA colleagues Peter Gregory Hood and Belinda McMicking have very kindly offered to host a visit to Loxley Hall, including lunch on the […]
Date: 13 June 2019 at 12:00 Prompt. Places available: 25 Allocated on a first-come-first-served basis Price per person: £43 - includes entry to both venues, free tasting of 5 wines , and a cheese and charcuterie board lunch. Description: The Mount Vineyard, Shoreham, began producing wine in 2004. With 5 varieties of white, and […]
David Thompson, who previously took us on an excellent tour of the Wren Churches, will give us a brief history of the Mansion House but this is essentially a visit to see the Harold Samuel Collection of Dutch & Flemish 17 th century paintings, bequeathed to the City of London in 1987. The collection of […]
Since before the Romans methods of extracting salt had been discovered and the importance of salt was well established. As well as dealing in salt, Salters were experts in the dry salting of fish and meat and also dealt with flax, hemp, logwood, cochineal, potashes and chemical preparations. The modern day association of the Salters’ […]
The connoisseur tour of Turner’s House has been arranged for 3 July with the first tour at 10.30 and the second at 11.30. We will be taken round by Catherine Parry-Wingfield who was instrumental in setting up the Trust to open the Lodge to visitors. Sandycombe Lodge is a Grade II* listed house. It was […]
