Programme of Meetings

Date

Subject

Speaker

 

PROGRAMME 2011

 

February 18th

A RAMBLE THROUGH THE VICTORIAN WEALD

Mr P Gillies

March 25th

ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY?

Dr Sheila Innes

April 15th

WILD TIMES IN THE WILDERNESS

Mrs D Taylor

May 6th

NEW WINCHELSEA ANECDOTES

Mr M Pratt

June 3rd

AGM followed by a meal at the Foresters

 

June / July

WALK IN THE BUTTERFLY RESERVE

Led by David Bradford 

September 2nd

UDYARD KIPLING & BATEMANS

Mrs H.V.O. Woodward

October 14th

HISTORY OF WAKEHURST PLACE

John Withall

November 25th

Social Evening in the Village Hall

 

 

PROGRAMME 2010

 

February 19th

The Workhouse 1905 - 1926

Mrs J Kinnison Bourke MA

March 19th

Sussex Landscape

Geoffrey Mead

April 16th

Lewes Priory – the site and its people

Mrs H E Poole

May 21st

Sussex Wildlife in Closeup

David Bradford

June 4th

AGM and dinner

 

July 31st

Outing to Bolebroke Castle, Hartfield

 

September 17th

Sussex Customs and ways

Mrs Barbara Cornwell

October 15th

Unexplained Mysteries and Coverups

Andy Thomas

November 26th

Exhibition and Social Evening in the Village Hall

 

 

 

PROGRAMME 2009

 

February 24th

Porridge and Prisons

Michaela Winn-Jones

March 20th

Roman Sussex

Charles Harding

April 17th

Shops in Lewes

Tim Fogden

May 22nd

Street Furniture

Glenda Law

June 5th

AGM and Dinner

 

July 9th

Outing to Hampton Court Flower Show with Show Society

 

July 25th

Field Walk to Middle Wood, Waldron

 

September 25th

Ashburnham Estate

Ian Rumley-Dawson

October 23rd

Sussex Wildlife

Alan Malpass

November 20th

Exhibition and Social Evening in the Village Hall

 

 

PROGRAMME 2008

 

March 14th

Saxon Sussex

Peter Brandon

April 12th

Walk in Moat Wood

Keith Pettit

April 18th

Secret Sussex Resistance

Stewart Angell

May 30th

Bygone Days of the Great Ocean Liners

Mark Perry-Nash

June 6th

AGM and Dinner

 

July 24th

Outing to Weald & Downland Museum Singleton

 

September 19th

Lee Miller & Picasso

Tony Penrose

October 24th

Prehistoric Sussex

Charles Harding

November 21st

All Our Yesterdays II

Senior Residents of three villages.

 

 

PROGRAMME 2007

 

February 23rd

A History of  Woodlands in the Weald

David Brown

March 23rd

Crimes & Criminals of Sussex 1800 – 1840

J Johnson

April 20th

A History of Winchelsea

Malcolm Pratt

*April 28th

A walk in a local wood

David Brown

May 25th

The World of Thomas Turner

David Burrell

*June 1st

AGM and Dinner

 

*August 25th

Outing to Winchelsea

 

September 28th

A talk on Bats, Specimens provided

Jenny Clark

*October 19th

Death or Dinner – Fungi Foray

Anne Yarrow

October 19th

Walsingham & the Dissolution of the Monasteries

R McKenna

November 23rd

Exhibition of Photographs etc. relating to local history

 

 

 

PROGRAMME 2006

 

January 20th

Living History – All Our Yesterdays

Senior Village Residents

February 24th

The 17th Century Pelhams

David J Burrell

March 17th

London Parks & Squares

Christopher Rudd

April 21st

The Crop Circle Mystery

Andy Thomas

*April 29th

Bluebell Walk

Desmond Gunner

*May 26th

Knole Park

Mrs M Biron

*June 2nd

AGM and Dinner

 

*July 26th

Outing to Knole Park

 

October 27th

Sussex Women – Digging History

Sharon Benz

November 17th

Sussex Meander

Alan Malpass

 

 

PROGRAMME 2005

 

February 18th

The Duke of Newcastle & Halland House

David J Burrell

March 11th

A History of The Gate House

Jonathan Walker

April 8th

A History of Sussex Agriculture

Geoffrey Mead

May 20th

Rural Sussex

Barbara Cornwell

*May 28th

Guided Walk around West Hoathly

 

*June 3rd

AGM and Dinner

 

*July 23rd

Outing to Michelham Priory

 

October 21st

“What Trees do for us”

Desmond Gunner

November 11th

Sussex Characters

Chris McCooey

 

 

PROGRAMME FOR 2004

 

February 13th

 A talk on Badgers

Geoff Hayden

March 26th

“A Regency Coachmaker”

John Ford

April 23rd

 Wildlife of East Sussex

Ian Rumley-Dawson

May 21st

A talk on Titsey Place

Mrs L Burnett

*June 4th

AGM & Dinner

 

*June 26th

Guided Walk

 

*July 24th

Outing to Titsey Place

 

October 22nd

The Lives of Lee Miller (Film)

Tony Penrose

November 19th

“A Green and Pleasant land”

Barbara Cornwell

 

PROGRAMME 2003

 

February 21st

Sussex Women – Saints & Sinners

Sharon Benz

March 21st

A Bright Blue Sky for a Ceiling

Tony Penrose

*April 25th

A History of Chiddingly Church (in the Church)

José Loosemore

May 16th

The Bloomsbury Set

Lilian Roberts

*June 13th

AGM and Dinner

 

*July 18th

Visit to Charleston Farmhouse

 

October 17th

A talk on Fungi

Stuart Colegate

*October 25th

Fungi Foray

Stuart Colegate

November 21st

Farm Diversification – Re-use of Farm Buildings

Jeremy Courtney