Visits & Guided Tours
Programme 2016
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Our members have the opportunity to
attend very reasonably priced guided
tours. These optional events happen
three or four times a year and include
visits to exhibitions, galleries,
museums, stately homes, gardens,
cathedrals and other places of interest.
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Wednesday 20th
April 2016 |
Private Visit To Petworth
House
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Just look at how the people are dwarfed by the sheer size of
PETWORTH HOUSE (Above) |
| This vast late 17th-century mansion is set in a beautiful 700-acre deer park, landscaped by 'Capability' Brown and immortalised in Turner's paintings. |
| The estate continues to be managed as a deer park but there is also a flower garden with a Doric temple and an Ionic rotunda. |
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Inside, the house contains the National Trust's finest collection of pictures, with numerous works by J.M.W. Turner, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Blake |
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13th to 17th
June 2016 |
Tour To Shropshire
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Click here to
for the tour brochure |
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19th September 2016 |
Private Visit To Chartwell
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THE HOUSE |
We will begin with a self guided visit around the house which takes 45minutes to an hour.
There are lots of volunteers to answer any questions. |
| The rooms remain much as they were when Sir Winston Churchill lived there, with pictures, books and personal mementos evoking the career and wide-ranging interests of this great statesman, writer, painter and family man. |
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| THE HILLSIDE GARDENS |
The gardens reflect Sir Winston’s love of the landscape and nature.
They include the lakes he created, the rose & kitchen garden and the Marycot (a playhouse designed for his youngest daughter Mary).
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THE STUDIO |
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We will see an array of Churchill’s
paintings in the studio. |
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Kitchen garden at Chartwell in
September |
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| Previous Year's Visits
& Guided Tours |
| To see previous year's activities,
click on the year:
2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010 |
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