Events Programme 2022 - 2023
2024
Visit to Ascott House and gardens
Tuesday 18 June
Ascott House is a National Trust property near Leighton Buzzard
Our schedule:
· Meet the coach mid-morning in Harpenden
· Arrive at Ascott House at 11.30 and explore the gardens
· Lunch at 1.00 consisting of quiche, salad, cake, tea or coffee
· 2.30 tour of the house
· 4.30 ish return to Harpenden
Price: National Trust members £30, non-National Trust members £48.00
(these prices are provisional depending on the number of people who
sign up)
Ascott House is the historic rural retreat of the de Rothschild
family. Ascott houses an excellent assortment of artworks, fine
furnishings and oriental porcelain. The 30-acre gardens have
dramatic landscaping and sweeping lawns. The gardens are a blend of
the formal and characteristic with specimen trees, bushes and
herbaceous borders.
Trip to Devon 22nd - 25th September 2024
More details about this proposed trip and possible visits:
3 nights at Livermead Cliff Hotel. £549 per person sharing plus a
supplement of £30 for single. Travel, dinner, bed and breakfast and
all entry fees included.
Outline itinerary:
Sun 22 ; depart, break journey at Wells.
Mon23 : am Powderham Castle , Lunch Torquay harbour, pm Torre
Abbey (other possibilities: Buckfast Abbey, Kents Cavern,
Paignton Model Village, house of Marbles)
Tues 24: “Round Robin” Tour consisting of boat trip at 10.30 from
Totnes to Dartmouth (2 hrs), then Ferry to Kingswear , and 14.45
Steam train back to Paignton.
Wed 25: return to Harpenden, visiting possibly Malmesbury (Abbey)
or Tewkesbury
The River
Dart at Totnes
Reports on previous events
- 2023
- Visit to Chiswick House & Gardens
- 2 Cities Visit
- Visit to the Cezanne Exhibition at the Tate Modern
- 2022
- Visit to the Middle Temple
- Trip to Rochester & Chatham Dockyard
- 2021
- South Wales Tour 9-12th October 2021
- Virtual Tour of the Villa Borghese
- Virtual Tour of the Colosseum
- Street Art in Shoreditch - Zoom Walk February 2021
- Marvellous Marylebone - Zoom walk January 2021
- 2019
- Visit to the Armourers' Hall and the IT Hall September 2019
- Visit to Knole Park June 2019
- Visit to the Van Gogh and Britain Exhibition at Tate Britain April 2019
- Visit to Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising and Leighton House March 2019
- 2018
- Trip to Upton House June 2018
- Trip to Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight April 2018
- Visit to Tate Modern’s Picasso 1932 Exhibition March 2018
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