OUTINGS AND EVENTS NEWS – APRIL 2017
Salisbury & District
U3A – www.u3a-salisbury.org.uk
SUDELEY CASTLE and
GARDENS
Thursday 17th
August 2017 – Booking Now
Located
in the heart of the Cotswolds, Sudeley Castle and
Gardens has played an important role in England’s history for over 1,000
years. The castle rooms and
exhibits contain treasures from Roman times to the present day. Outside, the
castle is surrounded by a breathtaking 1,200 acre estate and ten award-winning gardens. The
centrepiece is the Queens Garden because four of England’s queens – Anne
Boleyn, Katherine Parr, Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth I – once walked on the
original Tudor Parterre. The Pheasantry at Sudeley houses a collection of 16
rare and endangered species of birds from around the world as part of
their programme of breeding and
conservation. Sudeley is also the only private castle in England to have a
queen buried within its grounds: Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VIII’s six
wives lies in the beautiful 15th century chapel of St Mary.
Tudor
history at Sudeley is rich – following the Wars of the Roses (1455-87), Henry
VII granted the castle to his uncle, Jasper Tudor, who held it until his death
in 1495 when, as he left no children, it reverted back to the monarch and
became one of Henry VIII’s royal residences when he ascended the throne in
1509. He and Anne Boleyn visited in July 1535 when he met with Thomas Cromwell
at Winchcombe Abbey to plan the dissolution of the monasteries, and Anne
investigated the relic of Holy blood at nearby Hailes Abbey. Following Henry VIII’s death in 1547 Sudeley
passed to his son, Edward VI, who granted it to his uncle, Thomas Seymour.
Thomas married Katherine Parr (Henry VIII’s 6th wife and widow) and moved into
the castle with their ward, Lady Jane Grey. Charles I found refuge here during
the Civil War (1642-46) when his nephew Prince Rupert established headquarters
at the Castle. Following its ‘slighting’ on Cromwell’s orders at the end of the
Civil War, Sudeley lay derelict for
nearly 200 years. George III visited to
admire its ruins. In 1837 Sudeley was rescued by the wealthy Worcester
glove-makers, brothers John and William Dent, who began an ambitious
restoration continued by their nephew, John Coucher Dent, when he inherited the
castle in 1855. Sudeley is now the home of Elizabeth, Lady Ashcombe and her
son, daughter and their families who are committed to the continued
preservation of the castle, its treasures and the ongoing restoration and
regeneration of the gardens.
Exhibitions
include The Six Wives Exhibition in the 15th century West Wing which houses
replica Tudor costumes from David Starkey’s TV series The Six Wives of Henry
VIII. The Katherine Parr Exhibition
showcases rare copies of original books written by Katherine Parr, the first
queen to have her work published. The exhibition also features her love letters
to Thomas Seymour and the eye-witness account of the discovery of her body at
Sudeley in 1782. These, together with items from her tomb, help to illustrate
David Starkey’s film The Life and Loves of Katherine Parr, Queen of England
and Mistress of Sudeley, which is shown alongside the exhibition. A special Tudor Physic Garden, part of the
new Herb Garden Walk, has been developed to reflect the vast knowledge of
herbal healing from many cultures over thousands of years as interest in
natural remedies increases.
Cost:
£28 (£16.50 to HHA members) to include entry, coach and driver's
gratuity. Add £10 for an art tour
(limited to the first 10 people to apply and unsuitable for those with mobility
difficulties) to view paintings by artists such as Van Dyck and Rubens amongst
others from the family’s private collection from 2:30-4pm or £5 for a garden
tour (limited to the first 20 people to apply) from 2-3:30pm.
Coach Pickups: 8am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR 8:15am at Salisbury Millstream Coach Park OR 8:30am at London Road Park and Ride. There will be a comfort stop en route. Our Grosvenor/Taylor's Coach will leave Sudeley at 4:30pm.
WADDESDON MANOR and
CLAYDON HOUSE
Wednesday 26th
July 2017 – Booking Now
Waddesdon Manor, in the
Aylesbury Vale, was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of Loire Valley châteaux
between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898) as a
weekend residence for grand entertaining.
The Manor embodies an eclectic style:
the towers are based on those of the Château de Maintenon, and the twin
staircase towers, on the north facade, although inspired by the staircase tower
at the Château de Chambord, also featured the then unparalleled luxury of being
glazed and ornate. The structural design
of Waddesdon was not all retrospective however. Hidden from view were the most
modern innovations of the late 19th century including a steel frame, which took
the strain of walls on the upper floors, to permit the layout of these floors
to differ completely from the lower floors. The house also had hot and cold
running water in its bathrooms, central heating, and an electric bell system to
summon the numerous servants.
Once his château was complete, Baron Ferdinand installed
his extensive collections of French 18th century boiseries,
Savonnerie carpets, Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries, furniture, Sèvres
ceramics, and books, as well as English and Dutch paintings and Renaissance
treasures. Works were acquired for their exquisite quality and fine provenance.
One of the highlights of the collection is the extraordinary musical automaton
elephant, dating from 1774 and made by the French clockmaker H Martinet. Of the
ten surviving examples of the Sèvres pot-pourri vase in the shape of a ship
from the 1760s, three are at Waddesdon, including one with a very rare scene of
a battle connected to the Seven Years' War. Other collections include Limoges
enamel, arms and armour, maiolica, medieval manuscripts, prints and
drawings. The Grade I listed gardens and
landscape park were laid out by the French landscape architect Elie Lainé and
statuary, pavilions and an aviary added. The Proserpina fountain was brought to
the Manor at the end of the 19th century from the Palace of the Dukes of Parma
in northern Italy: the Ducal Palace of Colorno.
James de Rothschild (1878–1957) bequeathed the house and its contents to the
National Trust and it is now administered by a Rothschild charitable trust
overseen by Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild.
Claydon House looks fairly
ordinary from the outside, a pretty but plain, classical box. Step inside, though, and you are in one of
Britain's greatest interiors. Claydon
was designed in 1757 for the Verney family by Luke Lightfoot, a genius carver
of the rococo style: the light, frothy,
curvy designs that swept across Europe in the late 18th
century. This is fantasy architecture
featuring birds, leaves, lions' heads, all carved with twirling joy by
Lightfoot. He also designed a heavenly
Chinese Room, crammed with bells, pagodas and a Chinese tea ceremony room. On show too is Florence Nightingale's
bedroom; she was a relation of the Verneys.
Coach Pick Ups: 7:45am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR 8am
at Salisbury Millstream Car Park OR 8:15 am at London Road Park and Ride. We will have a comfort/coffee stop en route
and arrive as Waddesdon Manor opens at 11am.
We will leave Waddesdon at 2pm to travel to Claydon House. Our Grosvenor/Taylor's Coach will depart
Claydon at 4:30pm for Salisbury.
Cost: £24 to National
Trust members to include coach, driver gratuity, and entry to both properties
and gardens. If you are not a
National Trust member you will need to pay entry on arrival at each
property.
THE WATTS GALLERY –
ARTISTS' VILLAGE
and LOSELEY HOUSE
& GARDENS
NEW DATE – Tuesday 20th
June 2017 – Booking Now
Watts
Gallery - Artists' Village,
a unique Arts & Crafts gem nestled in the Surrey Hills, invites you to
engage with history and art at the newly opened Watts Studios, and to discover
the permanent collection of Victorian paintings and sculpture in Watts Gallery
before visiting the De Morgan Collection, on long term loan to the Artists'
Village. Founded in 1904 as the only
gallery in the UK devoted to a single artist, Watts Gallery offers a unique
insight into the life and work of George Frederic Watts OM RA (1817–1904) and
his Scottish wife, the designer and artist Mary Watts. Widely considered to be
the greatest painter of the Victorian era, GF Watts was a portraitist,
sculptor, landscape painter and symbolist, whose work embodied the most
pressing themes and ideas of the time, earning him the title England's
Michelangelo. The Artists' Village
carries on the Wattses' legacy of Art for All with its historic and
contemporary galleries, working Artist in Residence, conservation studios, and
an extensive learning programme. You may also like to enjoy a quiet moment at
Grade I listed Watts Chapel and explore the woodlands and grounds before
browsing art for sale in the Contemporary Gallery, along with a wide selection
of gifts with 10% off for our group in the Watts Shop. Please wear comfortable shoes as there is
a 10 minute uphill walk to Limnerlease and Watts Studios, a 10 minute walk to
the Chapel, and no wheelchair access.
Loseley
House was built
in the 16th century by Sir William More from honey-coloured stone
reclaimed from the Cistercian Abbey of Waverley at Farnham and is still
occupied by the More-Molyneux family. Features of the House include the Great
Hall containing George IV’s coronation chair, panels carved for Henry VIII’s
banqueting tents, and work by Grinling Gibbons, England’s finest ever
woodcarver. The Drawing Room ceiling was commissioned for a visit by James I,
the fireplace, carved from a single monumental block of chalk, is to a design
by Holbein, the cushions on the maid of honour chairs are reputed to have been
worked by Queen Elizabeth I, and the perfectly preserved 16c Wrangelschrank
cabinet is inlaid with pear wood, pine wood, rosewood, beech and sycamore. The hand carved bed and pelmet in Sir More’s
room depicts a boar hunt. Five centuries
of portraits document the More-Molyneux family.
The 2.5 acre Walled Garden is divided into rooms including the
main reason for our visit, the Rose garden with over one thousand Old English
Rose bushes which should be in full bloom and scent, the Flower Garden, and the
serene White Garden that contrasts spectacular, showy, blooms with lush yet
subtle silver and grey foliage. As well,
there is the Herb Garden, the Organic Vegetable Garden planted with unusual
varieties, the Kitchen Garden which houses Loseley's collection of Garden
Organic Heritage Seed Library plants and, just outside the walls, the Wild
Flower Meadow.
I am advised the public tea rooms at both locations are
small and can get congested with long, slow queues at busy times so I am
offering options for reserved morning tea/coffee and biscuits and a
buffet lunch at Watts Gallery, and afternoon tea at Loseley to avoid the crowds. You are, of course, very welcome to bring a
picnic and/or to take your chances in the tea rooms if you prefer to purchase
your own food or drinks.
Cost:
£30 (£21 with National Art Pass or £21.50 with HHA membership or £12
with both National Art Pass and HHA membership) to include coach, driver
gratuity, entry to both venues and a 45 minute tour of Loseley House at either 2:20 or 2:40pm (no free flow). Add £3 to include tea, coffee and biscuits in
the Old Kiln on arrival and/or £9 to include a 1pm Buffet Lunch at the Watts
Gallery (sandwich platter with fruit selection, crisps, home made cakes and
elderflower cordial or water) and/or £7.50 to include afternoon tea or coffee
and two fruit scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam at 4pm at Loseley.
Coach
Pickups: 8am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR 8:15am
at Salisbury Millstream Coach Park OR 8:30am at London Road Park and Ride. Our Grosvenor/Taylor's Coach will leave
Loseley House at 4:30pm.
WEST GREEN HOUSE
GARDENS and THE VYNE Thursday 11th May 2017 –
Booking Now
Our original trip to Sandham Memorial Chapel has been cancelled as they couldn't accommodate us until very late in the afternoon. As there is no electricity in the Chapel, the paintings would have been hard to see and we would have been home very late. I will try to organise a future visit.
West Green House Gardens, created by acclaimed garden designer and writer Marylyn Abbott, is one of England’s finest manor house gardens, marrying neoclassical style with contemporary design. Home to the West Green House Opera Season, it has been featured in The Telegraph's Best Walled Gardens to Visit, and seen on BBC2's Gardeners' World and Best Bakes Ever. The Gardens offer four seasons of beauty, contrast and inspiration with a special and distinctive sense of place, as well as a touch of humour. A grand water staircase provides a focal point to the Nymphaeum Fountain designed by architect Quinlan Terry. The magnificent Walled Garden, faithfully restored to its original lines, is entered through an arbour of wisteria. An allée of apple trees divides the elaborate potager featuring fruit cages, annuals and vegetables from the signature perennial borders. Beyond the walls the Lakefield is carpeted in spring with fritillaries and daffodils and embraces one of England’s most eclectic collections of garden follies. A path leads from the serenity of the lake to the Paradise Water Garden and contemporary Garden of the Five Bridges with a serpentine ribbon of Iris Sibirica crossed by chinoiserie inspired bridges. It meanders on through a woodland glade to the terraced Theatre Lawn surrounded by tall tapestry hedges.
The Vyne was built between 1500 and 1520 for Lord Chamberlain William Sandys, one of Henry VIII’s most trusted courtiers. It is an E-plan house of diapered red brick with stone dressings bought in 1653 by a successful barrister, Chaloner Chute, who commissioned alterations including a classical portico by Inigo Jones' pupil John Webb to the north front – one of the earliest for an English country house. Further changes were carried out from 1770 by Chaloner’s great-grandson John, including a remarkably dramatic classical Palladian staircase. There is a Tudor chapel with important contemporary stained glass (bring your binoculars to see the detail) and encaustic tiles (1512) from the Antwerp workshop of Guido de Savino, and fine linenfold panelling in the Oak Gallery, carved with badges and devices. There is a Gothick ante-chapel containing the tomb of Speaker Chute and a suite of drawing rooms with Rococo ceilings and Italian damask hangings. The Vyne holds an inscribed Roman ring as well as a lead tablet that speaks of a curse on the one who stole it. JRR Tolkien was asked to comment on it as an expert on Anglo-Saxon history, including its connection to a mine fabled to have been dug by dwarves, and a few days after began writing Lord of the Rings. The grounds contain large woodland and a wetlands nesting site which is populated by swans and common redshanks. There are woodland, wetland and parkland walking trails.
Cost: £11.50 to include coach and driver gratuity. National Trust Members enter both properties free. Non National Trust Members will need to pay entrance at each property. Coach Pick Ups: 8am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR 8:15am at Salisbury Millstream Car Park OR 8:30am at London Road Park and Ride OR 9am at Amesbury at the bus stop by the car park opposite the library. We will leave The Vyne at 4:30pm.
THE WALLACE COLLECTION
Thursday 13th April 2017 – Booking Now
The Wallace Collection is a national museum which displays works of art collected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the son of the 4th Marquess. It was bequeathed to the British nation by Sir Richard's widow, Lady Wallace, in 1897. Displayed at Hertford House, one of the family's London properties in the nineteenth century, the Wallace Collection presents its outstanding collections in a sumptuous, but approachable manner which is an essential part of its charm.
In every category of art represented in the Wallace Collection's twenty-five galleries there are works of the highest quality and historical significance. It is probably best known for over seven hundred paintings and drawings by artists such as Titian, Rembrandt, Hals (The Laughing Cavalier) and Velázquez, and for its superb collections of 18th century French paintings, porcelain, and over five hundred pieces of unique furniture, probably the best to be found anywhere outside France. Perhaps less well known is that the Wallace Collection features one of the finest groups of over two thousand princely arms and armour from Europe and Asia and splendid medieval and Renaissance objects, including Limoges enamels, maiolica, glass and bronzes. Sculptures number over four hundred, and the miniatures more than three hundred. There are also hundreds of medieval and renaissance time period artworks as well as impressive works by goldsmiths.
From beautiful jewellery to Sèvres picnic plates, the shop features a wide selection of gifts, many especially commissioned, as well as some of the best art publications. The shop stocks guidebooks and an exciting range of publications on the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions.
During our visit the courtyard restaurant will be occupied by Sky Arts filming their Artist of the Year series so you'll need to go out of the museum to purchase food or drinks. As the Collection is conveniently located in Central London just a few minutes walk from Oxford Street, Baker Street and Marylebone Village, there are lots of popular restaurants and coffee shops nearby.
Free guides and floor plans (including large print), a choice of audio guides for £4, wheelchairs, magnifying glasses, torches, and badges for free entry to the one-hour Highlights tour at 2:30pm are all available from the Public Information Desk. A What's On Today information screen is also worth a look. A cloakroom is available to check your coats, bags and umbrellas, and/or to collect a gallery stool. There is access for wheelchair users to all public areas, including the galleries, library, education studio and lecture theatre. There is a lift to all three floors. Public toilets are on the lower ground floor under the restaurant.
Cost: £14 to include coach and driver's gratuity. Entry to The Wallace Collection is free.
Coach Pickups: 7am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR 7:15am at Salisbury Millstream Car Park OR 7:30am at London Road Park & Ride OR 8am at Amesbury at the bus stop by the car park opposite the library. Our Grosvenor/Taylor's coach will stop at Fleet for a comfort stop, arrive around 11am at the Wallace Collection and leave there at 4:30pm to return to Salisbury.
PAYMENTS, REFUNDS AND RECEIPTS FOR OUTINGS
From 10am At Meetings: Cash or cheques payable to Salisbury U3A. One cheque can cover as many people as you like, separate cheques for each outing please.
By Post: If you can't attend the monthly meeting or prefer to book by post, please email Margaret for a booking form. Otherwise, please post your cheque with destination, your name, home and mobile phone numbers and pick up point on the reverse to Margaret Vacha, 1 Grasmere Close, Salisbury SP2 8DG.
Cancellations/Refunds: Full refund if cancelled more than one month before the outing. Cancellations less than a month before a trip are only refunded if we have a waiting list and can resell your place.
Refunds: If you are due a refund, may I ask please that you do not deduct refunds from payments for other trips. I will pay out refunds in cash or by cheque separately. Accounting for each trip is so much easier if there is no cross-over in payments or refunds between outings.
Receipts: No receipts or tickets are issued for Salisbury U3A trips. I do acknowledge all postal bookings by email or phone call.
Personal Record: May I respectfully ask that you keep a diary note of your coach pick up point and time, that you have paid, and what you have paid for please.
Reserves: Reserving outings in advance is no longer possible. Outings can only be booked with a full payment and, if you can, a booking slip or a note giving all your contact details and coach pick up point.
In every category of art represented in the Wallace Collection's twenty-five galleries there are works of the highest quality and historical significance. It is probably best known for over seven hundred paintings and drawings by artists such as Titian, Rembrandt, Hals (The Laughing Cavalier) and Velázquez, and for its superb collections of 18th century French paintings, porcelain, and over five hundred pieces of unique furniture, probably the best to be found anywhere outside France. Perhaps less well known is that the Wallace Collection features one of the finest groups of over two thousand princely arms and armour from Europe and Asia and splendid medieval and Renaissance objects, including Limoges enamels, maiolica, glass and bronzes. Sculptures number over four hundred, and the miniatures more than three hundred. There are also hundreds of medieval and renaissance time period artworks as well as impressive works by goldsmiths.
From beautiful jewellery to Sèvres picnic plates, the shop features a wide selection of gifts, many especially commissioned, as well as some of the best art publications. The shop stocks guidebooks and an exciting range of publications on the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions.
During our visit the courtyard restaurant will be occupied by Sky Arts filming their Artist of the Year series so you'll need to go out of the museum to purchase food or drinks. As the Collection is conveniently located in Central London just a few minutes walk from Oxford Street, Baker Street and Marylebone Village, there are lots of popular restaurants and coffee shops nearby.
Free guides and floor plans (including large print), a choice of audio guides for £4, wheelchairs, magnifying glasses, torches, and badges for free entry to the one-hour Highlights tour at 2:30pm are all available from the Public Information Desk. A What's On Today information screen is also worth a look. A cloakroom is available to check your coats, bags and umbrellas, and/or to collect a gallery stool. There is access for wheelchair users to all public areas, including the galleries, library, education studio and lecture theatre. There is a lift to all three floors. Public toilets are on the lower ground floor under the restaurant.
Cost: £14 to include coach and driver's gratuity. Entry to The Wallace Collection is free.
Coach Pickups: 7am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR 7:15am at Salisbury Millstream Car Park OR 7:30am at London Road Park & Ride OR 8am at Amesbury at the bus stop by the car park opposite the library. Our Grosvenor/Taylor's coach will stop at Fleet for a comfort stop, arrive around 11am at the Wallace Collection and leave there at 4:30pm to return to Salisbury.
PAYMENTS, REFUNDS AND RECEIPTS FOR OUTINGS
From 10am At Meetings: Cash or cheques payable to Salisbury U3A. One cheque can cover as many people as you like, separate cheques for each outing please.
By Post: If you can't attend the monthly meeting or prefer to book by post, please email Margaret for a booking form. Otherwise, please post your cheque with destination, your name, home and mobile phone numbers and pick up point on the reverse to Margaret Vacha, 1 Grasmere Close, Salisbury SP2 8DG.
Cancellations/Refunds: Full refund if cancelled more than one month before the outing. Cancellations less than a month before a trip are only refunded if we have a waiting list and can resell your place.
Refunds: If you are due a refund, may I ask please that you do not deduct refunds from payments for other trips. I will pay out refunds in cash or by cheque separately. Accounting for each trip is so much easier if there is no cross-over in payments or refunds between outings.
Receipts: No receipts or tickets are issued for Salisbury U3A trips. I do acknowledge all postal bookings by email or phone call.
Personal Record: May I respectfully ask that you keep a diary note of your coach pick up point and time, that you have paid, and what you have paid for please.
Reserves: Reserving outings in advance is no longer possible. Outings can only be booked with a full payment and, if you can, a booking slip or a note giving all your contact details and coach pick up point.
Any questions, or to cancel your place, or to change your pick-up point after booking:
Please contact Margaret at margaretvacha@hotmail.com or 01722 335586 or 07845 870512
Please contact Margaret at margaretvacha@hotmail.com or 01722 335586 or 07845 870512
SOME EXTRA TRIPS AND
EVENTS
FROM OTHER LOCAL GROUPS
Our goal is to offer as much to as many people as
possible. If your organisation, group or society are offering a trip or study day or event and you
would like to fill your coach or boost your attendance,
we are very happy to
advertise your outing to our members.
WATERCRESS LINE and
JANE AUSTEN'S HOUSE MUSEUM
Saturday 8th April
2017
Our local
National Trust invites you to join them for a day out to celebrate the
bi-centenary of Jane Austen. After a
ride on the Watercress Steam Railway from New Alresford to Alton, we will
rejoin the coach for the short journey to Chawton Village to visit Jane
Austen's House Museum - a feast of nostalgic memories. There will be time for
coffee in the railway café and lunch can be taken at Cassandra’s Cup tea rooms
(01420 83144) or The Greyfriar pub (01420 83841) in Chawton. Or you can bring a
picnic and eat in the garden, weather permitting. The visit to Jane Austen's
House is on a free flow basis with a limit of twenty four people in the house
at any one time, so we will have to proceed fairly slowly. The small Museum has
a film and the garden is delightful. Jane revised and wrote her novels here and
the story of her family and their life here is beautifully set out on the
ground floor and in the bedrooms. Please
note: Chawton House, the home of her
brother Edward, and St Nicholas Church are ten minutes’ walk away. Sadly,
Chawton House is not open on Saturdays.
The Leader for this outing is Shirley Reeves on 01722 501130. www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk
Please remember to bring your National Art Fund Pass on the day if you
have one.
Coach Pickups: 8:45am at Michael Herbert
Hall, Wilton OR 9:15am at Salisbury Millstream Coach Park. The return arrival time in Salisbury will be
about 5.45pm. Cost: £27.50 (local National Trust Member) or
£30.50 for non members or £24 (Local NT member and National Art Fund Member) or
£27 (non members who are National Art Fund Members) – Please send your cheque
payable to National Trust Salisbury and a SAE with your name,
address, landline, mobile, email address and choice of coach pick up to Mrs
Shirley Reeves, 10 Avon Terrace, Salisbury SP2 7BT.
SAVANNAH JAZZ BAND at SALISBURY JAZZ
CLUB
7pm for 8-11pm on
Friday 14th April 2017
People
from four counties and beyond meet every month in the Stockman's Lounge at the
Salisbury Auction Centre on Netherhampton Road, Salisbury SP2 8RH to dance or
just sit back and listen to live jazz and watch the dancers. Don't worry about coming alone as you
are very welcome to join our U3A table. Admission is £10 payable at the door and
student card holders pay £5. For more
information or to be put on the club's mailing list, you can contact Wendy
Lawrence on 01672 564241 or lawrence@jazz4us.fsnet.co.uk For a full list of bands appearing January to
June 2017, the Club's website is www.southwilts.com/site/salisbury-jazz-club
BLACK COUNTRY LIVING
MUSEUM
Wednesday 26th
April 2017
Sarum U3A
invite you to take a step back in time as we visit one of the UK’s largest open
air museums. Brick by brick, over 50
houses, shops, workshops and public buildings have been dismantled and rebuilt
to create an early 20th century village. Enjoy a trip on the tram to explore the canal
side village where you can meet and chat to the costumed characters. Experience the sights, sounds and tastes of
the past, from glass cutting to sweet making.
Coach
Pickup: 8am at London Road Park & Ride. We will leave the Black Country Living Museum
at 4pm and arrive back in Salisbury at approximately 7pm.
Cost: £33 to include coach
travel, driver gratuity, admission to The Museum and a short introductory
talk. The organiser is Angela King on
01980 622069 or 07826 613819 or kingangela.6@btinternet.com
Payment is by cheque only made payable to Sarum U3A Visits Account. No cash.
Please write Black Country Living Museum on the back of your
cheque and send it with your name, landline, mobile and email address to:
Angela King, 13 Beverley Hills Park, Boscombe Down, Amesbury, Wiltshire. SP4
7LH.
TEA DANCE
Friday 28th
April from 2-5pm
at the Banquesting Hall,
Salisbury Guildhall
with live music featuring Sandy Ince, ‘Sticky Toffee Jazz’
and John Challenger,
Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral
Entry donation
tickets: £10 (£8 to Friends)
Available from: Friends’
Office, 33a The Close, Salisbury – 01722 335161
or on the door In aid of
Friends of Salisbury Cathedral, Charity no: 243439
Home-made cakes, tea,
music & a good time – open to all ages – everyone welcome!
GUNWHARFE
QUAYS PORTSMOUTH
Wednesday
24th May 2017
Sarum
U3A invite you to enjoy a day out at Gunwharfe Quays, Portsmouth and visit The
Spinaker Tower, HMS Victory or the Mary Rose Exhibition, or you might like to
enjoy the retail shopping outlet with many restaurants to choose from, or how
about a boat trip around the harbour with views of naval ships, historic
buildings and fortifications.
Cost: £12 to include coach and
driver gratuity. Payment by cheque only
(no cash) made payable to Sarum U3A Visits Account. Please write your name, landline, mobile,
email and destination on the back of your cheque and send it to Angela King, 13
Beverley Hills Park, Boscombe Down, Amesbury SP4 7LH – 01980 622069.
Coach Pick Up: 9am at London Road Park
& Ride. The coach will leave
Gunwharfe Quays at 4pm and arrive back in Salisbury at about 6pm.
CREATING A WILLOW
SCULPTURE WITH CHARLOTTE MORETON
Saturday 17th
June from 10am to 4pm
Sarum U3A
invite you to a Study Day in Laverstock Village Hall when Charlotte will teach
us the techniques necessary to create a willow hare to take home. All materials are provided. Cost: £45 – Please send your cheque made payable to
Sarum U3A with your name, landline, mobile and email to Maureen Pardy,
35 Bishops Mead, Laverstock, Salisbury SP1 1RU – 01722 504295.
WINE TOUR TO MACON
AND BEAUJOLAIS
Saturday 23rd
September to Sunday 1st October
Sarum U3A
invite you to visit many vineyards to taste and maybe buy the wine, eat
delicious food and enjoy the Maconnais region.
Cost: £895 includes
all travel by executive coach, ferry crossing, 3*/4* hotel half board, all
excursions and entrances, and Andy our tour guide. To express interest, book or for further
information, please contact Maureen Pardy on 01722 504295
LAST
MONTH'S SALISBURY U3A OUTING
Your comments are always very welcome and
much appreciated!
SWINDON STEAM RAILWAY MUSEUM and/or UP TO 70% DISCOUNT
SHOPPING OUTLET and/or NATIONAL TRUST HEADQUARTERS and LYDIARD HOUSE, PARK and
GARDENS -- Thursday 9th
March 2017
We started
the day with a visit to the Steam Museum of the Great Western Railway. This,
together with the neighbouring large shopping mall are housed in the large old
GWR works. The route round the museum took us into a series of large halls,
each showing a function of the Works with large scale photographs, videos and a
few artefacts. The Foundry, Pattern Shop, Carriage Shop, Machine Shop and
Boiler Shop explained how the precise engineering was used in the construction
of the locomotives. We then had the chance to go round and under the Caerphilly
Castle to see a finished product. However my favourite was changing the signals
in a signal box. A good museum, though it seemed a bit bare of artefacts. Others spent a
successful time in the shopping mall, with a wide range of large chains and
smaller outlets. The cavernous spaces of the original Works set off the outlets
very well. Eleven of us had a delicious meal together at Carluccio's in the
Mall. In
the afternoon we travelled to Lydiard Park where we were shown around a few of
the rooms on the ground floor. Our very knowledgeable guide gave us a lot of
details about the history of the house and the rather unconventional history of
the family living there. It was too early for the Walled Garden to show many
flowers, but the teas were a welcome distraction. The church had a wealth of
historical features, including the original box pews and a beautiful colourful
west window. All in all a very good day. …Christine Hill
I've long
been aware of STEAM (the Great Western Railway museum) in Swindon, and have
been meaning to visit it ever since I moved to Salisbury several years ago.
Part of the reason for not doing so is that I've had to drive to Swindon a few
times, and don't enjoy it. So I jumped at the opportunity to visit with our
U3A. It's so much nicer when someone else does all the work for you. We duly arrived at the museum. Some members
of the group without an interest in railways went off to the designer outlet
next door, but (after a quick inspection of the vital facilities), I went
straight in to the museum. It occupies one of the workshops of the former
railway works. Visitors follow a specified route through, and there's little
scope for free wandering. However, the result is that you do get to see
everything. And very interesting it is, too. There are a number of TVs among
the initial displays running short loops of film of former works employees
describing their work, and these are fascinating.
On, then, to the bit I particularly wanted to see: the retired GWR locomotives. Two had special interest for me. There's a clean inspection pit under 4073 Caerphilly Castle which allows you to look up and see, for example, the driving cylinders and the tender's water scoop. The other was 6000 King George V. This has a special place in my heart because, about 45 years ago, it and 4472 Flying Scotsman double-headed a steam special on which I rode. After the museum, it was on to lunch at Carluccio's where a group of us ate together. Discovering a common interest in whisky with the gentleman seated to my right ensured no shortage of enjoyable conversation. After lunch, we went on to Lydiard Park. This was less to my taste, though more so to some people on the trip. It's a stately home with only a few overly-ornate (in my opinion) rooms open, and an awful lot of portraits on the walls. Ho hum. And the tea shop had NO FRUIT CAKE! Fortunately, I'd brought my Kindle and a bottle of water, and was happy to retreat to the coach for an hour or so's reading before departure. The book I read was Raw Spirit by Iain Banks. More about whisky - is there a theme developing here? (Actually, it's amusing even if you have no interest in the ostensible subject matter.) …Peter Trebilcock
On, then, to the bit I particularly wanted to see: the retired GWR locomotives. Two had special interest for me. There's a clean inspection pit under 4073 Caerphilly Castle which allows you to look up and see, for example, the driving cylinders and the tender's water scoop. The other was 6000 King George V. This has a special place in my heart because, about 45 years ago, it and 4472 Flying Scotsman double-headed a steam special on which I rode. After the museum, it was on to lunch at Carluccio's where a group of us ate together. Discovering a common interest in whisky with the gentleman seated to my right ensured no shortage of enjoyable conversation. After lunch, we went on to Lydiard Park. This was less to my taste, though more so to some people on the trip. It's a stately home with only a few overly-ornate (in my opinion) rooms open, and an awful lot of portraits on the walls. Ho hum. And the tea shop had NO FRUIT CAKE! Fortunately, I'd brought my Kindle and a bottle of water, and was happy to retreat to the coach for an hour or so's reading before departure. The book I read was Raw Spirit by Iain Banks. More about whisky - is there a theme developing here? (Actually, it's amusing even if you have no interest in the ostensible subject matter.) …Peter Trebilcock
Another
lovely, sunshine day out – so nice that we had afternoon tea outside. Sue and I had tea and cream cakes while Mick
was very pleased with his cheese scone, two big wedges of cheese, pickle, and a
mug of tea – all for less than £5! … Mick Chaplin, Sue Evans and Margaret
Vacha
SALISBURY TRUST FOR THE HOMELESS
AFTERNOON SHOWS
with TEA & CAKE
Wed 19 Apr: The History of the Smallest Room.
The Romans, castles, Hogarth, the pot, Hitler, Thames,
Bazalgette, Dick Whittington, Bronco, John Simpson, AA Milne, Edward Hopper
& more
Wed 3 May: Schooldays
Joyce Grenfell, uniform, dinners, reports, Eton, the Cane,
Lewis Carroll, Eric Morecombe, friends, the ABC, Laurie Lee, playground games
& more
Wed 28 Jun: The Brides in the Bath & Other Tales
Dick Turpin, bigamy, Spilsbury, poison, aliases, Broadmoor,
forensics, the trial, motive, an undelivered letter, hangings, fingerprints,
Epping & more
Wed 27 Sep: The 1940s
Vera Lynn, evacuees, Churchill, sirens, the London Olympics,
rationing, gas masks, bombsites, Lord Haw-Haw, shelters, doodlebugs & more
Wed 18 Oct: The Great Train Robbery
Ronnie Biggs, Leatherslade Farm, the gloved signal, the
Monopoly board, Scotland Yard, the sentencing, escapes & captures, plastic
surgery & more
Wed 29 Nov: All Things Banned & Censored
BBC, 'Psycho', George Formby, Jane Russell, adverts,
tombstones, Eartha Kitt, cricket, Lionel Bart, DH Lawrence, 'Hair', the Crazy
Gang & more
Wed 6 Dec: The 1950s
National Service, Doris Day, 'Housewives' Choice', ITV,
Korea, Bill Haley, Suez, Elvis Presley, 'Under Milkwood', Tom Lehrer, skiffle,
Goons & more
Each show bristling with music,
laughter, songs & facts
2.45
for 3pm: The Salvation Army Church, 16 Salt Lane SP1 1EE
£5
on entry. Gordon 01722 504295 for details or just turn up.
HAPPY
APRIL EVERYONE!
THE
WALLACE COLLECTION
Thursday
13th April 2017
Cost:
£14 to include coach travel and driver gratuity. Entry to The Wallace Collection is free.
Coach Pick
Ups: 7am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR
7:15am at Millstream Coach Park, Salisbury OR 7:30am at London Road Park & Ride OR
8am at Amesbury bus stop by the car park opposite the library.
NAME
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for £14 payable to Salisbury U3A to:
Margaret Vacha, 1 Grasmere Close, Salisbury SP2 8DG
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WEST GREEN HOUSE GARDENS and THE VYNE Thursday 11th
May 2017
Cost: £ 11.50 to include coach and driver's gratuity. National Trust members enter both properties
free with a valid membership card. Non
National Trust members will need to pay entrance fees at each property.
Coach Pick
Ups: 8am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR
8:15am at Millstream Coach Park, Salisbury OR 8:30am at London Road Park
& Ride OR 9am at Amesbury bus stop
by the car park opposite the library.
NAME
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COACH PICKUP
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Please
complete and return with your cheque for £ 11.50 payable to Salisbury U3A
to: Margaret
Vacha, 1 Grasmere Close, Salisbury SP2 8DG
Tuesday
20th June 2017
Cost –
Please tick ONE of the following and please add carefully before writing your
cheque:
꙱ £30 to include coach travel,
driver gratuity and entry to both venues plus a 45 minute tour of Loseley
House
꙱
£21 (with National Art Pass) to include coach
travel, driver gratuity and entry to both venues plus a 45 minute tour of Loseley House
꙱ £21.50 (with HHA Membership) to
include coach travel, driver gratuity and entry to both venues plus a 45
minute tour
of Loseley House
꙱ £12
(with National Art Pass and HHA Membership) to include coach travel, driver
gratuity and entry to both venues plus a 45 minute tour of Loseley House
PLUS any or all of the following
꙱ Add £3 for morning tea or
coffee and biscuits on arrival at the Watts Gallery
꙱ Add £9 for lunch (sandwich
platter with fruit selection, crisps, home made cakes and elderflower cordial
or water) at 1pm at the Watts Gallery
꙱ Add £7.50 for afternoon tea or
coffee and two fruit scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam at 4pm at Loseley House
Coach
Pick Ups: 8am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR
8:15am at Millstream Coach Park, Salisbury OR 8:30am at London Road Park & Ride.
NAME(S)
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LANDLINE
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MOBILE .........................................................................................
EMAIL
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COACH PICKUP
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Please complete and return with your cheque
payable to Salisbury U3A to:
Margaret Vacha, 1 Grasmere Close, Salisbury
SP2 8DG
WADDESDON
MANOR and CLAYDON HOUSE
Wednesday
26th July 2017
Cost: £24 to National Trust members to include coach, driver's gratuity and full
entry to both properties and Claydon House Garden. If you are not a National Trust member, you
will need to pay entry on arrival at each property.
Coach Pick
Ups: 7:45am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR
8am at Millstream Coach Park, Salisbury OR 8:15am at London Road Park
& Ride.
NAME
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LANDLINE
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MOBILE
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EMAIL
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COACH PICKUP
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ARE YOU A
NATIONAL TRUST MEMBER?
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Please complete and return with your
cheque for £24 payable to Salisbury U3A to:
Margaret
Vacha, 1 Grasmere Close, Salisbury SP2 8DG
SUDELEY
CASTLE and GARDENS
Thursday
17th August 2017
Cost –
Please tick ONE of the following and please add carefully before writing your
cheque:
꙱ £28 to include coach travel,
driver gratuity and entry
꙱
£16.50 (with HHA membership) to include coach
travel, driver gratuity and entry
PLUS ONE of the following if you wish:
꙱ Add £10 for an art tour from 2:30-4pm
and limited to the first 10 to apply and not suitable for those with mobility
difficulties
OR
꙱ Add £5 for a garden tour from
2-3:30pm and limited to the first 20 to apply
Coach
Pick Ups: 8am at Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton OR
8:15am at Millstream Coach Park, Salisbury OR 8:30am at London Road Park & Ride.
NAME(S)
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LANDLINE
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MOBILE
.........................................................................................
EMAIL
….........................................................................................................
COACH PICKUP
..................................................
Please complete and return with your cheque
payable to Salisbury U3A to:
Margaret
Vacha, 1 Grasmere Close, Salisbury SP2 8DG
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