This year our annual holiday was a 5 day trip to Liverpool organised by Tailored Travel departing 6th July 2026. 

Cost £799. Single room supplement £119 pp. Insurance £38 pp.

4 night stay in the Radisson Blu Hotel near the Royal Liver Building. The cost includes  dinner on days 1 and 4 (drinks not included), while the other days are on a bed and breakfast basis.

The trip Includes a guided tour of Liverpool, the Walker Art Gallery and the Lady Lever Art Gallery. On the way to Liverpool there will be a guided tour of the Wedgwood Factory and on the final day there will be a guided tour of The Lowry in Manchester.

For full information visit Tailored Travel's website - click here or click on View Your Tour at www.tailored-travel.co.uk and quote rchd261

For a PDF of the Brochure see the Documents section of the website or click here. 

Visiting Granada, the Alhambra, Cordoba, Seville and Ronda

Including a guided tour of the Alhambra Palace and a visit to the Generalife Gardens in Granada, before travelling to Seville, stopping en-route for a guided tour of Cordoba. In Seville there will be a guided tour which will include the Reales Alacazares and the Museo de Belles Artes. On the last day there will be a visit to Ronda with a guided city tour.

For full information visit Tailored Travel's website - click here.

For a PDF of the Brochure see the Documents section of the website or click here. The tour is fully booked but contact Gill Gowing on gmgowing@btinternet.com to see if there are any cancellations.

6 days departing 20th October 2025 from Heathrow. Cost £1,629. Single room supplement £199 pp. Insurance £79. Gratuities extra. 2 nights in Granada at the 4* Occidental Hotel and 3 nights Seville at the 4* Macia Kubb Hotel. Set 3 course dinners on 4 nights (drinks not included), 5th night is on a bed and breakfast basis.

A visit to Dorneywood has been organised for the 24th June between 2pm and 4.30pm. There is a minimum number of 30 people and a maximum of 40.

Dorneywood is an 18th century house near Burnham owned by the National Trust and is a grace-and-favour home for a senior member of the Government. Since John Prescott left the house in 2006 the residents have all been Chancellor's of the Exchequer and the current resident is Rachel Reeves.

Dorneywood is a "lived in house" and contains many works of art. The garden contains a number of Grade II listed buildings.

Cost per person is £35 (inc National Trust members) and includes entry to the house and gardens + coffee/tea and cake in the gazebo .

Members will be required to make their own way to Dorneywood, Dorney Wood Road, Burnham, SL1 8PY. Plenty of parking is available.

Chiswick House and Gardens is one of the most glorious examples of 18th-century British architecture and landscaped gardens, with over 300 years of discovery, inspiration and delight.

Art and culture has always been at the heart of Chiswick House and Gardens – from Lord Burlington’s collection to artists today. Rather than a conventional home, Chiswick House was a bold architectural experiment. It also provided an exquisite setting for Burlington’s collection of paintings, specially-designed furniture and souvenirs from his European travels.

Step out of the ordinary with 120 acres of art, nature, and creativity. An extraordinary place filled with inspiration and imagination, outside and in.

Leaving at 9.00 am from Rickmansworth, the cost is £57.83 (or £62.83 with soup) per person and includes coach, morning coffee, lunch and guided tour. (See booking form for more information).

Compton Verney has many collections some of which are mentioned here:

Folk Art Collection

The largest collection of Folk Art in the UK. ‘Folk Art’ – sometimes known as ‘naïve art’ – refers to art made by highly skilled people who wished to express their creative urges but had no formal artistic training. Growing out of the long-established craft traditions in local communities, folk art can encompass objects made for a specific purpose – such as shop signs, agricultural implements and weathervanes – and decorative works created primarily to satisfy the maker – such as street scenes, collage pictures and even moving automata. Often, these items provide an insight into what life was like for ordinary people, both rural and urban, during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The current display has been curated by artist and designer Mark Hearld.

Northern Europe1450-1650

This collection features artworks produced in Northern Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Religion was one of the most important features of life at this time and religious commissions accounted for much of the artistic output. The purpose of religious art was to function as an aid to worship, connecting the viewer with the story of Jesus’s life and suffering. The works in our collection encompass a range of formats: from small, intimate paintings that would have been displayed in private homes and chapels to large, dramatic altarpieces and emotive sculptures. 

Marx Lambert Collections

This collection was formed by the artist Enid Marx (1902-1998) and historian Margaret Lambert (1906-95), who together shared a love of English popular art. Writing several books on the subject, they defined their interest in ‘the art which ordinary people have, from time immemorial, introduced into their lives, sometimes making it themselves, at others imposing their tastes on the product of the craftsmen or of the machine.’ The Marx-Lambert collection features ceramics, glassware, corn dollies, canalware, and papier-mâché figures.

Miniatures 1550-1850

Co-curated with portrait miniatures specialist Emma Rutherford, this sumptuous exhibition will delve into the fascinating history of portrait miniatures. Compton Verney’s 72-strong Grantchester Miniatures collection will be displayed in its entirety for the first time, along with examples from the Dumas Egerton Trust collection of over 800 miniatures – on long-term loan – and key works by individual collectors. This will provide you with a rare opportunity to view works by many of the leading miniature painters to have worked in Britain, from Isaac Oliver and Samuel Cooper to Richard Cosway and George Engleheart.

And much  more see https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/

For more information on the various exhibitions visit Compton Verney website  - click HERE

For BOOKING FORM click here or go to Our Society / Documents

'IN CASE OF EMERGENCY'
This exhibition curated by Joelle Taylor, T.S Eliot Prize-winning poet, features nearly 200 artworks across visual, writing and music categories entered into the 2023 Koestler Awards for art in the criminal justice system, by individuals in prisons, secure mental health facilities, immigration removal centres, young offender institutions and on community sentences across the UK.

We have given grants to Koestler Arts for the last three years and we are invited to a hosted visit to their annual exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall at 2pm on Friday 8th December.  There is no charge, but we do have to let the Koestler Trust know how many people will be attending.  If you plan to join us on the visit please email Jeff Baker at jeff_t_baker@hotmail.com and let him know you'd like to attend.

TASR trip to Spain to Madrid, Toledo, Salamanca and Segovia

Including orientation / guided tours of Madrid, Toledo and Salamanca and guided tours of the Museo del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Also the group tour will see Avila and Segovia and the Museo Sorolla (in Madrid)

6 days departing 9th October 2023 from Heathrow

Cost £1,599. Single room supplement £199. Insurance £66. Gratuities extra.

3 nights stay in Madrid at the 4* Carlton Hotel. 2 nights stay in Salamanca at the 4* Abba Fonseca Hotel.

Day Visit to Burghley House Wednesday 20th September 2023

The grandest house of the first Elizabethan Age was designed and built by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth 1st.  

Leave Moor Lane lay-by at 9.30am, arrive at Burghley House approximately 11.30 coffee (included) on arrival. Self guided tour of house and garden. Lunch at 1.30pm (included) in the Orangery Restaurant.

Depart Burghley House at 4pm

Cost £47

Click HERE for booking form

Standen House is a creative masterpiece by Philip Webb (built 1891-94), inspired by Sussex vernacular architecture and furnished by Morris & Co for the Beale family in the Arts and Crafts style.   For its time it was very comfortable with electric light and central heating.  The light-filled graceful rooms show off the many colourful fabrics and wallpapers designed by William Morris.  Many of the beautiful embroideries were made by Mrs Beale and her daughters, to Morris designs.  Note the lovely de Morgan tiles.

The 12 acre garden is divided into outdoor rooms each with its own theme, designed by Margaret Beale:  Quarry Garden, Terrace with spectacular views, Lower Garden, Rosery and lovely Kitchen Garden, surrounded  by an estate of 100 acres of woods and fields.

James Beale came from a Birmingham family of nonconformists.  He was a successful solicitor working on Midland railway negotiations.  The family were intellectual, cultured and progressive.  They found Standen an idyllic home and barely changed anything.   

Enjoy the plants centre, second hand bookshop and a lovely shop full of beautiful William Morris inspired homewares, gifts, local products and souvenirs.

Depart:   9.15 am

Coffee: on arrival in the Barn Café  (included)

Introductory talk     Followed by   Self guided tour of house and garden in smaller groups

Lunch (included) :  Soup and Sandwich        see choices on booking form

Carry on exploring,  Tea (not included)

Depart:  4PM                                     COST:  £37   NT member         or       £ 51     non member

Contact:  Marian Trim   01923 284078    14 Gate Cottages, Old Common Rd,  Chorleywood  WD3 5LW

mail@mariantrim.plus.com         mobile only in emergencies (no texts)  07704905271

Click HERE   for booking form or go to Our Society / Documents

Bombing with Banksy and Co

The Street Art and Graffiti of Shoreditch and Spitalfields.

25th April and 11th May 2023

CANCELLED

Due to not enough people signing up

A 5 day trip run by Chorleywood Fine Arts,

Cost from £699

See leaflet and booking form on Our Society / Documents 

or click here:- Suffolk Historic Houses - Chorleywood Fine Arts

Many of you will remember the excellent lecture given a couple of years ago by Angela Findlay about art work in prisons. This led us last year to begin a relationship with the Koestler Trust, through our ‘Arts Volunteering’ programme.

This year we are again supporting Koestler, the UK’s best known prison arts charity.

Every year they hold an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by prisoners, at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank. Several of us visited the 2021 exhibition which was really fascinating and displayed work which showed real talent. Thousands of entries are received each year for what is a really prestigious event.

This year the exhibition has been curated by Ai Weiwei, the famous dissident Chinese artist.

We have been invited to an accompanied tour of the exhibition and an introduction to the work, usually given by a former prisoner. 

This year, the exhibition space will be transformed. Ai Weiwei’s design comprises of fifteen cell spaces that are based on the size of a typical cell in a UK prison, which roughly measures 1.8m by 3m. Each cell contains a multitude of work, with the smallest containing 78 and the largest containing 131.

There is no charge for entry.  

You will need to make your own way there for 11.15am Monday 7th November. Nearest tube – Waterloo.

BOOKING

Please let Jeff Baker know if you are interested in attending – by email to

Jeff_T_Baker@hotmail.com

or phone on  01923 263062

Your chance to see The Marriage of Figaro at the world class Glyndebourne Opera House

FULLY BOOKED

When a womanising aristocrat tries to seduce his valet’s pretty young fiancée, his wife and servants conspire to teach him a lesson in fidelity he’ll never forget. Plots are hatched, promises made (and broken) and disguises donned, as Mozart’s ‘mad day’ unfolds. Often described as the perfect opera to start your opera journey or enjoy time and time again!

Join Beds & Herts Area on this coach trip to see some of the heritage of Sussex culminating in a night at the opera that will include dinner at Glyndebourne.

Included are

    • Glyndebourne opera tickets

    • 4* hotel

    • Two dinners included 

    • Penshurst Place – guided tour

    • Lewes

    • Anne of Cleves House

    • Michelham Priory – guided tour 

NOTE Beds & Herts Area Support Team are only facilitating the trip, your contract will be with Tailored Travel.

JANE AUSTEN’S HOUSE:  Enchanting Hampshire cottage where Jane lived and wrote her novels.  Explore the house and garden where the much-loved writer flourished.  Period costumes, personal possessions are sensitively displayed.

THE VYNE:  Five centuries of history are brought to life in this red brick Tudor palace turned 17th century family home, set in 1500 acres of gardens, woodlands and wetlands.  The Vyne has opened more rooms and has an exhibition of its 500 year of history.   Henry VIII’s Lord Chamberlain lived here.  After the Civil War,  Chaloner Chute, Speaker of the House of Commons  reduced the size of the house and installed  the classical portico by Inigo Jones, the first on a private house. Sweeping lawns, lakeside walks, walled garden, fine staircase, oak gallery and tapestry room are some of the gems to discover. (National Trust)

DEPART MOOR LANE:    9AM

COFFEE:    Farnham Services on route  (not included)

ARRIVE JANE AUSTEN’S HOUSE:  approx.  1045

LEAVE:  approx.  1215

ARRIVE THE VYNE:  approx. 1245

LUNCH  in the Brewhouse Café  (included)  Soup and Sandwich  see choices below

INTRODUCTORY TALK:   2.15 

VISIT  House,  visit Garden

LEAVE: 4.30                                                

COST   £43  NT members         £55.35 non members

CONTACT:  Marian Trim 01923 284078                  mail@mariantrim.plus.com

Mobile  07704905271  (no texts)  in emergency only

 Address 14 Gate Cottages Old Common Rd, Chorleywood, Herts   WD3 5LW

DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORM HERE

OUTING TO JANE AUSTEN’S HOUSE AND THE VYNE   WEDNESDAY 19TH OCTOBER

NAME ………………………………………………………………………….TEL NO ………………………………………………………..

Mobile ………………………………………………………………………... PAID cheque/bank …………………………………….

LUNCH CHOICE:                                                                                                                CHOOSE (Below)

SOUP   garden vegetable   OR red pepper                 ……………………………………………………..…………..

SANDWICH:  Ham Ploughman’s Roll  OR                    …………………………………………..……………………..

Tuna and Sweetcorn Crunch sandwich  OR Egg Mayo sandwich  OR Cheese & red onion Gluten free sandwich OR vegan option    -   CHOOSE

Emergency contact:   Name…………………………………………………..Tel No………………………………………………….

The Arts and Crafts of Birmingham and the West Midlands

5 days from £699

Departing 19th September 2022

Among other places, this 5 day tour will include visits to the new cathedral at Coventry, Brimingham Jewellery Quarter, Aston Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Ragley Hall.  We will stay in a 4* Birmingham hotel with half board accommodation.  All travel, entrance fees and guided tours are included.

For further information and to download the brochure and booking form please click here, or contact Gill Gowing: gmgowing@btinternet.com

Visit to Strafield Saye House, Hampshire

Home to the Dukes of Wellington since 1818

Tuesday 24th May 2022

Stratfield Saye was given to the 1st Duke of Wellington by a grateful nation after the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.  This was the Iron Duke’s private abode, while Apsley House in London and Walmer Castle were his official residences.  Wellington, after all his military campaigning, liked comfort and warmth and the house, now very much as he left it, has lovely paintings and furniture.  The Wellington exhibition in the Stable Block includes the amazing funeral carriage, built of 18 tons of French bronze cannons captured at Waterloo.  The extensive gardens have a wonderful collection of Wellingtonias and the grave of the Duke’s beloved warhorse ‘Copenhagen’.

Itinery

LEAVE MOOR LANE:  9.00  Please NOTE earlier time

ARRIVE STRATFIELD SAYE:  11.00 ish

 COFFEE (included)  ON ARRIVAL in the Visitor Centre

While we have coffee, we will be divided into groups of 6 for timed tickets to the House tour (1 hour+),   talk (20 minutes) on the Duke’s life, political career, and funeral, and each receive a map of the gardens.

LUNCH: (included*)   will be available when you require it In the Visitor Centre

GARDENS:  free to roam

TEA:   3.30  LEAVE on coach  for the Wellington Farm Shop for tea and cakes.  The shop also sells the Estate’s Hereford beef, Estate honey and olive oil from the Wellington Spanish estate.

LEAVE FOR HOME : 4.30 pm                    COST £47.00           

CONTACT:   Marian Trim  01923 284078                      mail@mariantrim.plus.com

Mobile  07704905271 (no texts) in emergency only

Booking Form

OUTING TO STRATFIELD SAYE  TUESDAY 24TH MAY 2022

NAME…………………………………………………………………………….

TEL NO…………………………………………………………

Mobile……………………………………………………………………………

PAID…………………………………………………………….

LUNCH CHOICE:   Meat & potato Pasty,  Cheese OR Ham Ploughmans with pickles,  Tomato, Basil & Mozzarella Quiche,  all with salad, tea/coffee/water.  Lunch is included, please indicate choice.

Emergency contact:  Name………………………………………………….

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Visit to Longford Castle, Wiltshire

26th April 2022
 

Longford Castle is very seldom open to visitors which is why you may not have heard of it.  We have a Special Interest tour.   One of the most magnificent of all English country houses, it is the home of the Pleydel- Bouverie family, the Earls of Radnor.   The house was built in the late 16th  century to a triangular plan. The 2nd Earl of Radnor employed Thomas Wyatt to transform it into an hexagonal palace but this scheme was  abandoned; later the Victorian  architect  Anthony Salvin completed it.

The Longford Collection, formed over generations, is one of the finest in the UK and includes  paintings by Van Dyke, Claude, Teniers, Hals, Reynolds, Gainsborough, and oriental porcelain, Brussels tapestries, 18th Century English and Continental furniture.

Longford Castle is associated with the National Gallery and some of the Gallery’s best paintings are on loan from Longford.  Your entrance ticket includes a small guidebook.

Refreshments are not available at the Castle.  Please bring your own tea/coffee and consume it on the coach.  Lunch is included at the Radnor Arms.

Itinerary

LEAVE  MOOR LANE:   9  am    Please NOTE   earlier than usual

ARRIVE  LONGFORD CASTLE:  11  am   House Tour.    After the house tour (2 hours) we will go in the bus (half a mile) to the Radnor Arms  for lunch.

LUNCH   1.30pm approx.   Buffet lunch (Ham, cheese, vegetarian quiche, salad, pickles, bread)   Please purchase your own drinks, tea/coffee

2.30 approx    We leave for SALISBURY  (2 ½ miles)   A visit to the cathedral has been arranged at a cost of £6.90 pp.  The cathedral has a tea room.   If you do not wish to visit the cathedral, there is Mompesson House in the Close which is National Trust, or £8 for non members;  a fine 18th century townhouse, with beautiful plasterwork,  staircase  and collection of china and glass.   Please let me know if you want to do this.   Or you may prefer to just enjoy Salisbury.

Leave for home   4.30 pm

COST:  Longford Castle, lunch      £47.00             Longford Castle, lunch, Salisbury Cathedral      £54.00

CONTACT:   Marian Trim   01923 284078    mail@mariantrim.plus.com

MOBILE  07704905271  (no texts) in emergency only)

Booking Form

OUTING TO LONGFORD CASTLE AND SALISBURY,  TUESDAY 26th APRIL 2022

NAME………………………………………………….

TEL NO ..................................................................

MOBILE ..................................................................

PAID: (please make CHEQUES* out to TASR in black pen)  or pay by BANK TRANSFER account no 00060307  sort code 405 240.  Please identify payment with  Longford

£47 for Longford Castle and lunch     OR        £54 for Longford Castle, lunch and Salisbury Cathedral

*Send cheques to Marian Trim,  14 Gate Cottages, Old Common Road, Chorleywood, Herts  WD3 5LW

Monday 14th March 2022
The Fan Museum - Greenwich

We have arranged a tour of the Fan Museum in the morning of Monday 14th March (previously arranged for 21st January). It is a private tour as the museum is closed to visitors on Mondays. You make your own way there arriving at 11.30.  There will be refreshments on arrival and an introductory talk by Mrs Alexander the founder of the museum followed by a guided tour of the museum.  Numbers are limited as it is only a small museum.  

Cost £15. To book complete the slip below or e-mail your name and telephone number to Gill Gowing at gmgowing@btopenworld.com and pay the TASR account 00060307 Sort code 40 52 40 with FAN and your name as reference or by post send your name, e-mail address and telephone number to 94 Moor Lane Rickmansworth WD3 1LQ together with your cheque made out in black ink to TASR. 

Name:

Telephone Number:

e-mail address:

Payment Type: cheque/electronic transfer

Discover Hogarth and his European contemporaries’ vivid vision of the changing 18th century.

European society and culture changed dramatically in the mid-18th century. This was an age of opportunity and change, enlightenment and innovation, but also materialism, exploitation and injustice. In an affluent, cosmopolitan Europe, the seeds of modern empire, revolution and global war were being sown.

In Britain, William Hogarth became famous for paintings and prints that captured the new modern experience with energy, wit and humanity. But he was not alone. Across Europe, artists were creating vivid images of contemporary life and social commentary. The rich and the poor, the immoral and self-deluding, the selfish and the selfless, were made characters in pictorial stories that caught people’s imaginations and took art in novel directions.

For the first time, this exhibition will bring together Hogarth’s greatest works with those of his peers across the continent – including Francesco Guardi in Venice, Chardin in Paris and Cornelis Troost in Amsterdam – to suggest the cross currents, parallels and sympathies that crossed borders.

The Arts Society Rickmansworth

Day of Special Interest

 Hogarth and Europe at Tate Britain

on Tuesday 22nd February 2022

comprising tea/coffee on arrival at 11am, a lecture at 11.30 am by Frank Woodgate followed by a light lunch and timed entrance at 1.30pm to the exhibition

 Name(s) 

Telephone Number                            

Email                                                   

In Case of Emergency Contact Number for 22nd February

Cost as detailed below

            Adult £44 per person

Concession (over 60/ Arts Society Member/Student) £43 per person

Adult with Art Fund £36 per person

Concession with Art Fund £35.50 per person

Tate Member £27 per person

Please circle as appropriate and if booking for more than one person please make it clear which

category each person falls into.

Please pay by cheque made out in black ink payable to “T AS Rickmansworth’  and post

with your application form to Gill Gowing, 94 Moor Lane, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.

WD3 1LQ

Or by Online banking to:
TASR Account No. 00060307,  Sort code 40 52 40, adding

Reference HOGARTH plus your surname

Any queries, please contact:-

Gill Gowing at gmgowing@btopenworld.com or 01923 777715 or 07882761471 

Koestler Arts - November 2021 visit
Koestler Arts, the prison arts charity the society is supporting, have offered to arrange a bespoke tour of their exhibition at the Southbank Centre.  Jeff Baker will be leading this visit.

https://koestlerarts.org.uk

Curated by artist Camille Walala and her sister, curator Sarah Ihler-Meyer, The I and the We will showcase around 200 powerful artworks selected from over 6,400 entries to the 2021 Koestler Awards.

This year’s Koestler Arts UK exhibition of art, music and writing by people in criminal justice settings is back in Level 1 of Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

Expect quirky artworks made of found materials, works full of humour and joy, as well as pieces reflecting on loss, relationships and prison life, all created during the pandemic.

Meet at the Royal Festival Hall at 11.00 (make your own way there).

CHORLEYWOOD FINE ARTS

We are proposing a four-day, three-night visit to Cardiff in October.  

The details are:-
 
Departing on Tuesday 5 October and returning to Chorleywood on Friday 8 October.   
 
Executive coach and half board accommodation at the 4* Clayton Hotel in Cardiff.
 
En route visits - Tredegar House and Laycock Abbey

In Cardiff visit Senedd Building and guided tour of Wales Millennium Centre.
 
Guided tours of Cardiff Castle, Castell Coch and the National Museum and Gallery of Wales

estimated cost £405 per person for double/twin room for two people sharing (single room occupancy supplement of £89)
 
Obviously we need to await the lifting or otherwise of the current restrictions.  At this time, therefore, what we need is an expression of interest in joining the trip - there is no financial commitment.
 
Please let me know if you are interested in participating by responding to the attached form.
 
Kind regards,
 
Hilary Walker

CARDIFF VISIT    -              Tuesday 5 October  –  Friday 8 October 2021

I am/we are interested in participating in the tour

We would like a twin/double room

Or

I would like a room for single occupancy

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Please respond to:                           Mrs Hilary Walker,

                                                                90 The Drive,

                                                                Rickmansworth,              

                                                                WD3 4DU.

                                                                excul90@gmail.com                               

                                                                01923 896576

VISIT TO PENSHURST PLACE  AND GARDENS

TUESDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 2021

One of England’s greatest family owned historic houses, its history spans nearly seven centuries. Largely unaltered over the ages, Penshurst’s medieval Baron’s Hall (1341 ) has a 60ft high chestnut beamed roof,  a collection of paintings, tapestries and furniture from 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.In 1521 Henry VIII  used Penshurst as a hunting lodge and to visit Ann Boleyn at nearby Hever Castle.  This is and was the home of the Sidneys.  The dazzling Sir Philip Sidney was courtier, soldier and poet to Queen Elizabeth I,  his mother was one of the Queen’s ladies.  She nursed the Queen through smallpox, contracted it herself and was so disfigured she chose to wear a mask thereafter.

The gardens, originally laid out in  the 14th century, have been developed by the Sidneys since 1552.  A mile of yew hedges divides the gardens into ‘rooms’ displaying seasonal colour, including the Italian garden, Rose garden, Grey garden, Stage garden, and much more.

We will have a guided tour of the house in the morning and free time to explore the gardens  after lunch.

LEAVE MOOR LANE:  Promptly at 9.15am

ARRIVE PENSHURST PLACE (Kent):  10.45 ish

COFFEE and COOKIE:   (included)  on arrival

GUIDED TOUR OF HOUSE: 11am

LUNCH:  (included)   Choose from -  Baked Salmon with Nicoise Salad  OR Tomato Pasta bake with baby leaf salad,  followed by Summer pudding with cream and raspberry coulis OR Lemon tart with lemon custard sauce

GARDENS (after lunch)   FREE TO ROAM

LEAVE FOR HOME:  4.30PM                                                           COST £48.00 

CONTACT:  Marian Trim   01923 284078                        mail@mariantrim.plus.com

Mobile 07704905271 (no texts) in emergency only

Please confirm your place with Marian by phone and pay by either:

 Online banking (preferred, as bank charges us 60p per cheque) to:

                     TASR Account No. 00060307,   Sort code 40 52 40, adding

Reference PENS plus your surname and then email your application form to mail@mariantrim.plus.com

 or post it to Marian at address below

Cheque:

 Made out in black ink payable to “TASR”  and post with your application to:

Marian Trim, 14 Gate Cottages, Old Common Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth  Herts WD3 5LW

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OUTING TO PENSHURST PLACE  TUESDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 2021

NAME……………………………………………………………………..TEL NO…………………………………………………….

Mobile………………………………………………………………………….PAID………………………………………………….

LUNCH CHOICE:   Seared supreme of Salmon with Nicoise salad      OR (vegetarian) Tomato pasta bake with baby leaf salad and garlic ciabatta

Followed by   Summer Pudding terrine with clotted cream and raspberry coulis  OR Lemon tart with cherry compote and lemon custard sauce

Lunch is included.  Please indicate choice.

Emergency contact:   Name……………………………………………………..Tel No……………………………………………

The Arts Society Rickmansworth

A rare opportunity to see the unique wall paintings at

132 Piccotts End, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

This Grade one listed building with its 1527 series of wall paintings, which we were due to visit last year, has agreed to host three visits specifically for us on Friday 17th September, one in the morning and one in the afternoon and a further visit on the morning of Monday 20th September.

Karen Murphy (one of the owners) who has done extensive research on the property will give a talk lasting approximately 50 minutes. This will outline the history of the building and the fascinating political, and religious influences on the paintings and their subject matter in this period of change in the second quarter of the sixteenth century.

There will then be a chance to explore this small cottage.

The morning visits will include coffee/tea and biscuits on arrival at 10.15 with the talk at 10.45 and if requested a light lunch (sandwich/salad and quiche) at the end of the visit.  Places are limited to a maximum of 25 and to 20 for lunch.  The afternoon visit commences at 2pm with the talk at 2.30 followed by tea and biscuits at approximately 3.30pm and if requested a cream tea

The cost of the visit is £10.00 plus, for morning visitors, if requested, £7.50 for lunch and for the afternoon visitors, if requested, £5 for a cream tea.

All proceeds are to benefit the upkeep of the house and paintings which gets no outside funding.

You make your own way there.  There is free street parking outside the property, the address of which is 132 Piccotts End, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP1 3AU. Please car share if possible as parking is limited. Before your visit you will be advised of your TASR contact for the visit.

TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE

Visit to Piccotts End, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire on

17th September morning      first choice/second choice/third choice/with lunch

17th September afternoon   first choice/second choice/third choice/with cream tea

20th September morning       first choice/second choice/third choice/with lunch

Please indicate your preferences for day/time by circling your first, second and third choices. Also leave ’lunch’ or ’cream tea’ in if you require these on your chosen dates or otherwise delete.

Name(s) ………………………………………………....................................

Telephone Number (preferably mobile)………………………………………

e-mail …………………………………………………………………………….

In Case of Emergency Contact Number ……………………………………..

You will then be advised of the date and time of your visit and the amount due.

Your reservation will be acknowledged and you will then be advised of the date and time of your visit, the amount due and how to pay.  If you do not have an e-mail address please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope.

Your reservation will be confirmed once payment has been received.

Please return this reservation form to gmgowing@btinternet.com or by post to Gill Gowing, 94 Moor Lane, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. WD3 1LQ.  

NOTE

Places are limited on each visit and we have to give priority to our 2021/22 Members. By reserving a place on this visit it is assumed that you will be joining the Society in 2021/22.  If you haven’t joined by the end of August 2021, and there is a waiting list for the visit, your place will be offered to a 2021/22 Member on the waiting list.

Any queries:

Contact: Gill Gowing at gmgowing@btinternet.com or  07882761471

CHRISTMAS AT KEW

We will arrive at Kew at 17.00 just as it is getting dark  and take a leisurely stroll around the gardens which are lit with thousands of lights.

The paths are flat and there are seats on route. Afterwards there is an open air Christmas craft market  and Kews on delightful cafe to visit.

Now in its seventh year, the 2019 winter trail takes a magical new route and includes a host of all-new installations. 

Framed by glittering spiral trees, dynamic laser projections will illuminate the iconic Temperate House.

A dazzling arch leads to a cascade of glowing silvery shards at the Treetop Walkway. Walk amongst immersive vines as they surprise with changing ribbons of light, and wander beneath the branches where mysterious fairy-fire known as Will-o’the Wisp softly glows. 

Familiar favourites will also return. The Holly Bushes will sing, the Tunnel of Light will twinkle with thousands of pea-lights, and the flickering Fire Garden takes its place amidst the festive experience.

Walk under larger-than-life arches of light and beneath unique tree canopies drenched in Christmas colour.

Christmas at Kew wouldn’t be complete without the Palm House Pond finale as jumping jets of light dance across the water to much-loved Christmas classics.

Complete a walk under the stars with spiced cider, mulled wine or hot chocolate and end the evening browsing Kew’s gift shops. Why not pick up some treats for the journey home?

Cost will be approx. £52 

BOOKING OPEN WAITING LIST

AREA VISIT

City of London Walking Tour, with Ian Swankie,  and guided visit to the Guildhall Art Gallery, on two alternative dates:

Friday 20th September and Friday 4th October

The day has two parts:

City Walking Tour - this is a circular walk of about 90 minutes led by City Guide, Ian Swankie. We will see the heart of this famous and historical financial centre including many interesting juxtapositions of old and new. Medieval buildings are framed and reflected in gleaming skyscrapers. The tour will pass several churches, some by Christopher Wren, ancient alleyways, livery halls, financial institutions, hidden gardens and some world class modern architecture.

 and 

Guildhall Art Gallery - we will have a private group tour by an official guide in the gallery. We will cover the highlights of this hidden gem. The gallery houses the collection of the Corporation of the City of London and they have been commissioning and acquiring art for over 350 years. There is an excellent range of historical and modern works of London subjects, and they have a sparkling Victorian collection including several Pre-Raphaelites. The tour will include the Roman amphitheatre ruins, discovered by chance in the 1980s.

The visit is being offered on two dates and the application form asks you to indicate whether you can make both dates or, if just one, which one.  If you can make both dates but have a preference for one rather than the other, please say so.  This is to enable the size of the groups to be managed. 

The precise arrangements for the day will depend on the number of people.  The maximum size of a group is 30.  If there is sufficient take up on either or both days there will be two groups, one will do the walking tour with Ian in the morning and the other the Guildhall Art Gallery.  Then after lunch, which is not included, the groups will swap over. 

The day will start at 11am outside the Guildhall Art Gallery and will end there at approximately 3.30 pm.  

Cost £25 per person including an audio guide

Application Form

Name(s)                                               ……………………………………………………............

Telephone Number                             ………………………………………………………………..

Email                                                   ………………………………………………………………..

Society                                                 ………………………………………………………………..

In Case of Emergency Contact Number for Day of Visit         ………………………………

Please tick one of the following:

 I/We can only make the 20th September:

I/We can only make the 4th October:

 I/We can make both dates:

            My/Our preference is for 20th September/4th October/either (please delete as appropriate)

Cost £25 per person to include audio guide

 Please pay by either

 Online banking to:
                  

The Arts Society - Beds and Herts Area,   Account No. 20787825,   Sort code 20 74 81, adding

Reference GH plus your surname and then email your application form to Gill Gowing at gmgowing@btopenworld.com

 or by cheque payable to “The Arts Society - Beds and Herts Area”  and post with your application

form to Gill Gowing, 94 Moor Lane, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. WD3 1LQ

Our bank has requested that all cheques are completed in BLACK ink - thank you for complying

Any queries, please contact:-

 Gill Gowing at gmgowing@btopenworld.com or 01923 777715 or 07882761471                          

VISIT TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2019

KING RICHARD III VISITOR CENTRE, LEICESTER and LEICESTER CATHEDRAL

King Richard III died fighting Henry Tudor in the Wars of the Roses, at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.  He was buried in the medieval friary of Greyfriars.  Over the years the friary disappeared and lately a car park was made over the site. The exhibition  reveals one of the greatest archaeological detective stories ever told, including the first ever genome sequencing of ancient DNA. We will see the very place of the king’s hasty burial over 500 years ago. 

After lunch we have a tour of the cathedral where our last Plantagenet King has his final beautiful and dignified resting place.

Leave  Moor Lane:   9.15

11.30   Arrive Leicester:  Coffee on arrival

12.00  Talk  ‘ The King Under the Car Park ‘

12.45   Self led visit to the exhibition ‘Dynasty, Death and Discovery’

13.45  Lunch* in the King’s Suite

15.00  Leicester Cathedral tour   (adjacent to the Centre)

16.15  Depart                                                                                      COST:  £45.00

Contact:   Marian Trim   01923 284078    mail@mariantrim.plus.com

Mobile:  07704905271  (no texts)  emergency only

Please make cheques out to TASR  in black ink

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LUNCH* is included.  Choose from:   Baked Salmon with Hollandaise Sauce,  Beef and Mushroom Pie,  Brie and Courgette Crumble,  all accompanied by salad and vegetables,  followed by Apple Crumble and Custard

Please indicate choice of lunch*  

AREA VISIT

City of London Walking Tour, with Ian Swankie, and guided visit to the Guildhall Art Gallery, on two alternative dates:

Friday 20th September and Friday 4th October

The day has two parts:

 City Walking Tour - this is a circular walk of about 90 minutes led by City Guide, Ian Swankie. We will see the heart of this famous and historical financial centre including many interesting juxtapositions of old and new. Medieval buildings are framed and reflected in gleaming skyscrapers. The tour will pass several churches, some by Christopher Wren, ancient alleyways, livery halls, financial institutions, hidden gardens and some world class modern architecture.

 and 

Guildhall Art Gallery - we will have a private group tour by an official guide in the gallery. We will cover the highlights of this hidden gem. The gallery houses the collection of the Corporation of the City of London and they have been commissioning and acquiring art for over 350 years. There is an excellent range of historical and modern works of London subjects, and they have a sparkling Victorian collection including several Pre-Raphaelites. The tour will include the Roman amphitheatre ruins, discovered by chance in the 1980s.

The visit is being offered on two dates and the application form asks you to indicate whether you can make both dates or, if just one, which one.  If you can make both dates but have a preference for one rather than the other, please say so.  This is to enable the size of the groups to be managed. 

The precise arrangements for the day will depend on the number of people.  The maximum size of a group is 30.  If there is sufficient take up on either or both days there will be two groups, one will do the walking tour with Ian in the morning and the other the Guildhall Art Gallery.  Then after lunch, which is not included, the groups will swap over. 

The day will start at 11am outside the Guildhall Art Gallery and will end there at approximately 3.30 pm.  

Cost £25 per person including an audio guide

Application Form

Name(s)                                               ……………………………………………………............

Telephone Number                             ………………………………………………………………..

Email                                                   ………………………………………………………………..

Society                                                 ………………………………………………………………..

In Case of Emergency Contact Number for Day of Visit         ………………………………

Please tick one of the following:

I We can only make the 20th September:

 I/We can only make the 4th October:

 I/We can make both dates:

            My/Our preference is for 20th September/4th October/either (please delete as appropriate)

Cost £25 per person to include audio guide 

Please pay by either

 Online banking to:
                  The Arts Society - Beds and Herts Area,   Account No. 20787825,   Sort code 20 74 81, adding

Reference GH plus your surname and then email your application form to Gill Gowing at gmgowing@btopenworld.com

or by cheque payable to “The Arts Society - Beds and Herts Area”  and post with your application

form to Gill Gowing, 94 Moor Lane, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. WD3 1LQ

Our bank has requested that all cheques are completed in BLACK ink - thank you for complying

 Any queries, please contact:-

 Gill Gowing at gmgowing@btopenworld.com or 01923 777715 or 07882761471                          

Friday 28th June 2019

Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Herts

Your society has arranged a whole day visit to the Henry Moore Studio and Gardens.

Coach transfer from Rickmansworth 

Refreshments on arrival

Guided tour in small groups of Moore's former home Hoglands

Visit to Moore's studio

Visit to the 16thC Aisled Barn, the only place in the world to see Moore's remarkable tapestries

Access to 'The Art of Seeing' the current, largest exhibition of Moore's drawings, 150 in all for over 40 years

Accompanied tour of the extensive grounds with over 20 of Moore's iconic sculptures 

Cost £34 

BOOKINGS taken at March and April lectures or by email or phone 

to Jeff Baker at Jeff_T_Baker@hotmail.com or 01923 263062

Lunch not included options to follow including picnic

 AREA VISIT

The Ey Exhibition Van Gogh and Britain

at Tate Britain on Friday 21st June 2019 comprising a lecture by Frank Woodgate, timed entrance to the exhibition and refreshments.

This major exhibition brings together 45 works by Vincent van Gogh to reveal how he was inspired by Britain and how he inspired British artists

Van Gogh and Britain presents the largest collection of Van Gogh’s paintings in the UK for nearly a decade. Some of his most famous works will be brought together from around the world – including Shoes, Starry Night on the Rhône, L'Arlésienne, and two works he made while a patient at the Saint-Paul Asylum, At Eternity’s Gate and Prisoners Exercising. They will be joined by the very rarely lent Sunflowers from London’s National Gallery.

Van Gogh lived in England as a young man for several crucial years. He walked the streets alone, dreaming of the future. He fell in love with British culture, especially the novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot. And he was inspired by the art he saw here, including paintings by Constable and Millais which are featured in the exhibition. They affected his paintings throughout his career.

Programme Friday 21st June 2019

Make your own way to Tate Britain, Millbank, London

Please arrive at Tate Britain via the Clore Entrance at the side of the building on Millbank.  When standing with your back to the river the Clore entrance is located on the right of the main entrance through the green doors.  Please meet in the Clore Foyer 

11.00 Refreshments on arrival

11.30 One hour introductory lecture by Frank Woodgate

12.30 Buffet lunch

13.30 and 14.30 Timed tickets to Exhibition

  The exhibition also looks at the British artists who were inspired by Van Gogh, including Francis Bacon, David Bomberg, and the young Camden Town painters. It shows how his vision set British artists on the road to modern art.

Cost

Adult £44 per person

Concession (over 60/ Arts Society Member/Student) £42 per person

Adult with Art Fund £35.60 per person

Concession with Art Fund £34.60 per person

Tate Member £24.60 per person

APPLICATION FORM

 Name(s)                                               ……………………………………………………............

Telephone Number                             ………………………………………………………………..

 Email                                                   ………………………………………………………………..

 Society                                                 ………………………………………………………………..

 In Case of Emergency Contact Number for 21st June             ………………………………

 Cost as detailed below to include refreshments on arrival, lecture by Frank Woodgate, buffet lunch and timed entry to the exhibition at either 1.30 or 2.30  

                      Adult £44 per person

Concession (over 60/ Arts Society Member/Student) £42 per person

Adult with Art Fund £35.60 per person

Concession with Art Fund £34.60 per person

Tate Member £24.60 per person

 Please circle as appropriate and if booking for more than one person please make it clear which

category each person falls into.

                      Please advise any dietary requirements

Please pay by either

Online banking to:
                  

The Arts Society - Beds and Herts Area,   Account No. 20787825,   Sort code 20 74 81, adding  Reference VG plus your surname

and then email your application form to Gill Gowing at gmgowing@btopenworld.com

 or by cheque payable to “The Arts Society - Beds and Herts Area”  and post with your application

form to Gill Gowing, 94 Moor Lane, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. WD3 1LQ

Our bank has requested that all cheques are completed in BLACK ink - thank you for complying

Any queries, please contact:-

Gill Gowing at gmgowing@btopenworld.com or 01923 777715 or 07882761471              

VISIT TO HOUGHTON LODGE, STOCKBRIDGE AND TO MOTTISFONT, ROMSEY

                                                                   FRIDAY 14 JUNE 2019

Houghton Lodge is a Grade 11* Cottage Orne, the best surviving  example of this beautiful genre of architecture, built in 1793.  Mature gardens include a walled kitchen garden, 300ft herbaceous border, topiary, woodland walk. The gardens sweep down to the lovely River Test.

Mottisfont is a large, mellow 18th century house with a medieval priory at its heart. This magnificent, romantic house has been an artistic centre since Maud Russell made it her home in the 1930s.  Rex Whistler painted the extraordinary drawing room.  The renowned garden, by the River Test, has the world famous collection of roses – at their peak in June.  Tea can be had in the café.

LEAVE MOOR LANE:     9.15

ARRIVE HOUGHTON:  10.45 approx

COFFEE (included) on arrival, followed by -

TOUR OF HOUSE     TOUR OF GARDEN

LUNCH (included*)   1.00 approx

LEAVE FOR MOTTISFONT:   1.45 approx

MOTTISFONT:  Free Flow visit to house and to garden

LEAVE FOR HOME:   4.30                                                  COST: £42 for NT members    £55 for non NT

 CONTACT:  Marian Trim 01923 284078                  mail@mariantrim.plus.com 

Mobile   07704905271  (no texts)  emergency only

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LUNCH choice:    Quiche Lorraine  OR Vegetarian Quiche,  with coleslaw, salad, cheese, chutney, bread and coffee or tea

(*lunch is included, please indicate choice of quiche)

Emergency contact:   Name…………………………………………………Tel No……………………………………………….

CONTACT:  Marian Trim  01923 284078    mail@mariantrim.plus.com

15th to 19th May 2019

4 nights from £729 in Delft

Full are  in Our Society/Documents.

A few rooms are being  held up to 12th February.

Bookings must be made by then.

I fyou are interested please contact John Jefkins

johnjefkins@tiscali.co.uk ASAP.

VISIT TO STRATFORD ON AVON

TUESDAY 16TH APRIL 2019

Stratford on Avon is a busy modern town with notable Tudor associations.  We will be dropped at the RSC/Swan Theatres  where we will take coffee before having a one hour backstage tour of both theatres.  The RSC is situated on the beautiful  waterside of the River Avon

Lunch can be had in the town, notably in Sheep Street, where you can find all the usual lunch places.  Also note Marco Pierre White’s “ Marco” at 17  Chapel Street  (£10.95 for two courses) and The Garrick, 25 High Street, the oldest pub in Stratford, very nice and not expensive.

Visit  Shakespeare’s  Schoolroom and Guildhall, (entrance fee included), and a must see is the Holy Trinity Church, (free)  and Shakespeare’s tomb (£3).  Other heritage sites  are a little further off, and cost  extra. (map supplied)

Tea options include -   at the theatre sitting by the river, and Hobsons’ Patisserie (wonderful) at 1 Henley Street. (top of High Street on crossroads).

LEAVE :  9.15  Moor Lane  Rickmansworth

ARRIVE:  11.15 approx    COFFEE ON ARRIVAL  (included) at the RSC

 BACKSTAGE TOUR of RSC and Swan theatres  (fee included)

LUNCH   your choice)

Free time to visit the Schoolroom and GuildhalL (included), the Church etc.

COACH PICKUP AT THE THEATRE     4.30pm                         COST:     £34.00

CONTACT: Marian Trim  01923 284078    mail@mariantrim.plus.com

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Make your own way to Tate Britain, our group will have coffee, a private lecture and lunch. We will then be given timed entry tickets for the exhibition which we can take at our own pace.

Day of Special Interest - Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain on Monday 12th November 2018 comprising a lecture by  Rosalind Whyte, entrance to the exhibition and refreshments.

The last of the Pre-Raphaelites, Burne-Jones is synonymous with a refined and spiritualised style of beauty.

From being an outsider in British art, and spending much of his life in isolation, Burne-Jones(1833–1898) became a key figure in the art world at the end of the 19th century and a pioneer of the symbolist movement.

He challenged society by disengaging his art from the modern world, offering a parallel universe based on myth, legend and the Bible. Working in a wide range of materials, he pioneered a radical new approach to narrative in works created for both public and intimate settings.

This exhibition is London’s first major retrospective of the artist's work for over 40 years, and showcases 150 works in different media, including painting, stained glass and tapestry, all of which foreground Burne-Jones's belief in the redemptive power of art.

Programme Monday 12th November

 Make your own way to Tate Britain, Millbank, London

11.00 Refreshments on arrival

11.30 One hour introductory lecture by Rosalind Whyte

12.30 Buffet lunch

13.30 Timed tickets to Exhibition

Cost

Adult £41 per person

Concession (over 60/ Arts Society Member/Student) £40 per person

Adult with Art Fund £33.60 per person

Concession with Art Fund £33.10 per person

Tate Member £24.60 per person

To book complete slip below and return with cheque payable to TASR  to Gill Gowing 94 Moor Lane, Rickmansworth WD31LQ - acknowledgement will be sent by e-mail or enclose a SAE

Burne-Jones Day of Special Interest Monday 12th November 2018

Name:

Type of ticket: adult / concession/ adult Art Fund / concession Art Fund / Tate member (please circle)

Mobile contact number:

e-mail address:

In Case of Emergency contact number:

VISIT TO SPENCER HOUSE  27 ST JAMES PLACE

MONDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2018

Spencer House was built for John 1st Earl Spencer as his town house in 1756 by architect  John Vardy, later replaced by James ”Athenian”’  Stuart.  Stuart produced a neoclassical style house.  After WW!! The house was let ,and stripped of its treasures, but  a recent, much acclaimed restoration has returned the staterooms to their original sumptuous splendour.

We will travel by train.

Meet at 10,45 at Green Park Station, South side

11.00 Tour of house   (l hour + questions)

Afterwards – Hey!  The parks, Fortnum and Mason, Hatchards, the Ritz, Etc.  ENJOY

COST:        £13

CONTACT    Marian Trim  01923 284078   mail@mariantrim.plus.com

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CONTACT;  MARIAN Trim 01923 284078   mail@mariantrim.plus.com

Mobile (no texts, emergency only)   07704905271

VISIT TO CORSHAM COURT, WILTS

BOOK AT SEPTEMBER LECTURE

THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2018

Corsham is the stately and beautiful home of Lord Methuen.  His ancestor, diplomat  Sir Paul Methuen travelled widely in Europe collecting works of art. The Elizabethan E plan house (1582) was made over by Nathaniel Ireson into Palladian style in 1747, but only 13 years later Sir Paul called in Capability Brown to improve house and garden, creating a gallery for the art collection.  In 1795  John Nash made “ improvements”.  In 1884 Thos Bellamy remodelled the North front returning it to its Elizabethan origins.  The collection includes works by Van Dyck, Michaelangelo, Reynolds, Italian, Dutch ,French and Flemish masters, ceramics, furniture.  Extensive gardens have a lake, fine trees, lilly pond, marvellous follies, and peacocks.   Traffic permitting we will stop for coffee in beautiful Marlborough High Street .  Lunch  (included) has been arranged at La Piccolo Italia in Corsham, which is opening  especially for us.   

Departure: 9,15  Moor Lane   Rickmansworth

Coffee in Marlborough when we arrive there.  Your choice

Depart for Corsham  11.30

12.30  Lunch at La Piccolo Italia (included)    Choose from 5 options below

2.00  Tour of house, visit garden   Tea can be had in Corsham High Street

4.30 Depart for home.                                                      COST  £38.00

CONTACT;  MARIAN TRIM   01923 284078   mail@mariantrim.plus.com

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CONTACT;  Marian Trim  01923 284078   mail@mariantrim.plus.com

Free time in Chipping Campden for shopping and lunch followed by a visit to magnificent  Sezincote  House (reputed to be the inspiration for the Brighton Pavillion) and it's beautiful gardens

Sezincote is unique. At the heart of a traditional, family-run estate covering 4,500 acres of rolling Cotswold countryside stands a 200-year-old Mogul Indian palace, set in a romantic landscape of temples, grottoes, waterfalls and canals reminiscent of the Taj Mahal. 

Following the very successful and enjoyable visit to Normandy in 2017 a trip has been arranged to Northumbria. Travel will be by executive coach with stops on route, we will stay on a half board basis in a hotel just outside Newcastle.

Included visits will be to Harewood House (on the journey north), guided tour of Durham including the Cathedral, the Bowes Museum, Alnwick Castle, Cragside House and gardens and Lindisfarne Castle with an optional voyage to the Farne Islands to  see the birds. On the journey home we will stop off at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Full details can be found under the 'DOCUMENTS' tab. 

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

AGATHA   CHRISTIE

AT LONDON  COUNTY  HALL

   THURSDAY  17 MAY 2018 14.30 BOOKINGS NOW CLOSED 

TASR has a provisional booking for the above....

You have been summoned for jury service...

Step inside the magnificent surroundings of London County Hall and experience the intensity and drama of Agatha Christie’s gripping story of justice, passion and betrayal in a unique courtroom setting.

Leonard Vole is accused of murdering a widow to inherit her wealth. The stakes are high - will Leonard survive the shocking witness testimony, will he be able to convince the jury, and you of his innocence and escape the hangman’s noose?

 See you in court.

The venue is the splendid Council Chamber of the former LCC and GLC on the South Bank near the London Eye..  Our  “Clear View” seats are in the Court Room Stalls at £42.50 each  There is a £10 discount on the face value at the time of booking..

 Arrangements

1.      Make your own way to London County Hall.  The nearest underground a short walk away is WATERLOO – SOUTH BANK EXIT. Perhaps fit in a visit to the nearby Tate Modern.

2.             There is a good range of eateries in the area. .

3.             IF you would ONLY come IF transport is arranged, please indicate on the booking form  If there is demand  TASR  will arrange pick-ups by AREA CARS in Rickmansworth at around 11 am  and  after the show.  Cabs cost  £100 to £140 per cab, for 4 to 8 passengers.

Any queries contact: Steven Roberts 01923 897 500

BOOKING FORMS CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM HOME PAGE TAB "OUR SOCIETY/DOCUMENTS"

THE ARTS SOCIETY RICKMANSWORTH

Registered Charity No  1102829     www.TASRickmansworth.org.uk

MOZART IN VIENNA

PETER MEDHURST

 +3 SOLOISTS

MENUHIN HALL

Nr LEATHERHEAD

 MONDAY, 16 APRIL 2018

10.30 am to 4 pm

The last decade of Mozart’s life is often referred to as his “Golden Years” when he finally came of age musically.  Peter explores Mozart’s relationship with Vienna, the works he wrote there, and why it was specifically Vienna that finally freed up his creative genius.  For comprehensive details of the event, including cv’s of the soloists and Peter’s absorbing introduction, follow this link : http://petermedhurst.com/diary/16-april-2018-mozart-vienna-1781-91-study-day-menuhin-hall/

For information about the venue, just Google Menuhin HALL.

SEATS cost £38 each in the front stalls. 20 are provisionally booked.  

TRANSPORT You may either join our 19 seater Minibus in or near Rickmansworth at around 9 am  or make your own independent transport arrangements with friends – there is ample free parking at Menuhin Hall.

MINIBUS PICK-UP POINTS – TO BE AGREED WITH STEVEN ROBERTS

LUNCH  You should bring your own lunch – coffee and tea are available in the Hall for cash.  With luck we shall sit in the spring sunshine and enjoy the lovely Surrey views from the Hall surrounds!

BOOKING FORM

MOZART IN VIENNA 1781-91

 MENUHIN HALL

Nr LEATHERHEAD

MONDAY, 16 APRIL 2018

10.30am to 4 pm

NAME/(S) (CAPS)…………………………………………………………………………………………..

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ADDRESS

POSTCODE………………………

Email address(CAPS)………………………………………Tel:……………………………

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GOOD  STALLS SEATS                                                             @  £ 38.00        £

MINIBUS                                                                                      @    £18              £

SUGGESTED DONATION FROM NON-MEMBERS                      @ £5     =          £

                                                                                                  TOTAL         £

PLEASE MAKE CHEQUE PAYABLE TO TASR AND HAND/SEND TO:

CONTACT: Steven Roberts, 65 Beacon Way, Rickmansworth, WD3 7PB (Tel: 01923 897500).  If you require a receipt please put a X  here:-             I shall send it by email unless you enclose an sae marked receipt.

If actual costs, which for the minibus depend on numbers, vary by more than £2 per head, an adjustment will be arranged.  I expect to bank cheques in MARCH 2018  at the latest.

Tickets available at TASR meeting at Sarratt Village Hall on 10 April  2018 or by post around this time if you include an sae marked tickets with your booking form.

VISIT TO ASCOTT, WING, BUCKS

FRIDAY 23 MARCH 2018

The Jacobean half-timbered farm house was transformed by Leopold de Rothschild, late 19th century, into the substantial but informal English manor house. It contains an exceptional collection of paintings,  Romney, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, Cuyp, van Ostade, Jan Steen, Andrea del Soto and Tiepolo and more.  Unusually for a Rothschild house, it contains fine English 18th century furniture, and also a superb  collection of oriental porcelain from the Han dynasty to the Qing.

The extensive gardens were designed as a wedding gift by Leopold de Rothschild for his bride.  They include a topiary sundial, a Dutch garden, Monet style lilly pool, fountains and a wonderful display of Spring bulbs in an informal setting.  Tea may be had at the cafe (not National Trust)

DEPART:  11am   Moor Lane, Rickmansworth

ARRIVE:   12.15 approx for LUNCH (included) at the Cock Inn, High Street  Wing.

VISIT TO HOUSE AND GARDEN:   2pm

DEPART:  4.30pm

COST:  National Trust members  £25-00    Non NT members  £35-00

CONTACT:  Marian Trim  01923 284078  email  mail@mariantrim.plus.com

OUTING TO ASCOTT, WING,   FRIDAY 23 MARCH 2018

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COST:    NT   £25-00            Non NT. ...£35-00                  PAID      CASH/  CHEQUE

Lunch , please circle :  LASAGNE,   FISH &CHIPS,  GAMMON STEAK,  CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA,  OR   vegetarian   LENTIL & PARSNIP COTTAGE PIE with cheese

CONTACT:    Marian Trim 01923 284078         mail@mariantrim.plus.com

Mobile:  07704905271   (no texts) Emergency only