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Brightonnewsletter Society 10 Clermont Road Brighton BN1 6SG t. 01273-509209 e. [email protected] www.brighton-society.org.uk August 2008 A PEEP INTO THE PAST : CARLTON HILL REVISITED with slides as it is, and as it was Robert Gregory’s memories from the late 1920s onwards Tuesday 9 September 7.30 pm Stanmer Room, Brighthelm, North Road, Brighton with a small exhibition of photographs and copies of Backyard Brighton on sale @ £12.75 in aid of the Society Members of other Brighton & Hove amenity societies are welcome. Wine URGENT VARNDEAN COLLEGE: we are expecting a planning application for the demolition of Varndean College and its replacement with a glass block any day now. We are looking for volunteers to help distribute leaflets in the area of the College to alert residents to the plans, as soon as the application is registered. If you can help please get in touch by ‘phone or email. SUMMER OUTINGS WINTER LECTURES Members of the Brighton Society are welcome REGENCY SOCIETY LECTURES 2008–2009 to join in the following events: All lectures on Wednesdays at 7.00pm, The MONTPELIER & CLIFTON HILL ASSOCIATION Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove. Saturday 30 August 08 Late Summer Outing: further details on their website: www.regencysociety.org/lectures09.html The Cartoon Museum & Clarence House, London. 1 October 08 ’C.F.A. Voysey – architect, artist Sunday 5 October 08 Autumn Outing: and designer’ Dr Wendy Hitchmough, Curator, Crossing the River Thames - Brunel's tunnel and Charleston. Foster's Wobbly Bridge, London. 29 October 08 ‘Pugin and the Building of Apply to Martin Foster 11 Victoria Street Romantic Britain’ Rosemary Hill. Writer, historian Brighton BN1 3FP phone:01273 729998 and trustee of the Victorian Society 3 December 08 'Classical Antiquity and the HOVE CIVIC SOCIETY Georgian Garden' Roger White, Architectural Thursday 21 August 08 Historian. Contributing Editor to House and A full day visit to Greenwich Royal Observatory, Gardens Magazine. The National Maritime Museum and Queen’s 7 January 09 'Prehistoric and Roman Brighton House. and Hove' David Rudling, Centre for Continuing Departure 0800 from Hove Town Hall, Norton Education, University of Sussex Road entrance. Cost £22.00 4 February 09 'G.F. Bodley, J.D. Sedding and Henry Wilson, leading figures of the Gothic Thursday 18 September 08 Revival and the Arts and Crafts Movement.' Dr A visit to Hatfield House in Hertfordshire Paul M Snell, Education Curator, RIBA British Departure 0800 from Hove Town Hall, Norton Architectural Library Road entrance. Cost £32.00 4 March 09 'The City of Brighton and Hove in the For application forms and full details please 1820s: decade of transformation' Dr Sue Berry, contact Mrs Sue Ellerton 01273 746 745 Editor, Victoria County History: City of Brighton and Hove, author of Georgian Brighton and many KINGSCLIFFE SOCIETY articles about the history of the City. Wednesday 24 September 08 1 April 09 'Britain’s Lost Cities' Gavin Stamp, Visit to Chartwell Architectural Historian and Writer and, for many Cost: £27.50 non-NT members £18.00 NT years Chairman of the Twentieth Century Society. members Venue: This is the talk after the AGM and it will Depart: Hove Town Hall, Norton Rd 9.45 be in the Royal Pavilion. Old Steine (east side of gardens) 9.55 St George’s Church Kemp Town 10.05 The start time for the AGM will be 7pm. We Return: In Brighton around 6.30 hope that the talk will start at 7.30pm Contact: Sue Paskins, 10 Marlborough Street Entrance fee for talks non-members of the Brighton, BN1 3EE email: Regency Society and guests: £5 on arrival [email protected] or phone 01273- HOVE CIVIC SOCIETY 329934 (on the day for emergency only my mobile The Brighton Society is grateful to be able to join is 07980 469434) with Hove Civic Society which has organised a WINTER EXHIBITION series of lectures next winter . Details of lecture series on Hove Civic Society BRIGHT NEW LONDON ROAD website www.hovecivicsociety.org A third exhibition will be held in the winter. Half price admission to Hove Civic Society Updates and news: lectures for Brighton Society members. Please www.brightnewlondonroad.co.uk show your membership card at the door. 10 Clermont Road Brighton BN1 6SG email: [email protected] August ’08.