2021 Membership Application Programme of Events 2021 (Cont.) * Saturday Windsor & Eton Discover how beer is made - 17 July Brewery Tour one of Britain’s oldest traditions Membership fee is only £10.00 16:00 per annum. Self Drive * Wednesday Youth Hall Talk on Fulmer Research 21 July St Andrews ’ Institute of Hollybush Hill by Church Centre Mike Dewey Non-members are welcome to 19:30 Valuing our past… for the future (£5.00 for non-members ) attend an event for a fee of £2.00 Saturday Grounds of Visit our stand at the 127th unless otherwise stated. 24 July Stoke Poges Annual Show of the Wexham The Stoke Poges Society 12:30 School, & Fulmer Horticultural Society Rogers Lane

Please make your cheque payable Thursday Prop House Trip Down Memory Lane The aim of the Society is the 19 August Café, to: “The Stoke Poges Society” Tell your story of village preservation and study of all matters Pinewood and complete the form overleaf 10:30– 12:30 memories relating to the history and Nurseries, development of Stoke Poges; to and return to: SL3 6NB Open to all - Free * Tuesday Private Tour of this collate and preserve archive material 7 September sumptuous Hotel and artefacts, and to make it Stoke Park followed by refreshments 13:30 +++ Members Only +++ available for members and other Jane Wall interested parties. * Thursday The Fountain The Society’s Annual Dinner in TSPS Membership Secretary 14 or 21 Dining Room Memory of Thomas Gray to be at Stoke Park (250th anniversary year of his confirmed death) Guest of Honour www.e-voice.org.uk/ 143 Vine Road October to be confirmed - stoke-poges-society The Countess Howe Stoke Poges 19:00 Lord Lieutenant of Slough Buckinghamshire 3 course dinner with a glass of Chairman, Harvey Whittam SL2 4DH wine followed by tea/coffee. (Cost to follow on separate ad’) Email: [email protected] PTO *Wednesday Youth Hall Christmas social gathering with Tel: 01753 642873 15 December St Andrews’ music & song featuring Church Centre 19:30 Jennifer Harper-Jones Sub’s payable in August or on 1st September. (£5.00 for non-members) President Emeritus, Roger Askew Membership Year commences on 1st September * Booking Essential Contact Maggie T: 07478 309 044 or E-mail: [email protected] he Stoke Poges Society was formed in Programme of Events 2021

T  2009 with the aim of preserving our ancient Membership Application Thursday Costa Coffee Trip down Memory Lane village’s history and heritage and to foster 22 April Bells Hill interest in our locality. Tell your story of village I wish to join The Stoke Poges Society: 10:30 -12:30 Stoke Poges memories See our varied programme for 2021 including talks, visits and members’ Open to all - Free NAME evenings. Subject to change due to Covid- ______19 restrictions and guidance. * Sunday Eton College Eton College Natural ADDRESS 25 April Self Drive History and Museum of ______The Society is most keen to encourage Eton Life members to research their own family, or road, or any other aspect of the Village that 14:30 –17:00 Free entry ______interests them, and share their findings with * Thursday Wexham Talk on Baylis House POST CODE other members of the Society. It will make 6 May Park by Elias Kupfermann ______available archive material to members and Golf Club people around the world searching for 19:30 (£5.00 for non-members) Wexham St EMAIL______village family connections.

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confirmed once Common Rd Museum A fascinating HOME PHONE Drinking in the Parish venue re-opens SL4 6QY collection of vehicles. ______a Sunday In 1830 a new bell arrived for St Giles’ MOBILE May 11:00 Self Drive Cafe church from Whitechapel. The public had ______paid for it. To celebrate its arrival before * Thursday Baylis House Join Elias Kupfermann being fitted, it was taken to the Plough Inn 10 June and Park, for a tour of Baylis House AMOUNT PAID £ ______where it was filled to the brim with beer for Stoke Poges 14:00 and Park everyone to drink. The festivities lasted till Lane I consent to The Stoke Poges Society storing my the next morning. The Churchwarden personal information from Berry Farm provided sacks of wheat Self Drive SIGNED to secure the bell from falling over. * Tuesday Youth Hall AGM & talk about Stoke ______22 June St Andrews’ Local lore from a century ago has it that House school by the last people to be placed in the village Church Harvey Whittam 19:30 DATE ______stocks were a couple of ladies for indulging Centre (£5.00 for non-members) too much in the Five Bells pub. The pub Rogers Lane Please note that those taking part in our events do used to be at the bottom of Bells Hill near so at their own risk. to the current pond in Bells Hill Any information we hold will not be passed on to * Booking Essential recreations ground. third parties. PTO Contact Maggie T: 07478 309 044

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