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Brightonnewsletter Society 10 Clermont Road Brighton BN1 6SG t. 01273-509209 e. [email protected] w. www.brighton-society.org.uk June 2007 STOP PRESS! It is understood that the Birdcage Bandstand’s copper roof has blown off and has been replaced with roofing felt THE BRIGHTON SOCIETY’S AGM Members of other Brighton Society. Please take your Brighton Society societies are invited to attend the AGM of the Society membership card - issued by the Hon Treasurer when which will be held at 7.30 pm on Thursday 28 June in you pay your subscription - with you. the Stanmer Room, Brighthelm, North Road, Brighton HOVE CIVIC SOCIETY Chairman Malcom Dawes will show slides of some of has organised the following outings this summer the proposals on which the Society has commented during the past year, and some of the changes which Thursday 26 July 2007 have taken place in our city. a visit to the Bank of England Museum in Threadneedle Street Please come and add your comments depart Hove Town Hall (Norton Rd) at 8.30am THE BRIGHTON SOCIETY’S SUMMER WALK will We have a one-hour tour of the Bank of England take place on Monday 23 July 2007 at 8 pm Museum outlining its history from 1694 to its modern day The walk will start from outside the Jubilee library role. There are displays of books, documents, silver, explore the old and the new in North Laine and finish banknotes, coins and gold. soon after 9 pm. Lunch is in the City at you own expense Robert Gregory feels unable to conduct the Brighton In the afternoon: Society walk this year, so this time it will be led by Apsley House, ‘No 1 London’, designed by Robert Geoff Mead. We look forward to seeing you there. Adam. Wellington made this his home, enlarging it and filling it with a wonderful collection. Across the road is the THE BRIGHTON SOCIETY is grateful to be able to join Wellington Arch where we will see the museum and have in with several other societies, both local and national, tea before returning to Hove. with their summer visits and winter lectures. Price £31 (English Heritage members £28. The following organisations welcome members of the Closing date for application 24 June 2007 Wednesday 19th September 2007 visit to Beaulieu REGENCY SOCIETY OF BRIGHTON & HOVE depart Hove Town Hall (Norton Rd) at 8.30 am www.regencysociety.co.uk/ A full day visit to Beaulieu, ancestral home of the Meetings are fully detailed on website. Montagus since 1538. Our entrance fee covers all the The provisional programme for winter lectures, held at attractions, which include The Domus with its exhibition the Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, are as of monastic life, the Palace House and Gardens, follows: Beaulieu Abbey and Exhibition, Buckler’s Hard, the Wednesday 3 October 2007 at 7 pm Jonathan Maritime Museum and, of course, the Motor Museum. Woodham on Brighton Between the Wars Price £30 Wednesday 7 November 2007 at 7 pm Nick Lomax on Closing date for application 20 August A Brighton architect designs the Brighton library NB All the above prices include entrance fees and Wednesday 5 December 2007 at 7 pm Lars Tharp on drivers’ tips; also train fare for the Watercress Line The Willett Collection of 19th century ceramics excursion. Wednesday 9 January 2008 at 7 pm John McKean Application forms from: Ninka Willcock, on Rewriting Banister Fletcher’s History of 4 Terminus Street, Brighton BN1 3PE or on the Brighton Architecture Society website Wednesday 6 February 2008 at 7 pm Christopher Winter lecture series on website: Bradley-Hole on Town Gardens by the Sea www.hovecivicsociety.org Wednesday 5 March 2008 at 7 pm Catherine Moriarty MONTPELIER & CLIFTON HILL ASSOCIATION & Duncan McNeill on Introduction to the James Gray collection and the archiving of photographs Meetings and outings not detailed on website Wednesday 2 April 2008 at 7 pm Gavin Henderson, www.montpelierandcliftonhill.org/ the Brighton Youth Orchestra & Andy Sherwood on Thursday 14 June 2007 at 7.15 pm Lord Baker: Regency Music discussed and performed (venue The Illustrated lecture on George IV - a Life in Caricature Royal Pavilion) Book signing 6.15 - 7.00 pm Charge: £5 to non-members of the Regency Society Admission by ticket only - maximum 2 tickets. £5 for NORTH LAINE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION non-members of the M&CHA Venue: Brighton & Hove High School, Montpelier Road, Brighton Details of meetings and outings in NLCA Newsletter. not currently on website Sunday 15 July Summer outing to Danson House and Cobham Hall. Leaving Powis Square at 8.15 am website: www.nlcaonline.org.uk/ and Brampton Road at 9 am. Contact: Jackie Fuller, 21 Pelham Square, Brighton Saturday 21 July 2007 6 - 9 pm Summer Garden BN1 4ET: [email protected] Party THE BRIGHTON SOCIETY has recently become a at the Old Vicarage, Temple Gardens, Brighton £7.50 - member of the children under 12 free FRIENDS OF EAST SUSSEX RECORD OFFICE. For information on both the above events contact The next event is: Martin Foster Saturday 15 September 2007 2-5pm 11 Victoria Street, Brighton BN1 3FP Tel: 01273 729998 ‘Researching the history of your house’ CLIFTON MONTPELIER & POWIS COMMUNITY at the East Sussex Record Office, cost £10 ASSOCIATION Saturday 13 October 2007 Visit to Great Maxfield, www.cmpca.org.uk/ Guestling, a timber framed house, cost £3 Check their latest newsletter for meetings. Contact: Events Secretary, Friends of East Sussex Record Office. 30 Preston Mansions, Preston Park KINGSCLIFFE SOCIETY Avenue, Brighton BN1 6HP www.homepages.pavilion.co.uk/nrob/ Meetings and visits not detailed on website, but are THE BRIGHTON SOCIETY has recently joined the enclosed with their newsletter. following national organisations. Brighton Society Visits are open to non-members, Brighton Society members are eligible to join in their events members are welcome. They book on a first come first served basis. If they get more than anticipated they get THE GEORGIAN GROUP: a larger coach. The following outings are planned: www.georgiangroup.org.uk/ Wednesday 6 June 2007 Syon House and Park A bit hard to find meetings and outings on website. Wednesday 4 July 2007 Basildon Park Brighton Society members should follow the Wednesday 22 August 2007 Gilbert White’s house ‘Forthcoming Events’ and ‘Events by Month’ links Selbourne THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY Wednesday 19 September 2007 Titsey Place Contact: Vivienne Carter www.victorian-society.org.uk/ 16 Park Street Brighton BN2 2BS Easy to find meetings and outings on website!.