MEMBERS’ CENTRE AND FRIENDS’ GROUP EVENTS SPRING/SUMMER 2018
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ABERDEEN AND DISTRICT MEMBERS’ The Friends of Alloa Tower act to support the at the interval. property and arrange a number of events. CENTRE (SC000109) Please contact Isobel Munro for further Judith Falconer, Programme Secretary details. ARDUAINE FRIENDS Tel: 01224 938150 Wednesday 25 April, 7.30pm: AGM Rachel Ross, Secretary/Treasurer Email: [email protected] Tel: 01852 200233 Sunday 3–Wednesday 6 June: Holiday to ANGUS MEMBERS’ CENTRE Email: [email protected] Yorkshire, based in Harrogate (SC024891) For more information on the Arduaine Saturday 30 June: Day excursion to Tarves, Joyce Cooper, Membership Secretary Friends, contact Rachel Ross or call Arduaine Haddo House and the Peterhead Prison Garden on 01852 200366. Museum Tel: 01674 676783 Email: [email protected] ARGYLL MEMBERS’ GROUP NORTH EAST ABERDEENSHIRE All afternoon talks are held in the Guide (SC024786) MEMBERS’ CENTRE (SC024227) Hall, Myre car park, Forfar at 2.30pm. Talks are open to everyone, not just members. Donald Shell, Secretary Margaret Alexander, Chairperson The admission charge of £4 includes light Tel: 01631 562688 Tel: 01651 872659 refreshments after the meeting. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Sunday 13 May, 1.30–3.30pm: Spring Plant Sale, House of Dun. Come along and Please contact Donald Shell for more details April (date tbc), 7.30pm: AGM at Fyvie on upcoming events. Castle, followed by talk by Ian Mitchell replace any plants you may have lost over Davidson (Chartered Building Surveyor, the winter at bargain prices. There will be a wide selection of perennials, grasses, shrubs Heritage Consultant and visiting professor at AYRSHIRE MEMBERS’ CENTRE and rockery plants grown by the Members’ Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen) (SC000387) Centre gardeners. Provisional visits: Blairs Museum; John Rattenbury, Chairman Cruickshank Botanic Garden on the King’s Sunday 16 September, 1.30–3.30pm: College campus of the University of Autumn Plant Sale, House of Dun. There will Tel: 01292 264344 be a wide selection of perennials, shrubs and Aberdeen Email: [email protected] fruit bushes, as well as produce grown by Provisional events: An event with a herbal the Members’ Centre gardeners and other Our talks take place in the Education Pavilion theme at Pitmedden Garden volunteers. next to Burns Cottage in Alloway. Tea/coffee is available from 7pm, with talks starting Friday 21 September, 6.45pm: Gala Evening at 7.30pm and lasting around an hour. All at Brechin Castle. We will be welcomed by FRIENDS OF ALLOA TOWER visitors are welcome. (SC017733) the Earl of Dalhousie to his home. Robert Lovie will compere and entertain us, Thursday 19 April: ‘Jean Armour’ – talk by Isobel Munro, Chairperson supported by clarsach player Seonaid Birse Sheona Cameron. Sheona will introduce us Tel: 01259 762889 and poetry recitals from Sheila Mann. to Jean Armour, Robert Burns’s wife, true There will be a glass of wine on arrival and a love and most faithful companion. Email: isobel.munro11menstrie@btinternet. generous cocktail buffet with tea and coffee com Thursday 17 May (members only): AGM followed by ‘The Eglinton Tournament’ – Quality Street by J M Barrie Tel: 01223 245357 or 07889 657590 talk by Stanley Sarsfield (followed by cheese Tuesday 3 July: Mugdock Mystery Meander Email: [email protected] and wine). Stanley will tell us about the 1839 Eglinton Tournament, a re-enactment of Friday 6 July: Outing to South Queensferry All talks are held at Newnham College, a medieval joust, funded and organised for a boat trip and visit to Culross where there is usually ample parking nearby. The ticket price is £7 if pre-booked, or £8 by Archibald, Earl of Eglinton. Many Tuesday 14 August: Walk at Campsie Glen to on the door. Arrive at 7.30pm for wine and distinguished visitors took part, including Lennox Castle along the John Muir Way Prince Louis Napoleon, the future Napoleon conversation, followed by the talk at 8pm. Wednesday 22 August: Outing to Bowhill III. Wednesday 25 April: ‘Six Scottish Cheeses’ House, Selkirk – talk and tasting by Jacky Sutton-Adam Thursday 13 September: Outing to Gosford from the Cambridge Cheese Company. She BANFF & MORAY MEMBERS’ CENTRE House and the stained-glass windows of St plans to bring six of the best for us to taste. (SC024693) Mary’s Church, Haddington Wednesday 23 May: ‘John Buchan’ – talk Stuart MacKenzie, Secretary by Dr Kate Macdonald. Journalist, diplomat, Tel: 01343 843248 FRIENDS OF BRODICK CASTLE & president of the Oxford Union and Governor General of Canada, this Perth-born man is Email: [email protected] COUNTRY PARK (SC033817) best remembered as a master storyteller, Thursday 12 April: Spring lunch, AGM and Marion Melvin, Secretary/Treasurer especially for The Thirty-Nine Steps. Kate will speaker – held at the Mansefield Hotel, Tel: 01770 810693 tell us about his life and times and his last Elgin short story collection The Runagates Club. Email: [email protected] Friday 18–Monday 21 May: Spring tour to Kate is a Visiting Fellow at the University Falkirk and Fife The Friends of Brodick Castle & Country of Reading and has taught in universities Park organise a number of events and across Europe. She has published many Provisional June: Coach outing (tbc) support the property through fundraising works on Buchan and other authors. and volunteering. For more details contact Saturday 14 July, 10am–12 noon: Coffee Wednesday 27 June: ‘Scottish Whaling’ Marion Melvin. morning – Forres Town Hall – talk by Malcolm Archibald. From 1750 Provisional August: Coach trip to Pitlochry until 1914, Scottish ports sent ships to hunt Festival Theatre FRIENDS OF BROUGHTON HOUSE & whales. It was a time of huge profits and GARDEN (SC012686) terrible losses as ships vanished under the ice and men died of frostbite. It was a time FRIENDS OF BARRY MILL Mike Duguid, Chairman of heroes such as Captain William Adamson who freed an ice-bound ship, of mutiny at The Friends of Barry Mill act to support the Tel: 01557 860040 sea, and of flourishing friendships with the property and are involved in a number of Email: [email protected] Inuit. events. Please see nts.org.uk/events for Barry Mill events or call the mill on 01241 Gwen Shaw JP, Hon Secretary 856761. Tel: 01557 330239 FRIENDS OF CRARAE (SC033244) Email: [email protected] Fiona Rice, Secretary BEARSDEN & MILNGAVIE MEMBERS’ All events are held at Broughton House, friendsofcrarae.com CENTRE (SC025422) 12 High Street, Kirkcudbright. Please Please visit the What’s New section of our Laura Clow, Secretary book tickets on 01557 330437 to avoid disappointment. Talks are £5 for Friends; £6 website to find out more details about our Tel: 0141 570 1165 for visitors. upcoming events. Email: [email protected] Thursday 5 April, 7pm for 7.30pm: ‘A Tuesday 17 and Sunday 22 April, 10am: Chance to see the National Plant Collection Sandra Cunningham, Events Secretary Walk through Paradise – historic artists working in Kirkcudbrightshire and the New of Nothofagus (southern beeches) held at Tel: 07854 124927 Kirkcudbright Galleries’ – talk by Hildegarde Crarae Garden Email: [email protected] Berwick, Arts Officer Afternoon and evening talks are held at Thursday 3 May, 7pm for 7.30pm: ‘Project FRIENDS OF CULZEAN (SC037983) Bearsden Burgh Hall, 69 Drymen Road, Reveal: a study of the artefacts of the Hornel John Rattenbury, Secretary Bearsden G61 3QT. Collection’ – talk by Wendy Turner, National Trust for Scotland Tel: 01292 264344 Thursday 5 April: City walk around Glasgow’s infamous ‘Square Mile of Murder’ Thursday 7 June, 7pm for 7.30pm: ‘Hornel’s Email: [email protected] Family & Genealogy’ – talk by Maggie Tuesday 17 April: Tour of the Charles Rennie The Friends of Culzean act to support the Torrance, Visitor Services Assistant at Mackintosh 150th anniversary exhibition at property and arrange events for volunteers. Broughton House Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow Please contact John Rattenbury for further Thursday 6 September, 7pm for 7.30pm: details about this group. Tuesday 24 April, 7.30 pm: AGM with ‘The Treasures of the Burns Collection, speaker Jill Carrick – Deputy Chair of the Broughton House Library’ – illustrated talk Board of Trustees and viewing of some of the Burns Collection EAST FIFE MEMBERS’ CENTRE Thursday 3 May: Walk at Bracklinn Falls, by Russell Bryden, Librarian and Mike (SC024846) Callander Duguid, former World President of the Burns Barbara Fotheringham, Programme Monday 14–Friday 18 May: Annual holiday Federation Co-ordinator to the northern Lake District Tel: 01333 310153 Thursday 7 June: Walk at Ben A’an from Loch CAMBRIDGE FRIENDS OF THE NTS Email: [email protected] Achray (strenuous) Jim Stewart, Chairman Please check our website for updates: Saturday 16 June: Outing to Pitlochry Donald Douglas, Membership Secretary nts-efmc.org.uk Theatre for a matinee performance of
nts.org.uk Monthly coffee mornings: second Monday Tuesday 14 August: Outing to Manderston, Hoyle. Tickets: £10 pp. of the month at 10.30am, Kellie Castle Duns, Berwickshire Wednesday 13 June, 11.30am: *Orchid Lunch tearoom (9 April, 14 May, 11 June, 9 July, 13 Tuesday 11 September: Outing to Culzean at Kirkland, Colvend DG5 4QE. August, 10 September and 8 October). All Castle, Maybole, Ayrshire Tickets: £15 pp. welcome; booking not necessary. Friday 6 July, 5.30pm: Reeling practice – Wednesday 18 April, 10.30am: Annual coffee Anwoth House, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2EF morning at The Scores Hotel, St Andrews EASTWOOD & DISTRICT MEMBERS’ with ‘A Sculptural Heritage’ talk from Alan CENTRE (SC024601) Saturday 7 July, 7.30pm: *The Galloway Fling! – Supper & Reeling at Anwoth House, Beattie Herriot, DA MRBS (sculptor). Please Mary MacLennan, Secretary book in advance. Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2EF. The night will Tel: 0141 639 5411 be hosted by Major Willy Peto, and the dress Tuesday 22 May: Outing to Glasgow to visit code is Black Tie/Highland Dress. Tickets: two Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson buildings. Email: [email protected] £50 pp. Booking is essential. Illustrated talks are held in Clarkston Halls at June (tbc): Talk from Susan Thores, Head 7.30pm. Talks are free to Centre members. Gardener at Falkland Palace, followed by a Non-members pay an admission fee of £2, GLASGOW MEMBERS’ CENTRE tour of the garden. Booking is essential. which is refundable upon joining the Centre. (SC024399) Thursday 26 July: Guided tour of For Holmwood events, please check Jean Currie, Treasurer (excursion enquiries) nts.org.uk. Hospitalfield, Arbroath, including visit to Tel: 0141 954 9668 Mortuary Chapel and Western Cemetery. Thursday 12 April: ‘A Heritage in Stone’ – Email: [email protected] Booking is essential. illustrated talk by Ian Davidson telling of Monday 10–Thursday 13 September: people and places encountered during 33 Jean Sutherland, Secretary (all other Residential trip to Aberdeenshire castles years with the National Trust for Scotland, enquiries) where he worked in various roles but chiefly and gardens Email: [email protected] as Surveyor. Day excursions leave from North Hanover Wednesday 18 April: Visit to Chatelherault Street. WEST FIFE MEMBERS’ GROUP Hunting Lodge, with afternoon tea served in (SC025426) the Banqueting Hall All lectures are held at 2pm in the Quaker Meeting House, 38 Elmbank Crescent, Alison Henderson, Secretary Tuesday 15 May: Outing to Geilston Garden, Glasgow G2 4PS. Free to Glasgow Centre with lunch at Rosslea Hall Hotel, Rhu Tel: 01383 737233 members; visitors pay £2 per lecture. Thursday 7 June: Visit to the Kelpies, with Email: [email protected] Wednesday 11 April: ‘Restoration of the dinner at the Gallery Restaurant, Stirling Fiona Moore, Membership Secretary Willow Tearooms’ – talk by John Sanders, architect Tel: 01383 626009 EDINBURGH MEMBERS’ CENTRE Wednesday 25 April, 10.30am: Coach tour to Email: [email protected] (SC025732) Lomond Shores and Ross Priory Tuesday 17 April,7.30pm: AGM in the Abbey Peter Westbrook, Membership Secretary Tuesday 22 May, 8.45am: Coach tour to Church Hall, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway and Rosslyn followed by a talk on ‘Alexander Thomson Tel: 0131 539 2826 Chapel and his Buildings’ by Mark Baines (Chairman Email: [email protected] of the Alexander Thomson Society) Wednesday 20 June, 8.45am: Coach tour to All talks (and AGM) are held at Augustine Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere Thursday 10 May: Outing to Glenkinchie United Church, 41-43 George IV Bridge, Thursday 19 July, 9am: Coach tour to Distillery in Pencaitland and Lennoxlove Edinburgh EH1 1EL. Free to Centre members. Melrose and Monteviot House House Visitors are welcome for a £3 donation at the Tuesday 12 June: Outing to Abbotsford door. A hearing induction loop is available. Thursday 16 August, 8.45am: Coach tour to Berwick-upon-Tweed Thursday 12 July: Outing to Rosslyn Chapel Provisional visits: Aberdeen area (4 days), and Newhailes House and Gardens Floors Castle, Loch Katrine, Monteviot Friday 14–Tuesday 18 September: Autumn House, Alloa Tower, House of the Binns and holiday based in Chester Wednesday 8 August: Outing to House of Bo’ness, the frigate HMS Unicorn and V&A Dun Dundee Monday 3–Friday 7 September: Members’ FRIENDS OF GREENBANK GARDEN annual holiday to Liverpool and Merseyside (SC024113) GALLOWAY MEMBERS’ GROUP Aileen Johnston, Secretary (SC026207) Email: [email protected] EAST LOTHIAN MEMBERS’ CENTRE Lady Ross, Chairperson (SC026085) The Friends support a number of events Email: [email protected] Margaret Russell, Membership Secretary at Greenbank. The full list is available by Mrs G Shaw JP, Secretary visiting nts.org.uk/events. For more details, Tel: 01875 853370 please contact the garden on 0141 616 2266. Tel: 01557 330239 Email: [email protected] Your involvement at any of our events would Email: [email protected] be most welcome. Wednesday 18 April: Outing to the Devil’s Porridge Museum, Eastriggs Booking is essential for events marked * Tuesday 15 May: Outing to the Georgian Friday 13 April, 7pm: *Gardeners’ Question HIGHLAND MEMBERS’ CENTRE House, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh Time at Threave Visitor Centre. Tickets: £8 for (SC006203) members; £12 for non-members. Thursday 21 June: Outing to Paxton House, Fiona Mackenzie, Secretary Berwick-upon-Tweed Wednesday 16 May, 3pm: *Bluebell talk, Tel: 01349 861023 walk & tea at Carstramon House, Gatehouse Tuesday 10 July: Outing to Scone Palace, of Fleet DG7 2BL – hosted by Mr & Mrs Neil Email: [email protected] Perth
nts.org.uk Thursday 5 April, 7.30pm: AGM at Culloden Thursday 21 June: Theatre visit (production Forthside car park near Gabe’s Diner. Visitor Centre followed by a talk from Derek yet to be decided) Thursday 19 April, 8.45am–5pm: Visit to Alexander, archaeologist for the National Provisional June: Visit to Kneller Hall Scotland’s Secret Bunker Trust for Scotland Tuesday 17 July: Visit to London Transport Thursday 31 May, 1.20–4.40pm: Visit to Museum Kilsyth Gardens THE FRIENDS OF HUGH MILLER Provisional August: Summer walk – Brunel’s Wednesday 13 June, 1.10–4.40pm: Visit to (SC037351) London Queensferry Centre & Crossing Martin Gostwick, Secretary Provisional September: Visit to Massey Tuesday 7 August, 9am–6pm: Visit to Tel: 01381 600301 Shaw Bowhill House and Gardens Email: [email protected] Thursday 20 September, 10.15am–6.30pm: Outing to Pitlochry Theatre to see Cabaret The Friends of Hugh Miller act to promote PERTH & KINROSS MEMBERS’ the legacy of Hugh Miller and support GROUP (SC011062) his birthplace cottage and museum in Mary Willington, Chairperson ST KILDA CLUB (SC034266) Cromarty. Contact Martin Gostwick for more details. Tel: 01738 813787 David Ackroyd, Secretary Saturday 16 June, 10.30am: AGM, Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] followed at 2pm by the Hugh Miller All talks are held at William Soutar Theatre, Please contact David Ackroyd for further Writing Competition Prize Giving at the A K Bell Library, 2–8 York Place, Perth. information. Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton’s Close, Admission is £5 for group members; £6 for Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT visitors. Thursday 19 April, 7.30pm: AGM followed FRIENDS OF INVEREWE by talk Jeremy Fenton, Chairman Wednesday 16 May: Outing to Monzie Castle Garden and Innerpeffray Library, Email: friendsofinverewegardens@gmail. near Crieff (day trip by cars) com Sunday 10 June–Tuesday 12 June: Visit to To find out more about our events, contact Inverewe House and Garden (NTS) and the Friends using the email address above. House of Gruinard Garden (2 night holiday You can also contact the garden directly by coach) on 01445 781229 or visit facebook.com/ InvereweGarden Wednesday 11 July: Outing to Floors Castle, near Kelso (day trip by coach) Wednesday 12 September: Outing to Pollok LANARKSHIRE MEMBERS’ GROUP House (NTS) coffee shop, followed by (SC024465) Dumfries House tour (day trip by coach) Members’ Centres and Liz Craig, Outings Secretary Friends’ Groups have been supporting the National Tel: 01355 221412 FRIENDS OF ROBERT BURNS Email: [email protected] BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM (SC043931) Trust for Scotland for Saturday 21 April: Outing to Dumfries House John Rattenbury more than 40 years. For more information, please Saturday 19 May: Outing to the Tenement Tel: 01292 264344 House and the National Piping Centre contact the Members’ Email: [email protected] Saturday 16 June: Outing to Aberfoyle and Centre Support Officer For ticket information and the latest Loch Katrine for a sail on the Sir Walter Scott information on our programme, please on 0131 458 0200 or email steamship go to our website: friendsofrbbm.org.uk/ [email protected]. future-events LONDON MEMBERS’ CENTRE Saturday 26 May, 7–9.30pm: Spring Ceilidh You can also find out more (SC027207) – an evening of live music with Scottish at nts.org.uk or find us on country dancing and songs, complete with a Bill Kemp, Visit Co-ordinator dance caller (complete beginners welcome!) Facebook at facebook.com/ Tel: 0208 642 1491 Advance booking is essential – tickets £10pp memberscentresNTS. Email: [email protected] (light refreshments included). This information is correct at the Charles Hope, Membership Secretary Tickets can be purchased at the museum or at burnsmuseum.org.uk nearer the time. time of publication but all events Email: [email protected] are subject to change. Visitors are Wednesday 18 April: Visit to West Norwood welcome although some events are Cemetery STIRLING MEMBERS’ CENTRE for group members only and prior (SC025499) Tuesday 24 April: Visit to Charterhouse booking may be necessary. Please Sandy & Margaret Moreland, Joint check before attending. May: Spring walk – City of London Gardens Secretaries & Squares (provisional) Tel: 01259 761700 Wednesday 16 May: AGM, followed by lunch The majority of Members’ Centres and and ‘Shetland’ talk by Alexander Bennett Email: [email protected] Friends’ Groups are individual charities Wednesday 6–Monday 11 June: Spring tour All events take place in St Ninian’s Church supporting the National Trust for to Shetland Hall, Stirling and all outings start from Scotland, SC007410
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