2020 Membership Application Programme of Events 2020 (Cont.) * Saturday Windsor & Eton Discover how beer is made - 18 July Brewery Tour one of Britain’s oldest Membership fee is only £8.00 traditions 16:00 Self Drive per annum. This entitles you to attendance at all Society events. Saturday Stoke Poges, Visit our stand at the 127th 25 July Wexham & Annual Show in the grounds Valuing our past… for the future 12:30 Fulmer of the Stoke Poges School, Horticultural Rogers Lane Non-members are welcome to Society The Stoke Poges Society attend an event for a fee of £2.00 Tuesday Prop House Trip Down Memory Lane 18 August Café, unless otherwise stated. Tell your story of village 14:00– 16:00 Pinewood memories The aim of the Society is the Nurseries SL3 6NB Open to all preservation and study of all matters Please make your cheque payable relating to the history and * Tuesday Members Only Private Tour of this development of Stoke Poges; to to: “The Stoke Poges Society” and 8 September Stoke Park sumptuous Hotel followed by refreshments collate and preserve archive material 13:30 Visit complete the form overleaf and and artefacts, and to make it return to: * Thursday The Annual Stoke Park Dinner available for members and other 15 October Stoke Poges Our Guest of Honour is The Society Dinner Countess Howe SSStJ DL interested parties. 19:00 3 course dinner with a glass Jane Wall of wine followed by tea/coffee www.bucksinfo.net/ TSPS Membership Secretary Tuesday stoke-poges-society 24 November St Andrews Talk on 143 Vine Road Youth Hall Fulmer Research Institute 19:30 with Mike Dewey Stoke Poges *Wednesday Our Christmas Music & Song featuring Chairman, Harvey Whittam Slough 9 December Event Jennifer Harper-Jones 19:30 St Andrews Plus refreshments Email: [email protected] SL2 4DH Youth Hall Non-Members £5 Tel: 01753 642873 PTO * Booking Essential! Contact Maggie T: 07478 309 044 Or E-mail: [email protected] President Emeritus, Roger Askew he Stoke Poges Society was formed Programme of Events 2020 T in 2009 with the aim of preserving our Membership Application ancient village’s history and heritage and Tuesday 11 Members’ Talk on ‘’Burnham Beeches February Evening and Stoke Common’ I wish to join The Stoke Poges Society: to foster interest in our locality. by Dr Helen Read 19:30 St Andrews See our varied programme for 2020 Youth Hall with wine and nibbles NAME including talks, visits and members’ ____________________________________ evenings. * Sunday 22 March Eton Eton College Natural ADDRESS The Society is most keen to encourage History and Museum of ____________________________________ Self Drive Eton Life members to research their own family, or 14:30 –17:00 Free entry road, or any other aspect of the Village ____________________________________ that interests them, and share their Saturday Costa Coffee Trip down Memory Lane POST CODE findings with other members of the 25 April Stoke Poges Tell your story of village ____________________________________ Society. It will make available archive 14:00 -16:00 memories material to members and people around Open to all the world searching for village family EMAIL______________________________ connections. Tuesday St Andrews Talk on Baylis House 12 May Youth Hall by Elias Kupfermann Sefton Park 19:30 HOME PHONE _____________________________________ In the 18th Century this was known as Stoke Farm and was * Sunday Eton Wick History on Wheels Museum purchased by the 2nd Earl of Sefton as his country seat. On his MOBILE father’s death, his eldest son returned to the family seat at 24 May A fascinating collection of Croxteth Hall in Liverpool, leaving the other members of the SL4 6QY vehicles. _____________________________________ family at Sefton Park. The census of 1851 shows three of his 11:00 daughters living in the house with a household of 31 servants. Cafe In 1905 the 4th Lord Decies lived here followed by his brother AMOUNT PAID £ ____________________ the 5th Baron who completely rebuilt the South Wing. * Thursday Baylis House Join Elias Kupfermann Diamond merchant Sir Bernard Oppenheimer became the 4 June and Park Tour estate’s new owner in 1917, and after his death it was sold in for a tour of Baylis House 1922 to Sir Walter de Freece, husband of the former music hall 14:00 Self Drive and Park I consent to The Stoke Poges Society storing my star, Vesta Tilley. She lived there until 1928. personal information During the Second World War the house was requisitioned by the War Office and occupied by officers on training courses. Tuesday Our AGM A talk featuring local SIGNED In 1948 the estate was sold at public auction to Glaxo who 23 June ____________________________________ bought the house and 28 acres of the grounds. Glaxo St Andrews historical interest followed developed antibiotics, Vitamin B12 and enzymes here. It was by our AGM also the production centre for about 80% of the vaccines used 19:30 Youth Hall during the height of the Polio Vaccination campaign of the DATE __________________________ 1950’s and 60’s. * Booking Essential! GEC occupied the property from 1982 until 1989 when there Please note that those taking part in our events do was an extensive redevelopment of the site and Hitachi Data Contact Maggie T: 07478 309 044 so at their own risk. Systems took up residence in 1992. The grade two listed building is currently occupied by InPhase, with Hitachi Vantara, Or E-mail: [email protected] Any information we hold will not be passed on to Siemens Financial Services, Urenco Enrichment Company, Non-Members £2 extra unless otherwise stated. and Servier Laboratories also occupying the site. third parties. PTO Member of the British Association for Local History No. 14335 .