THE ARTS FOR BERKHAMSTED www.berkhamstedartstrust.org.uk Registered Charity No: 273616 2018/2019 SEASON September page 1 Venues are in Local code 01442 applies unless otherwise Berkhamsted stated. Tickets are available on the door unless unless other- SEPTEMBER 2018 sold out. DC = Dacorum Card accepted wise stated Thu Heritage Open Day (HOD): Repton’s Ashridge Tour Main entrance to www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk 6 Sep Marking the bi-centenery of Repton’s death. Repton was commissioned by B’sted Lcl Hist & Ashridge House Free but booking essential as numbers are strictly & Thu the 7th Duke of Bridgewater to design gardens to go with his new gothic Mus Soc 14:00 limited. [email protected] 865158 13 Sep style mansion Thu 6 Sep Castle. Tours Tour www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk & Fri 7 HOD: A Walk Back in Time 6th: 10:30 B’sted Lcl Hist & Free but please book in advance. & Thu A guided tour of the historic town centre 7th: 15:00 Mus Soc [email protected] 865158 13 Sep 13th: 10:30 Top of Castle Fri Hill, B’sted Tour HOD: A Walk into the Past – Berkhamsted Place www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk 7 Sep Place, HP4 1HQ. B’sted Lcl Hist & This tour takes you into what remains of this once very large Elizabethan Free but please book your place. & Sat Tours Mus Soc mansion. It includes a visit to the Great Barn, probably older still [email protected] 865158 8 Sep 7th: 10:00 8th: 14.00 Tour Bank Mill Bridge www.berkhamstedcitizens.org.uk HOD: Lost Wharves of Berkhamsted Sat B’sted Citizens near Old Mill www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Follow the lost wharves along this canal tour. The canal led to the growth of 8 Sep Association & B’sted Lcl Pub Free but booking required in advance industry and the expansion of Berkhamsted in Victorian times Hist & Mus Soc 10:00 - 11:30 [email protected] 865158 Haydn’s Creation St. Peter’s www.berkhamstedchoral.co.uk Sat Choral Mary Nelson Soprano,Colin Judson Tenor,Dyfed Wyn Evans Baritone, Graham Church Tickets Brown & Merry, High St. 8 Sep B’sted Choral Soc Wili Conductor. Fresh from our summer performances at Tewkesbury Abbey 19:30 £15 (under 18 free) 07500 431643 and the cathedrals of Gloucester and Hereford Old Hall HOD: Old Hall and Chapel Berkhamsted School Tour Berkhamsted www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Sun Visit the original school building of 1544, the largest schoolroom in the country B’sted Lcl Hist & School Castle Free but please book your place in advance 9 Sep at the time. The beautiful Victorian chapel is modelled on a chapel in Venice and Mus Soc Street. Tours [email protected] 865158 designed by CH Rew 10:30 and 14:30 HOD: Remembering the Fallen of WW1 Entertainment Rectory Lane www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Sun An afternoon of poetry, drama and music which will complement the B’sted Lcl Hist & Cemetery Free but please book your place in advance 9 Sep ‘Memorials to the Fallen’ (16 Sep) and the people of Berkhamsted in WW1. Mus Soc 14:00 - 17:00 [email protected] 865158 Come and see the transformation taking place Tour HOD: St Peter’s Church and Court House St. Peter’s www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Sun B’sted Lcl Hist & The 13thC. church has an extensive history and many memorials depicting the Church Free but please book your place in advance 9 Sep Mus Soc history of the town and its people, the Court House is Tudor 15:00 [email protected] 865158 Tour HOD: Inns of Court Then (1914-18) and Now Rear of the www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Sun B’sted Lcl Hist & During WW1 the IOCOTC was stationed here, this tour takes you to some of Station. Tours Free but please book your place in advance 9 Sep Mus Soc their haunts and shows you with the aid of photographs what it was once like 11:00 and 12:00 [email protected] 865158 Tour HOD: Berkhamsted Town Hall www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Sun Town Hall B’sted Lcl Hist & Tour of the Town Hall Market House, Assembly Hall and rooms for the Free but please book your place in advance 9 Sep 11:0 0 Mus Soc Mechanics’ Institute. Open 10.15-13.30. Tour at 11.00 [email protected] 865158 Castle. Tours Tour HOD: Berkhamsted Castle www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Sun 10:30 B’sted Lcl Hist & This Norman motte and bailey castle has an extensive history of royal Free but please book your place in advance 9 Sep 14:00 Mus Soc associations [email protected] 865158 16:00 HOD: Ashlyns School – Former Foundling Hospital Ashlyns School Tour www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Sun This gives you the opportunity to learn what life was like for the children who reception. Tours B’sted Lcl Hist & Free but booking for this tour is absolutely essential 9 Sep grew up there during 1935-55. Make the most of it since few former foundlings 13:30 and Mus Soc [email protected] 865158 remain. Booking essential 15:30 Tour HOD: Berkhamsted Castle Castle. Tours www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Fri B’sted Lcl Hist & This Norman motte and bailey castle has an extensive history of royal 10:30 and Free but please book yout place in advance 14 Sep Mus Soc associations 14:00 [email protected] 865158 DHT Museum HOD: DHT Museum Store Tour Store (behind www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Sat Here collections from the different areas of Dacorum are kept in museum B’sted Lcl Hist & Civic Centre via Free but booking essential as numbers are 15 Sep conditions. They are not normally open to the public. The largest collection is Mus Soc Clarence Rd) restricted [email protected] 865158 that belonging to Berkhamsted. Inaccessible to people with walking dfficulties 10:00 www.berkhamstedartstrust.org.uk 2018/2019 SEASON September page 2 HOD: Memorials to the Fallen of WW1 Tour West door of St www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Sun Visit both the Town and St Peter’s Memorial, Berkhamsted School, Baptist B’sted Lcl Hist & Peter’s Church Free but please book your place in advance 16 Sep Church and British Legion Rolls of Honour and the War Commission graves in Mus Soc 15:00 [email protected] 865158 the cemetery Tour Front of the www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Sun HOD: Post A Letter B’sted Lcl Hist & Station Free but please book your place in advance 16 Sep This tour tells you something of the postal history of the town Mus Soc 10:30 [email protected] 865158 Mon Novels of Julian Barnes Friends’ Meeting www.wea.org.uk Course 17 Sep to An introduction to the novels of Julian Barnes and his writing with some House £45 for a 6 week course. 2 hours a week. WEA B’sted 22 Oct biographical details 10:30 - 12:30 0300 3033464 info 872432 Lady Bird Mon www.berkhamstedfilmsociety.co.uk Film Humour and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage Civic Centre 17 & Tue Annual sub: joint £65, single £35. B’sted Film Soc daughter. Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) fights against her mom but is exactly like 20:00 18 Sep Visitors £5 at door (no conc) 863155 her. Dir: Greta Gerwig/2017/USA/Cert 15/94min Graham Greene Festival: Guided Walk Rear entrance of Thu 20 A town walk of about one hour, led by Brian Shepherd, with readings from the Station. www.grahamgreenebt.org Festival & Fri 21 A Sort of Life, The Human Factor and The Captain and the Enemy. If wet, Tours £5 (under 21 and DC free) Graham Greene BT Sep illustrated talk with readings in the Court House on Thu and the Town Hall on 20th :14:15 [email protected] 07988 560496 Fri 21st :12.45 Graham Greene Festival: Supper and Film Town Hall www.grahamgreenebt.org Thu Festival May We Borrow Your Husband? (Yorkshire Television/1986/101 mins). Dir Bob Film 19:15 Supper and film £28, supper only £18, film only 20 Sep Graham Greene BT Mahoney, starring Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Attenborough. Intro by Quentin Supper from £10 (under 21 and DC free, excludes supper) Falk. A pre-film two-course supper can be purchased 17.15 [email protected] 07988 560496 Graham Greene Festival: Morning Talks www.grahamgreenebt.org Fri Festival The Third Man Museum by Karin Höfler and Gerhard Strassgschwandtner. Town Hall £16 (under 21 and DC free) 21 Sep Graham Greene BT A Journey With Maps: Adapting Stamboul Train by Graham Greene for BBC 09:45 - 12:15 [email protected] 07988 560496 Radio 4: Jeremy Front interviewed by Dr Martyn Sampson Graham Greene Festival: Afternoon Talks www.grahamgreenebt.org Fri Festival Graham Greene: Treachery and Trust by Monsignor Roderick Strange (David Town Hall £16 (under 21 and DC free) 21 Sep Graham Greene BT Pearce Memorial Talk). The Book that Greene Never Wrote: To Beg I Am 14:30 - 17:00 [email protected] 07988 560496 Ashamed by Emeritus Professor François Gallix Graham Greene Festival: Music and Film www.grahamgreenebt.org Fri Festival Songs and music by Matt Saxton and band, inspired by Graham Greene. Film Civic Centre £10 (under 21 and DC free) 21 Sep Graham Greene BT Under the Garden (Thames Television/1976/50 mins), with Denholm Elliott, 19:30 - 21:30 [email protected] 07988 560496 Arthur Lowe and Vivian Pickles. Intro by Mike Hill St Peter’s kulturelles Oktoberfest www.stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk Fri Wine tasting Court House Entente Cordial winetasting to commemorate the end of WW1 – wines with Tickets Parish Office single £12.50 21 Sep Cowper Soc 20:00 - 22:00 food from UK, France and Germany [email protected] 878227 Graham Greene Festival: Morning Talks Deans’ Hall, www.grahamgreenebt.org Sat Festival Adventures in the Greene Trade: Collecting Greene Rarities and Stalking the B’sted School £17 (under 21 and DC free) 22 Sep Graham Greene BT Man Himself by John Baxter.