Events Programme 2022 - 2023
2024
23rd March 5pm - 9pm Exclusive tour of
Westminster Abbey
£80 including Dinner and Musical
Interludes from the Purcell Club
This tour is limited to 30 people and does not include transport to
the Abbey, which is relatively straightforward from Harpenden and
much quicker than a coach journey. Dinner in the café is a 2 course
set meal starting at 5.30pm. (menu available shortly).
The tour commences at 7 pm. At each significant site in the
Cathedral, the Purcell Club will sing an appropriate piece, ranging
from the 16th to the 21st century, finishing off with an organ solo
at the final stop.
If you wish to join the tour please sign up soon as posible. The
organisers will require payment in early February so we are asking
you to pay as soon as possible after booking your place. (The
Chairwoman is gutted that she can't go because she'll be singing the St Matthew
Passion in St Albans Abbey that evening - a recommendation if you
can't get to this event!)
Trip to Devon 22nd - 25th September 2024
More details about this proposed trip and possible visits:
3 nights at Livermead Cliff Hotel. £549 per person sharing plus a
supplement of £30 for single. Travel, dinner, bed and breakfast and
all entry fees included.
Outline itinerary:
Sun 22 ; depart, break journey at Wells.
Mon23 : am Powderham Castle , Lunch Torquay harbour, pm Torre
Abbey (other possibilities: Buckfast Abbey, Kents Cavern,
Paignton Model Village, house of Marbles)
Tues 24: “Round Robin” Tour consisting of boat trip at 10.30 from
Totnes to Dartmouth (2 hrs), then Ferry to Kingswear , and 14.45
Steam train back to Paignton.
Wed 25: return to Harpenden, visiting possibly Malmesbury (Abbey)
or Tewkesbury
The River
Dart at Totnes
Reports on previous events
- 2023
- Visit to Chiswick House & Gardens
- 2 Cities Visit
- Visit to the Cezanne Exhibition at the Tate Modern
- 2022
- Visit to the Middle Temple
- Trip to Rochester & Chatham Dockyard
- 2021
- South Wales Tour 9-12th October 2021
- Virtual Tour of the Villa Borghese
- Virtual Tour of the Colosseum
- Street Art in Shoreditch - Zoom Walk February 2021
- Marvellous Marylebone - Zoom walk January 2021
- 2019
- Visit to the Armourers' Hall and the IT Hall September 2019
- Visit to Knole Park June 2019
- Visit to the Van Gogh and Britain Exhibition at Tate Britain April 2019
- Visit to Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising and Leighton House March 2019
- 2018
- Trip to Upton House June 2018
- Trip to Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight April 2018
- Visit to Tate Modern’s Picasso 1932 Exhibition March 2018
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