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Visits Tours Trips and Events Proposed Trip – Dickens' Museum and Pugin's House Visit We propose to visit Dickens' House and Museum in Broadstairs on Wednesday 25th April 2012 which follows on from our February Lecture celebrating the 200th year of Charles Dickens' birth. The house has been adapted as a 28th September 2012 The History and Heritage of Yorkshire Hotel – 3 ☆☆☆ Cairn Hotel – Harrogate – link Blue Badge Guide days 2,3 and 4 Arranged through Tailored Travel. Itinerary; Price (to be finalised) - £399pp – twin room, single supplement - £69 Insurance if required £14 pp. Please note approx.additional costs for entrances into places of interest is £40 and optional railway trip is £13. Gratuities not included. Please email or telephone John Davies if interested (no commitment at this stage). Special
Interest Days 2012 Members
reports on visits Report of visit to the Stanley Picker House In July a small party made what is becoming an annual visit to the Stanley Picker House and Gallery on Kingston Hill. This superb modernist house built in the late 50s retains the furniture, decoration and fittings of the time and remains at was when Mr Picker died. Set in landscaped gardens with contemporary sculpture and water features, the house is a little known gem open only by prior appointment. The owner was an eclectic collector of paintings and sculpture. There are two small exhibition galleries with art dating from pre-Roman to the 1960s; pieces not in the galleries are displayed throughout the house and gardens. Our tour guide, Mike Smith a lecturer from Kingston University, was full of interesting and personal anecdotes about many of the artists whose work was on show. Even some of those most sceptical of modern art were fascinated by the visit... but have they really changed their minds? View 2x photos in new window John Cook
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museum to commemorate his association with Broadstairs and was once the home of Mary Pearson Strong on whom he based the character of Betsey Trotwood (David Copperfield). The museum is very atmospheric as care has been taken to retain its character of the times. In the afternoon, after lunch, we shall visit Pugin's house, at the Grange in Ramsgate, now owned by the Landmark Trust, and lived in by Augustus Pugin and his family until 1928. It was here that he produced much of his finest work, including the interiors of the House of Lords.
