Please find below information about forthcoming events in Amersham. The Society’s lectures are usually in the Kings Chapel. If any member is unable to make his/her way to these meetings and would like transport to be arranged, please contact Geraldine Marshall-Andrew on 01494 433735.
David Dennis was a trustee of Butterfly Conservation for 9 years, the last 3 of those as its Chair. Butterfly Conservation is the national charity for the conservation of Butterflies and Moths, with 40,000 members and projects that it manages throughout the UK. A dedicated network of volunteers records trends in butterfly populations and works to maintain and improve butterfly habitats. His talk centres around the fascinating life cycles of our local species and images of the rarer ones that you may see in Buckinghamshire.
Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available from 7.30pm. The talk starts at 8.00pm. No booking necessary. Guests and new members welcome.
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With a premises on every high street, pharmacy and its history is arguably most visibly traced through its shops. From local landmarks Haddon’s and King’s, via Shakespeare’s apothecary to Boots, this highly-illustrated talk by Briony Hudson will explore both the profession and the products.
Before joining Amersham Museum as its Director in 2022, Briony worked in medical museums for twenty years, starting as Keeper of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum Collection. Still today in her day “off” from Amersham, she is writing, lecturing, advising or serving in a committee role wearing a pharmacy history hat.
Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available from 7.30pm. The talk starts at 8.00pm. No booking necessary. Guests and new members welcome.
“Knole was built to impress” and has done so ever since. So said Thomas Sackville in 1605 (it wasn’t until much later that they changed their name to Sackville-West).
Knole House dates from the middle of the 15th century and is now one of Britain’s most important and complete historic homes with a colourful past as an archbishop’s palace, the former hunting ground of Henry VIII, the home of the Sackville family for 400 years and a source of literary inspiration for Virginia Woolf.
The house has sumptuous showrooms containing fine Royal Stuart furniture, tapestries and above all, the well known Rembrandt collection and a very impressive silver collection. Stairs lead from the Great Hall to the first floor apartments with long galleries hung with fine paintings and lined with elegant Royal furniture.
We will be able to view the orangery and gardens (highly recommended), which will be open to the public the day we will be there, by kind permission from Lord Sackville-West.
We do hope you can join us on what should prove to be a wonderful, inspiring and interesting visit.
Further details, including Itinerary and Booking Form, will be published in our January Newsletter and circulated to members by email.