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42 people joined the visit to Cardiff, to enjoy this wonderful city, in glorious weather. Most people chose to start at Cardiff Bay, the site of an incredible regeneration…

Dillington House photograph by Claire Osgood What a delight it was driving through Somerset with trees in fresh new leaf and cow parsley lining the roads. Claire had it all…

Southampton is a vibrant city with a rich and varied history. Members made their own decisions about what to choose to do from the wide range on offer, from art…

A large audience, surely the largest we have had for some time, enjoyed listening to Bob Williams read works by the Liverpool Poets, Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten….

The ‘Charles I, King & Collector’ show, with its myriad treasures, primarily from the Northern and Italian Renaissance, will certainly prove to be one of the exhibitions of the year….

Photo: Commemorative bell, GWR King Class 4-6-0 6000 ‘King George V’ Swindon Railway Museum It is pleasing to report that our mid-winter half day visit to Swindon proved remarkably popular….

The Gothic Revival usually evokes pictures of 19th century architecture, but the movement actually originated and flourished in the 18th century. For Dr Amy Frost a key building was Woodstock…

What does “Talboys” Keevil conjure up? We had no idea what to expect, but the description in the Autumn magazine did not disappoint. Dating from the 15th Century, it is…

‘You look out at the world with one eye and into yourself with the other’… a quote attributed to Amedeo Modigliani. Choosing to visit the ‘Modigliani’ blockbuster exhibition at Tate…

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” Michael Darlow began his talk to a large and attentive audience with these words of Dostoevsky, and immediately we were…