7.30pm, Monday 17 November 2014, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 An illustrated talk by Carolyn & Peter Hammond, authors of Life in an Eighteenth Century Country House (the Morice letters). When the sixth Duke of Devonshire inherited Chiswick House in 1811 he commissioned an inventory of its contents. This talk uses […]
7.30pm, Monday 20 October 2014, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 An illustrated talk by Paul Shaw, central archivist for the Poor Servants of the Mother of God Sisters at the Convent in Brentford Butts since 2001. The talk will focus on Mother Magdalen Taylor (1832-1900), the founder of the order in Brentford, […]
7.30pm, Monday 15 September 2014 at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 An illustrated talk by Howard Simmons, a Hounslow Heritage Guide, Syon House Guide and board member of the Battlefield Trust. Howard will describe the role of the Duke of Northumberland and his home, Syon House, during the English Civil Wars with […]
