Please see the enclosed message with regards to the annual Church Crawl:

I have been asked by Rosamund Rainey, Chairman of Saffron Walden, on behalf of Roseanne Kirkpatrick, to let you know that an Essex Area Church Crawl is being organised on Tuesday 8th August, starting at Radwinter Village Hall.  Coffee will available from 10.30 and the Hall, which is close to the church and has ample parking, will be open until 12 noon. The group will go on from there to visit Little Sampford Church and then Thaxted Church.

To find out more and to register interest Church Recording representatives and Society members should telephone Roseanne Kirkpatrick on 01799 526109. (Roseanne does not use e-mail.)

Lucy Marshall

(Area Secretary)

The last lecture of the 2016 -17 season is on Thursday 6th July 2017 – Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill:“the creator of his little gothic ‘castle’ by the Thames at Twickenham – Strawberry Hill” with our lecturer – John Iddon BA PGCE MA. Please note the Cheese and Wine has been postponed until the Autumn.Click here for more details and the BIO

We are working to update the Blackwater website to recognise our change of name from Blackwater Decorative Fine Arts Society to The Arts Society Blackwater. Watch this space.