As a result of the General Election being held on 4th July, our lecture scheduled for that day, has had to be moved as Wickham Bishops Village Hall will be required for voting. Instead, the July lecture will be held the following Thursday – the 11th.

The new topic will be:

GREAT RAILWAY STATIONS – evoking the spirit of romance and
adventure by Ian Swankie

If you think of St Pancras International or New York Grand Central you imagine long
romantic journeys. You know they are special places promising excitement and
adventure. But there are dozens of other glorious stations in the UK and abroad.

We will take a journey around some of the most evocative and splendid stations in the
world. We will look not only at the magnificence of the architecture and the brilliant
engineering but will discover numerous artworks within the stations and examine
many depictions of stations in art – like Claude Monet’s Gare St Lazare or William
Powell Frith’s Paddington.

It may sound a bit anoraky, but it’s definitely not. It’s lavish, colourful and fun.