Joint Afternoon Tea with the Bluecoat Display Centre. Tuesday, 26th September, at 1:00 for 1:30pm. £12.50 per person. Jessica creates a stunning range of wearable jewellery including cuffs, rings, earrings, men’s jewellery, neckpieces & brooches. She works primarily in silver, while also using gold leaf to bring colour, contrast and life to her collection. All ... Read more
'The Lady Killers' A customary Ealing comedy to start the season 'Five diverse oddball criminal types planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians'. We begin about 6.45pm with a one course supper and go into the 'cinema' by about quarter to ... Read more
‘Little Boy Blue’, Dinner with His Honour Judge Neil Flewitt Q.C. & Dr Paul Johnson. Friday, 13th October at 6:30-7:00pm. £25.00 per person. Many of you will have seen the recent highly-rated ITV series 'Little Boy Blue' about the terrible murder of the Croxteth youngster Rhys Jones. The leading prosecution barrister in the case ... Read more
I’M ALL RIGHT JACK (GB 1959) Dir. by John Boulting. After being demobbed the hero (Ian Carmichael) decides to go into Industry, little knowing that most of the workforce are strike-happy layabouts, and that the management are as bent as hair-pins. This wickedly cynical film marks Peter Sellers’ first great role as a bone-headed shop ... Read more
We are entering an new epoch, a time where technology, automation and machine intelligence has the potential to supplant human labour in all its forms. Not just physical labour and manufacturing, but also white collar industries such as banking and insurance, medicine, teaching, legal and professional services and even the creative arts. What is to ... Read more
'Pygmalion' (1938 film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same name) A Victorian dialect expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society. We begin about 6.45pm with a one course supper and go into the ‘cinema’ ... Read more
New Members Informal Dining. Friday, 3th November. Service will be between 7:00 & 8:00pm. Predinner drinks will be available in the Newsroom from 6:30pm for anyone who wishes to gather before the meal. £25.00 per person. Informal Dining evenings are what they say—Informal! There are no speakers—just good food, company and wine. At the dinner ... Read more