Mrs Jutta Hesketh - 'Cecil Day-Lewis' Cecil Day - Lewis CBE, Poet Laureate 1968-1972 Jutta Hesketh will be talking about one of the great authors and poets of the C20th. Day - Lewis (an Anglo -Irish author) also wrote crime stories under the pseudonym of Nicolas Blake. Do join us in the Library on Wednesday ... Read more
New Members Informal Dining: Friday 6 April – Service between 7:00pm and 8:30pm. £25.00 per person We are pleased to announce the next New Members Informal Dining Evening has been scheduled for Friday, 6 April. You can book your place now via the Members’ Area or with reception. New Member’s Informal Dining evenings ... Read more
"Out of Africa II” By Eva Cookey Enjoy a specially prepared West African meal and a presentation on the success of last year’s efforts to provide books for the Groves Library in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Come and see where your books and money went! It’s quite a tale Tuesday 10th April 2018-02-27 at 12.30 in ... Read more
'United 93' - United 93 is a 2006 biographical drama- thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Paul Greengrass, that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks of 2001.
‘James Dickson Innes : 'Beauty Most wild', a talk by Professor Rhiannon Evans MBE Athenaeum, Liverpool, April 20th 2018 2pm. J D Innes was a Welsh painter (1887-1914) and a close friend of Augustus John. In his short life he painted landscapes in Wales and France of extra-ordinary power and originality. Bio Professor Emeritus ... Read more
Friday 20 April, 7:00 for 7:30pm, £25.00 per person. We are very fortunate to be joined for dinner on 20th April by Sir John Timpson CBE. He founded the well-known chain of Timpson shops, of which there are now over 1,300, and which provide shoe-repairing, key-cutting and many other services. It has been his ... Read more
'The Producers' (1967 Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder) 'Producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom make money by producing a sure-fire flop'. We begin about 6.45pm with a one course supper and go into the ‘cinema’ by about quarter to eight. All our films have a suitable intermission and we empty out no later than ... Read more