Tuesday, 5th December at 12:30 for 1:00pm. £25.00 per person. We begin the festive period early in December with our Annual Christmas Lunch, always a popular addition to the calendar. Please book early to avoid disappointment. MENU STARTER Cream of Butternut Squash soup Aioli, tomato & Sage Salsa MAIN Roast Crown of turkey, chipolata sausage ... Read more
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The next Liverpool University / Athenaeum joint debate will take place next Wednesday (6th December) commencing 6pm in the Newsroom. This debate takes on a festive theme ... the role of Christmas in an increasingly secular society. As always, it should be a great evening of informative discussion, good humour, great audience participation and some ... Read more
MEET JOHN DOE (USA 1941). Dir. by Frank Capra. Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck Everyone knows Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, but what about his forgotten earlier film with a very similar theme? The hero is just an ordinary guy whom the press and the politicians take up, and then betray. He faces death on ... Read more
'Christmas In Connecticut' (1947 Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison) 'A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas'. We begin about 6.45pm with a one course supper and go ... Read more
‘A Christmas Carol’, performed by John Bromley-Davenport Q.C. Thursday, 14th December at 6:30 for 7:00pm. £25.00 per person. John Bromley-Davenport Q.C. will be at the Athenaeum on Thursday 14th to give us his brilliant one-man performance of 'A Christmas Carol' by Dickens. MENU Honey and mustard sausages, olives and crisps on arrival in Newsroom FIRST ... Read more
Monday, 18th December at 6:30 for 7:00pm. £25.00 per person. Price includes a light supper, minced pies and mulled wine. Further details are to follow.
Thursday, 21 December. 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. We finish 2017 in relaxing fashion with an ever popular informal dining occasion. There are no speakers - just good food, company and ... Read more
'The Ghost & Mrs Muir' (1967 Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder) 'In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted...and forms a unique relationship with the ghost'. 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 ... Read more
Life with Father, director Michael Curtiz. Clarence Day (William Powell, is the headstrong father of a family of four children, used to running the house in his own way. His wife Vinnie, Irene Dunne, knows that he is head of the household, but although he thinks he is in charge, the question is he? Both ... Read more