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0820 Sculpture Walk: Temple Gardens to Holborn Circus
Tuesday 1 July 6.30pm to about 8pm
Led by Philip Ward Jackson. The walk will start with the sculpture on EM Barry's Temple Gardens, then to Temple Place to look at the statuary there (John Stuart Mill, Lady Henry Somerset Fountain and WE Forster) and briefly at the Astor Estate Office.
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0806.2 Pub Crawl from Fitzrovia to Holborn
Monday 7 July 6.30pm to 8.45pm
Led by Geoff Brandwood. We take in four pubs starting at the Tottenham, Oxford Street, of 1892 by Saville & Martin, and ending at the Princess Louise in Holborn, long famous for its wonderful tiles, mirrors and gents' but now more interesting than ever thanks to a magnificent restoration which has reinstated internal timber and glass screenwork to recreate an authentic Victorian-style interior.
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0821 Visit: British Library Newspapers, Colindale
Tuesday 15 July 2pm to 3.45pm
The British Library newspaper collection is the greatest of its kind in the world. The Colindale site houses the material after 1800 and consists of 693,000 bound volumes and parcels and over 375,000 reels of microfilm, together occupying some 45 km of shelves.
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0825 Peter Clarke Memorial Walk: The city of Holmes and Soames revisited 44 years on
Thursday 17 July 6.30pm to about 8.30pm
A walk around the City following the steps of Peter Clarke's original Victorian Society walk of 1964 seeing what has changed and what remains the same, using the original notes.
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- 0822 AGM Weekend in Leeds, Yorkshire's grandest city
- 0822 50th Anniversary Dinner
- 0823 Sea, Sand and Sir Ernest George: A Weekend in the Devon/Dorset Borders
- 0826 Walk: J F Bentley in Notting Hill
- 0806.3 Pub Crawl from Fitzrovia to Holborn
- 0824 Long Weekend in Lancashire
- 0827.1 Pub Crawl from Westminster to Soho
- 0828 Two Oxford Movement Shrines
- 0829 Two Tooting Churches
- 0830 Water Industry Study Day
- 0831 A Day out in Berkshire
- 0832.1 Lecture: Ritualism Rampant
- 0832.2 EW Godwin: The Road to the White House
- 0833 Supper Lecture: Inside London's Victorian Pubs
- 0832.3 Alfred Waterhouse: Revival or Modernity?
- 0827.2 Pub Crawl from Westminster to Soho
- 0832.4 Alexander McKenzie and the landscape debates in the 1870s
- 0832.5 Anglo-Jackson
- 0832.6 London in the 1870s
- 0832.7 William Morris, Modernity and the Idea of the Monument: Historic Buildings Culture in Transition
- 0834 Supper Lecture: Lewis F Day: unity in design and industry




