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Both the Birthplace House and the Octavia Hill Society organise a programme of events throughout the year.

Events for 2011

OCTAVIA HILL SOCIETY WEEKLY ACTIVITIES

MONDAY

10.00am - 11.00am Yoga: £5 per session weekly

  • Hayley Wakeling 01945 861292 

2.00pm - 4.00pm Tea & Scrabble: (weekly) £2 No booking necessary

5.30pm - 6.30pm Yoga: £5 per session

  • Hayley Wakeling 01945 861292

7.30pm My Music: Musicians talk about their instruments

(Quarterly from 7th March 2011) £2 including tea/coffee

No booking necessary 


TUESDAY

9.30am - 10.30am Piano for Beginners: £36 per six week course

  • Loc-Mai Brooker 01945 585110

10.00am - 11.00am Computers For All: £2 weekly 

  • Joan Keep 01945 871380

10.00am U3A Walkers *: First Tuesday monthly

  • Joan Keep 01945 871380

2.00pm - 4.00pm Oil Painting

  • Ian Milburn 01945 476358   

7.30pm - 9.30pm Octavia Hill Chess Club: Weekly 

  • Clive Donald 01945 474818 

7.30pm Clarkson Singers: Mixed Voice Choir (weekly) 

  • Bruce Wegg 01945 585568

WEDNESDAY

9.30am - 11.30am Flower Arranging: £5 per session resuming 19th September 2011 (fortnightly)

  • 01945 581360

2.30pm History Group *: 1st Wednesday monthly (U3A*) 

  • Joan Pallant 01945 528444

7.30pm Victorian Lectures: (Quarterly) £5 including wine (£2 OC Society) No booking necessary

  • Call 01945 476358 for dates

7.30pm Ballroom for Beginners: (Weekly) Dates to be advised in autumn 

  • Mina Patel 01945 476683

THURSDAY

2.00pm - 4.00pm Book Club: Read & review a book (last Thursday monthly) £3 inc tea & biscuits

  • Stephanie Judd 01945 450210 

7.00pm - 8.00pm Piano for Beginners: £36 per six week course 

  • Loc-Mai Brooker 01945 585110

7.00pm - 9.00pm Life Drawing: (1st Thursday monthly) £9 per session or £24 for a block of 4 months

  • Karen Harvey 01945 773915

7.30pm - 8.30pm Flamenco Dancing: Fortnightly 

  • Wendy Mitcham 01945 584298

FRIDAY

12.00pm - 2.30pm Fenland Women of Achievement: Networking Group £15 per session inc lunch. 2nd Friday monthly

 

For lectures no booking necessary
* Please note U3A Courses require membership of £15 per annum

For further details or to register your interest please call Peter Clayton:
Octavia Hill's Birthplace House tel: 01945 476358 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it


Dates for your diary

 

 AUGUST

Sunday 14th                         

Octavia Hill Society Coach Day to Manchester - 01945 476358

SEPTEMBER                                                   

Quiz Night

OCTOBER

Tuesday 4th                                       

Octavia Hill Society Launch of Our Place Centenary Schools Project (Invitation Only)

NOVEMBER                                                     

Musical Serenade Colin & Sue Towner 

DECEMBER

Sunday 4th                                     

Octavia Hill Commemoration Day (Octavia Hill Society Event)

 

 

Annual Dates
  Flower   The second Sunday in August, when various sites are visited before flowers are laid on Octavia’s grave in Kent to mark her death on 13 August 1912  

Grey Line

  The first Sunday in December, when Octavia’s birthday on 3 December 1838 is marked by the Octavia Hill Memorial Lecture and Commemoration Service.   Octavia Hill Birthplace Plaque

 


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