Museum Society Lectures 2009
The Museum Society lectures run fortnightly on a
Tuesday evening throughout the winter months. In addition the
Society also organises trips and walks during the summer
months.
Membership of the Museum Society costs
£12.50 for Adults and £10 for Juniors, Students and
Pensioners. Non-members are welcome to attend lectures for a fee of
£2.50 per lecture.
The programme for the 2008/9 winter
lecture season will be:
Tuesday 6 January 2009 at 7.30pm - Next
door to the Church by David Bond
The story of the English Clergy House, Vicarages
and Rectories.
Tuesday 20 January at 7.30pm - The
'Bizarre' world of Clarice Cliff by Gerry Burrows
This talk traces her life and shows some of the
wide range of designs that were created in her fertile mind.
Tuesday 3 February at 7.30pm - If you go
down to the Woods Today by Carol Simmonds
Carol is the project supervisor for the
excavations in Bedford Purlieus 2007.
Tuesday 17 February at 7.30pm - Broadway
Cemetery by Bronwen Parr
The final resting place of some of the citizens
who shaped the City of Peterborough, some of their memorials,
significance of design and continuation of management.
Tuesday 3 March at 7.30pm - Leather
Conservation by Aline Angus
The Leather Conservation Centre offers a
comprehensive service in teh conservation of leather objects of
historical, cultural and artistic importance.
Tuesday 17 March at 7.30pm - Bletchley
Park by Bob King
Our speaker enlarges on the little known work of
MI5 and MI6 in connection with The Park and the incredible history,
which can never be repeated.
Tuesday 31 March at 7pm - Annual General
Meeting, followed at 7.30pm by:
A continutation of Britain's Beautiful
Waterways by M. A. Grant
This lecture was begun at the previous AGM. We
shall see and hear much more as the lecture progresses.