Events

  MEMBERS PROGRAMME 2013

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 6.30 for 7.00pm start
Society's Annual General Meeting

Unitarian Meeting House

Churchgate Street

(Please note the changed venue this year)

Includes an illustrated talk by Sheila Reed,
Public Services Manager at the Records Office.
Sheila will be talking about the valuable work
of the Records Office, and some of the
treasures it contains.

'The Influence of the Magna Carta on the US Constitution'
Wednesday 19 June 2012 at 2pm, A talk by  Col James M Durant III
Director of Legal Services US Air Force - Europe

In The Guildhall, Guildhall Street, Bury St Edmunds

Sealed in 1215 the Magne Carta formed the basis of American law back in the days of the Founding Fathers. The US Constitution is a living document open to change and has been amended over the centuries to cope with matters like votes for women, the prohibition of liquor, the right to council and trial, double jeopardy, habeas corpus and the abolition of slavery. Colonel Durant takes us through some of the major changes and how the Magna Carta has been influential.

ENTRANCE IS BY TICKET ONLY - available from
The Toutist Information Office, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds.
Tickets are free to members of the Society, and £5 to non-members (with priority given to members)

Wednesday 3 July 2013 - Hidden London and the Regent's Canal
Coach departs Ram Meadow Car Park at 07.30am (please arrive by 07.15am)

Explore the corner of London left untouched by
the Great Fire of 1666. Take a gentle walk from
Aldersgate to the Newgate. Visit the beautifully
restored Smithfield for lunch.Board a boat at
Little Venice for a tour of the Regent's Canal,
with tea at Camden Lock.
We head for home at 4.45pm

Cost is £35 for members only
Booking form in the Spring edition of the
Society Review

Wednesday 4 September 2013 - Hengrave Hall Tour and Reception

A guired tour of the lovely, and recently
renovated Hengrave Hall. An outstanding Tudor
manor house built between 1525 and 1538 by the
wealthy merchant Thomas Kytson the Elder. The
house is a rare example of a dwelling built around
an enclosed courtyard with a great hall. It was
constructed with stone from the dissolved Ixworth
Priory and with Woolpit white bricks

The tour will be followed by a reception with drinks
and nibbles.

Cost £12 for members (£18 for non members) - 6.15pm for a 6.30pm start - finish around 9.30pm
Booking form in the Spring edition of the Society Review.

Saturday 14 September 2013 - Talk by Martyn Taylor 'Have You Noticed?'
Quaker Meeting House, St John's Street - 10.30am to 11.30am

Martyn is a local historian and Green Badge Guide.
He will give an illustrated talk on some of the quirkier,
strange and downright obscure items of historical
interest that Bury St Edmunds has to offer.

This is a
Bury St Edmunds Heritage Week Event
Please book at the Tourist Information Office
on Angel Hill.

Thursday 10 October 2013 - Visit to Bletchley Park Museum
Coach departs Ram Meadow Car Park at 08.30am (please arrive by 08.15am)

Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire was the home,during World War II,
of the UK's decryption establishment that provided invaluable
imtelligence for the war effort by, famously, breaking the codes for
the Enigma and Lotenz machines.

Our tour will include the Colossus and Tunny Galleries. We will have
refreshments on arrival, a buffet lunch (hopefully in our own room in
the Victorian Mansion) and 'Tea & Buns' before we depart.

Cost is £35 for members only
Booking form will be in the Summer edition of the Society Review