Forthcoming Events

Every year we arrange a wide range of events, visits to places of interest, talks on subjects of local interest or concern and some public meetings. The programme for 2009 is still being finalised - but will include visits to (among many other places), London's Foundling Museum, the Central Criminal Court, the Whitechapel Bell Foundry and Goldsmiths' hall. Watch this space!

A downloadable application form for tickets will be available soon.

Saturday 22 November
A MUSICAL EVENING AT ST MARY'S
Time: 7.30pm
Soprano arias, flute pieces and readings inspired by opera. In aid of Shining Life Children's Trust, working with disadvantaged children in Sri Lanka.

This is not an event organised by the Battersea Society. Please email Jonathan Bailey for tickets or more information.

Venue: St Mary's Church
Location: Battersea Church Road, SW11
Cost (per person): £10, £5 conc., children free

Saturday 17 January
Guided tour of the FOUNDLING MUSEUM
Time: 11.00AM
The Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, London's first home for abandoned children and of three major figures in British history: its campaigning founder the philanthropist Thomas Coram, the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel. This remarkable collection of art, period interiors and social history is now housed in a restored and refurbished building adjacent to the original site of the Hospital, demolished in 1926.
Venue: The Foundling Museum
Location: Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ
Cost (per person): to be confirmed

Thursday 29 January
Talk on VINTAGE PUB INTERIORS
Time: 7.00pm for 7.30pm
Given by Geoff Brandwood who - with Jane Japhecote - has just published London Heritage Pubs: An Inside Story - Historic Pub Interiors in the Capital.

Those wishing to have dinner can order and pay beforehand and the food will be served around 8.30 after the talk .
Venue: Prince Albert
Location: Parkgate Road
Cost (per person): to be confirmed

Saturday 14 February
Private Visit to TATE BRITAIN ARCHIVES
Time: 2.00pm & 3.15pm
To look at the collection of Pre-Raphaelite preparatory drawings followed by a tour of the gallery to see the finished paintings on display.
Venue: Tate Britain
Location: Millbank
Cost (per person): to be confirmed

Wednesday 25 March
Private Visit to GOVERNMENT ART COLLECTION
Time: to be confirmed


Cost (per person): to be confirmed

Thursday 26 March
Talk on WANDSWORTH PRISON
Time: 7.00 for 7.30pm
Given by the governor of the prison

Cost (per person): to be confirmed

Wednesday 22 April
Private Tour of the CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
Time: 6.00pm


Cost (per person): to be confirmed

Thursday 4 June
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Time: 7.00 for 7.30pm

Venue: St Mary's Church
Location: Battersea Church Road

Thursday 11 June
Private Visit to W.THOMAS RESTORATION
Time: 2.30pm
The ancient London traditions of fine carving and gilding are still carried on in Battersea by W. Thomas Restorations Ltd., world famous specialists in the restoration and conservation of 18th and 19th century English and French carved giltwood furniture, mirrors and works of art. The company is not only involved with restoration work for private customers and antique dealers, but also for some of the most prestigious private collections and important museum objects.
Venue: Havelock Terrace SW8 4AS
Cost (per person): to be confirmed

Wednesday 24 June
Coach trip to LYDIARD HOUSE near Swindon
Time: 9.30am
Ancestral home of the VIscounts Bolingbroke.

As one of Wiltshire's smaller stately homes, Lydiard House benefits from a highly intimate atmosphere. Visitors are free to wander at leisure throughout the elegant ground floor apartments, where ornate plasterwork and original family furnishings are preserved alongside portraits and photographs of the St. John family who lived in Lydiard House from as far back as Elizabethan times.

Cost (per person): to be confirmed

Saturday 22 August
Private visit to WHITECHAPEL BELL FOUNDRY
Time: 9.30am
Whitechapel Bell Foundry is probably Britain's oldest manufacturing company, established in 1570 and in continuous business since that date.

The company still concentrates solely on, the manufacture of bells and their associated fittings, with church bells and their accessories making up the majority of the business, though they also manufacture of handbells for tune and change ringing, and other small bells of many shapes and sizes.

Venue: 34 Whitechapel Road, E1 1DY
Cost (per person): to be confirmed

Thursday 24 September
Private Visit to SOUTHSIDE HOUSE, Wimbledon
Time: 2.00pm
Southside was re-built in the William and Mary style,
and the old rooms still contain much of the furniture which the Pennington family brought here, together with a large collection of art and historical objects reflecting centuries of ownership. 

Cost (per person): to be confirmed