Forthcoming Society 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. You'll find the programme for the first few months of 2010 listed below. Most visits are open only to Society members and will usually be marked as private: where an event is open to the public it will be clearly indicated.

If you are not currently a member and would like to buy tickets for a forthcoming event, then you can join the Society very easily via our online membership page.

Details of non-Society events taking place in Battersea or elsewhere in London which you may find of interest are listed here

Tuesday 24 August
PRIVATE VISIT TO OLD BATTERSEA HOUSE
Time: 6.00pm

Venue: Old Battersea House
Location: Vicarage Crescent, Battersea
Cost (per person): £5.00

Saturday 18 September
ST MARY'S CHURCH ANNUAL FAIR
Time: 12.00pm
The Battersea Society will have a stall here, and we require good quality items for sale - old jewllery, unwanted gifts, craft items, bric-a-brac etc.

We will also need volunteers on the day to help with the stall.

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

Thursday 30 September
ILLUSTRATED TALK ON WILLIAM CURTIS, BOTANIST
Time: 7 for 7.30pm
William Curtis (1746-1799)he was Demonstrator to the Society of Apothecaries at Chelsea Physic Garden in 1772. He published many books including the Botanical Magazine - a periodical which continues virtually unchanged to the present day. He has a commemorative stained glass window in St.Mary's Church. 
Venue: St Mary's Church
Location: Battersea Church Road
Cost (per person): £5 (payable on door)

Wednesday 13 October
PRIVATE VISIT TO MUSEUM OF BRANDS, PACKAGING AND ADVERTISING
Time: 2.00pm
The history of consumer culture is revealed through household products and shopping basket favourites
in a 'time tunnel' which charts a nostalgic journey from Victorian times to the present day. Featuring over 12,000 original items from the Robert Opie collection.


Venue: Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
Location: 2 Colville Mews, Lonsdale Road, W11
Cost (per person): £5

Monday 25 October
PRIVATE VISIT TO THE MAGIC CIRCLE
Time: 11.30am-1.30pm
Upon arrival you are invited to have tea/coffee and biscuits. There is then a 10-minute talk about the history of the Magic Circle after which you are taken on a guided tour of the building seeing various artefacts, the public Museum and the Devant Room displaying unique apparatus of the past.

You will then have a live close-up magic performance in the Devant Room. After a short
comfort break you will be shown to the Theatre for a live stage performance. 
Venue: The Magic Circle
Location: 12 Stephenson Way NW1 (near Euston station)
Cost (per person): £14

Wednesday 3 November
GUIDED TOUR OF LEIGHTON HOUSE MUSEUM
Time: 11.00am
Tour of the newly re-furbished Leighton House Museum. Leighton House was the home of Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896). The Arab Hall is the centrepiece of the house, designed to
display Leighton's priceless collection of over a thousand Islamic tiles, as well as stunning peacock blue tiles by William de Morgan. There are paintings by many of his contemporaries such as Burne-Jones, Millais, Alma-Tadema and Albert Moore as well as paintings and sculptures by Leighton himself. 
Venue: Leighton House Museum
Location: 12 Holland Park Road, W14
Cost (per person): £9.50

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