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Analysing the Housing Crisis Problem
At our Monthly Meeting on 23 August 2023, our speaker was Barrister, Broadcaster and Author Hashi Mohamed, talking on the causes of the current housing crisis, and where solutions may be found. Hashi Mohamed had previously spoken to us on the subject of “People Like Us”, his first published book. It was therefore no surprise…
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Gardening Club Sees a Conversion
Members of the Gardening Club decided to move their meeting from the last week of July to the third week in order to visit the garden of two of their members. Kathy and Greg (pictured in the doorway) hosted the group to tea on 19 July 2023, and explained how they had converted their garden…
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Painting the Unruly House & Taverns
This week’s examination of the Golden Age of Dutch Art, with Jennifer, had us all intrigued as to what could be shown and what could not. Entitled “The Unruly House and the Tavern”, we saw the works of Jan Steen (1626-1679), concentrating on behaviour in homes, in taverns and the behaviour of doctors in 17th…
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Our Visit to the Apothercaries’ Hall
On Tuesday 7 February 2023, we made a visit to the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries’ Hall in Black Friars Lane, in the City of London. The building we see today dates in part from the reconstruction following the Great Fire of London, but in earlier times was the location for the guest house of the…