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BOOK NOW - Wellington Walk, London, 6 May 2022

13/4/2022

 
Full details are now available for our first face to face event in two years.

Please see the attached leaflet for the itinerary and cost.

Please book as soon as you can as places are limited.
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Talk by Jacqueline Reiter - Sir Home Popham - 19 April 22

3/4/2022

 
A reminder: our next talk is by Dr Jacqueline Reiter on Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham. Popham depending on your point of view was a brilliant or incompetent officer in the Royal Navy.  Jacqueline will talk about the character and describe his operation on the Biscay coast of Spain from 1810-12.
Please book your place by emailing Ian Brewer at [email protected] 

The programme of talks for 2021-2022 is below. Please note that the date of the talk by Martin Stoneham on the engineer Richard Fletcher has been changed.

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Save the Date - Wellington Walk - Friday 6 May 2022

3/4/2022

 
We finally hope to run this event that has been put off for two years due to Covid.
 
The provisional timetable is as follows:
 
08:00 – Breakfast at the Pear Tree Café in Battersea Park close to where Wellington fought his famous duel
 
Bus to Wellington Arch
 
10:00 - Wellington Arch where we commence our walk along Piccadilly and to include 5 Hertford Street, and his other haunts, such as The Duke's tailor and boot maker.
 
12:00 – We are very privileged to have access to the Major General's Office at Horse Guards, once occupied by The Duke of Wellington, and where the Duke's desk is still in use, 200 years later. We will also fit in a visit to the Household Cavalry Museum
 
Bus to the Wellington Pub opposite Kings College for lunch
 
13:30 – Lunch at the Wellington
 
15:00 – Visit to the Special Collections at Kings College
 
16:30 – Crypt at St Pauls to view Wellington’s final resting place and to take tea 
 
Further details to follow in due course to include cost.

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