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                                                        Chairman Richard Seymour                                                         
            JULY 2017 NEWSLETTER           
Vol 2 No 7
[If you're viewing this on a Tablet, it is probably best to do so in 'landscape' format]
   ..... first, news of the Lecture on Thursday 20th July....  

  Bringing Grandma to Tea! 
 
Speaker: Barry Venning

 

Barry - a historian of British Art - has a particular interest in Turner on whom he has published widely.  His interests and his teaching extend from medieval architecture to contemporary British art.  Modern art is often considered difficult, but it is much less so when seen through the eyes of some of the

greatest cartoonists of the last 150 years, who provide a humorous and sceptical but instructive guide to modern art from Courbet to the Britart of the 1990s. Thus, in his talk next week, Barry will give us all the chance to enjoy the insight and cartoons of the immortal Giles which makes for an absorbing, illuminating and, above all, funny lecture!
Carl Giles, pictured here, once said that he loved his creation, Grandma Giles – that fearsome, black-clad, gambling, drinking battleaxe – because she allowed him to say things through his cartoons that he was too polite to say in person. She helped him to poke fun at authority in all its forms, from Hitler to traffic wardens and even his employers at the Daily Express (who didn’t trust him) and
sub-editors scouring his cartoons for subversive background details. His admirers included Prince Charles, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Tommy Cooper, and it was no surprise when he was voted Britain’s best-loved cartoonist in 2000. Few people realise, however, that this likeable and humane satirist was also a war
correspondent who witnessed the horrors of Belsen, where he found that the camp commandant, Josef Kramer, was also a great fan of his work. Giles gave us a remarkable picture of a half-century of British life.
As his editor John Gordon put it, he was 'a spreader of happiness’ and ‘a genius…with the common touch’. So we should have a real treat in store next week.
SAY IT WITH FLOWERS!
The glorious flower arrangements at our meetings are probably something we all tend to take for granted. Every month the most wonderful displays are produced by members of a special team led by Jane Buttery, but the flowers are only in place for a very short time before they’re ‘dismantled’ and distributed to members who perhaps are a bit under the weather. Each month, Keith Lawrence photographs
the displays and we thought it might be nice to feature the previous month’s arrangement in THE NEWSLETTER so that you may have the chance to see them again, or indeed for the first time.        In June the flowers, pictured here, were beautifully arranged by Sheila Ashley-Smith (right, photo by Jill Bray) - well done Sheila! 
            VISITS            
                         
                      Beaulieu
                    Motor Museum
                      Palace and Gardens

Monday 16 October 2017
                  
  
    TICKETS £36.00 pp

At 9:45 am on Thursday 20 July, prior to the meeting, Tickets will first go on sale for this great day out with something of interest for everyone.
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Beaulieu comprises Beaulieu Abbey, Beaulieu Palace House, The World of Top Gear, The Secret Army Exhibition [about the Special Operations Executive training at Beaulieu in WW II],
and splendid Gardens, but is possibly most famous as the home of The National Motor Museum (originally the Montagu Motor Museum). Our visit includes a conducted tour of Palace House in the morning, but Lunch and the afternoon will be entirely
at your choice and you will be free to visit any of the many attractions. You could even get a bird's eye view by travelling on the monorail, or maybe just enjoy the serenity of the Gardens.
 You really must click here* for full details of what should be a great day out.
* and scroll down the left hand panel to 16 October 2017
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...also we still have a few tickets left for our

Visit on 7 September...
 
A Backstage Tour of The National Theatre
and Guided Tour around the South Bank
with Sarah Fordham
Click here for details and if you haven't bought a ticket but would like to go,
you could still be lucky.
And now a closing message from our Chairman in holiday mood

We all enjoyed a splendid Members’ Lunch at the June meeting and, on behalf of the membership,  I would like to thank Jill and all her team of wine pourers, meal servers, coffee ladies & table layers very much for a splendid meal, not of course forgetting the caterers. Some of the team are here: Marion Tremlett is adding the flowers and, whilst it doesn't look like it, there were some men involved too.
For instance there's the chap who tells you when to actually get your food - but we’ll forget him. I would also like to thank everyone who was there, for making it such an enjoyable day and, as we adjourn for the holiday season (and of course there’s NO meeting in August), I should like to wish all of you who may be going away in the next few weeks, perhaps with family, a very happy time.

RICHARD SEYMOUR - CHAIRMAN    
Food glorious food
A well earned break!
'Napkin' folding with President Sue (rt) mucking in!
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and finally.....

There will be no NEWSLETTER in August as there is no meeting. So the next edition is scheduled for September. However, it will possibly arrive a bit earlier than usual as yours truly is planning to be with our party of 46 other intrepid travellers in Budapest from 10-16th. Meanwhile I look forward to seeing you next week and to enjoying the lecture on Giles, especially as one of his nephews was in my form at school and often talked about him - but he never mentioned his grandma.

With very best wishes.


David Tinkler 
Newsletter Editor, Website Co-ordinator 
& Tours' Secretary
THE ARTS SOCIETY WALTON ON THE HILL
 
12 July 2017
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