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WINTER LECTURE SERIES 15 APRIL 2020

FRANCIS PRYOR, One of Britain’s most distinguished living archaeologists and a former President of the Council for British Archaeology, Francis has spent 40 years studying the prehistory of the Fens. He was the lead excavator of the Bronze Age village at Flag Fen. A prolific author, Francis has written many highly acclaimed books including the’Birth of Modern Britain’ and the recent, ‘The Fens’, that was serialised as a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’

Lectures are held on Wednesday evenings at 1930 in the Grosvenor Museum lecture Theatre.

Lectures are free to members of Chester Civic Trust and guests are welcome: £5 on the door.

 

 

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NEXT MEETING: 26 FEBRUARY 2020

LOUISE PALOMBA, Associate Partner with Rogers Stirk Harbour, shortlisted architects for the 2019 Stirling Prize for the Macallan Distillery and Visitor Centre in Moray, pays a return visit and will talk about examples of a sustainable approach

Lectures are held on Wednesday evenings at 1930 in the Grosvenor Museum lecture Theatre.

Lectures are free to members of Chester Civic Trust and guests are welcome: £5 on the door.

 

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WINTER LECTURE SERIES 15 JANUARY 2020: AROUND the WALLS in 60 YEARS

TONY BARTON, the Chairman of Insalls Associates and STEPHEN LANGTREE, Vice-President of the Civic Trust, will give an illustrated presentation entitled ‘AROUND the WALLS in 60 YEARS’. The speakers will highlight what changes have happened in the city over the life of the Civic Trust and the audience will be invited to consider what sort of changes will be appropriate for Chester over the next 60 years.

Lectures are held on Wednesday evenings at 1930 in the Grosvenor Museum lecture Theatre.

Lectures are free to members of Chester Civic Trust and guests are welcome: £5 on the door.

 

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WINTER LECTURE SERIES 16 October 2019

Dr ELIZABETH BAIGENT, reader in the history of geography at the University of Oxford will give a talk entitled Octavia Hill : Housing reformer and founder of the National Trust. Dr Baigent has co-edited a recent book entitled ‘Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles : Octavia Hill, Social Activism and the Remaking of British Society’.

Lectures are held on Wednesday evenings at 1930 in the Grosvenor Museum lecture Theatre.

Lectures are free to members of Chester Civic Trust and guests are welcome: £5 on the door.

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WINTER LECTURE SERIES 20 NOVEMBER 2019

JOHN BENSON from the National Waterways Museum will give our opening lecture of the season on The Canal and River Trust and Waterways Archive.

Lectures are held on Wednesday evenings at 1930 in the Grosvenor Museum lecture Theatre

Lectures are free to members of Chester Civic Trust and guests  are welcome: £5 on the door

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 26 SEPTEMBER 2019

Chester Civic Trust

The 2019 AGM WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2019 AT 7.30PM

IN ST MARY’S CREATIVE SPACE, ST MARY’S HILL, CHESTER.

Parking is available nearby at Chester Castle

The formal AGM business will be preceded by a talk from Professor Stuart Ainsworth of the University of Chester and the Channel 4 archaeological series Time Team, on the history of the area around the amphitheatre and St John’s Church.

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