VNS Events
Saturday 22nd October 2011
VNS AGM, 2011
The General Meeting of the Violet
Needham Society took place on
Saturday 22nd October 2011 at St Botolph's, Bishopsgate (near Liverpool St Station),
and included a talk by Charlotte Ryton on Camping and Tramping in Children's
literature.
Click here for map and how to find the church
Saturday, 30 July, 2011
SUMMER OUTING 2011
The VNS Summer Outing took place in Nottingham on Saturday 30th July 2011.
The main event was an afternoon at Nottingham Castle devoted to local author Geoffrey Trease, and to Robin Hood in fiction and other media, following lunch-time refreshments at 1pm. This was preceded by an optional late morning visit to Bromley House Library, the former Nottingham Subscription Library, which has occupied a handsome 18c town house since the 1820s.
PLEASE NOTE:
Both venues include stairs and steps: the Nottingham Castle meeting room is
on a mezzanine
to which the lift does not give access, and Bromley House has NO LIFT
and a lot of steps!
Recent VNS Events
Saturday, 23 October, 2010
AGM London
Violet Needham Society AGM at St Paul's, Robert Adam Street, London
Updated information about the 2010 AGM of the Violet Needham Society - click here to view
VNS summer excursion 2010
Our summer event was an extra special one.
It took place on Saturday, 10 July, and was to Gloucestershire.
Lunch was in the Old Hall at Badminton House, and by kind permission of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort we were allowed to view the gardens (not normally open on a Saturday). We were joined at lunch by our President, Gerald Harford.
In the afternoon we visited Little Sodbury Manor, formerly the home of Violet Needham's cousin Baron Francis de Tuyll and then of her nephew and great-nephew, Mark and Gerald Harford. It was used as the model for 'Merlyns'. The house is no longer open to the public, so we are very grateful to Lord and Lady Killearn, the present owners, for allowing us to visit. Lady Killearn most kindly invited us to tea.
Although normally members are free to bring as
many guests as they like, on this occasion we must
restrict them to ONE only.
Saturday, 31 October, 2009
AGM London
Violet Needham Society AGM at St Botolph's, Bishopsgate,
London,
followed by a luch and an afternoon discussion on "London in Children's
Books".
For further details, please get in touch
with Hilary Clare
by phone (01235 525898) or e-mail (hilaryclare@kinquest.fsnet.co.uk)
Authors featured will include (but are not limited
to):
Noel
Streatfeild
Mabel
Esther Allan
Antonia
Forest
Robina Beckles Willson
Jessie Powell
Charlie
Fletcher
Saturday, 20 June, 2009
The Violet Needham Society visited Hemingford Grey,
home of the author Lucy Boston and setting for her 'Green Knowe' books.
Click
here to download full details
Read
more about the Manor, Hemingford Grey, as it is today
(interview and illustrated tour of the Manor with Diana Boston,
Lucy's daughter-in-law - in The Lady