| 25 July 2017 |
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Romsey - All Day VisitIn the morning we will have a guided tour of Romsey Abbey. This Norman building was until the Dissolution, the Church of a Benedictine Convent. In the Abbey is the tomb of Lord Mountbatten of Burma, and amongst its treasures is a 16th century Reredos.
After a break for lunch we will be taken on a guided tour of Romsey with its narrow streets around a central market place. The 13th century King John's House, allegedly a hunting lodge, and now a Heritage Centre, was the centre of a medieval complex. The town’s woollen and tanning industries had declined by the 18th century, but newer fast growing enterprises of brewing, paper making and sackmaking, all reliant on water from the River Test filled the gap.
Guided tour starts at 10am
Guided tours: £12 total
Maximum number 20
To be booked by 3 June
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| 04 August 2017 |
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Parham House - guided tourIn the morning, after a welcoming cup of coffee/tea and home-made biscuits, we will have a private guided tour of Parham, one of the country's finest Elizabethan Houses, complete with a great hall and long gallery. The house, owned by the Pearsons of Cowdray, since the 1920s, contains collections of rare paintings, furniture, needlework and antiquities collected by the family.
Alicia Pearson, great grandmother, of the present owner, decreed that there should be flowers from the garden in every room, and this is a tradition that continues, co-ordinating the colours to the objects in each room.
In the afternoon time to explore the pleasure grounds, walled garden and herbaceous borders
House guided tour starts at 10.30am
Entrance, house tour & coffee and biscuits: £18
Maximum number 20
To be booked by 3 June
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| 11 October 2017 |
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| 13 December 2017 |
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| 10 January 2018 |
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| 14 February 2018 |
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| 11 April 2018 |
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AGM followed by Traditional Music on Unusual Instruments: a History of Folk MusicJoy Lewis & Derrick Hughes
Herne Farm Leisure Centre, Moggs Mead, Petersfield
7:30 PM
Talks
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Petersfield Musical Festival has entertained the town with choral music for over 100 years.
The Physic Garden is open daily except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s day. Check the website for times. Entrance is free.
Visit People of the Heath for more on the excavation of the Petersfield Heath barrows.