Harrow and District Caledonian Society

Cultural outings

Outings to places of interest in the local area (in and around Harrow, central London, and occasionally trips further afield) take place monthly - usually meeting at a central public transport starting point, though others may join further along the route

Future visits

Fri 11th October - Her Booke - Early modern women and their books, Lambeth Palace Library, 15 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7JT

Places visited recently include:

2024/25

2023/24

June - Mary Beale portraits, Philip Mould Gallery, 18-19 Pall Mall, SW1Y 5LU

May - Kew Palace

Apr/May - Harrow School architecture - postponed

Mar - Freemasons Hall and Crown Court Church

Feb - Imperial War Museum - Lies, Spies and Deception exhibition

Nov - Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, Basinghall Street EC2V 5AE - Treasures of Gold and Silver Wire exhibition

Oct - Queen's House, Romney Road SE10 9NF - Van de Velde sea paintings

Sept - Damien Hirst Gallery, Newport Street, Vauxhall SE11 6AJ - A Great Light exhibition

2022/23

June Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner Memorial Park, 50 West End Lane, Pinner HA5 1AE

June Gunnersbury Park Museum, Popes Lane, W5 4NH

Mar Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, W8 6AG

Feb Tamil exhibition, Headstone Manor, Harrow

Jan British Museum, Great Russell Street WC1B 3DG - Collecting and empire trail

Dec Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road NW1 2BE - in Plain Sight exhibition

Nov British Library, 96 Euston Road NW1 2DB

Oct Elizabeth line to Maidenhead

Sept - Wallace Collection, W1 - incl exhibition

2021/22

Apr - Two Temple Place, 2 Temple Place WC2R 3BD

Mar - Waterloo

Feb - Watford Museum

Dec - Rickmansworth Aquadrome, Frogmoor Lane, Rickmansworth WD3 1NB

Nov (ii) - Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard EC2V 5AE - Noel Coward: Art & Style exhibition

Nov (i) - Headstone Manor, Pinner View, HA2 6PX

Oct - Uxbridge, incl Denham Marina

Sep - Headstone Manor, Pinner View, HA2 6PX

2020/21

July - Art exhibition Headstone Manor, Pinner View, HA2 6PX

June - Treasure Hunt from Chancery Lane

May - Silk Road Exhibition, Granary Square

Apr - Old Eastcote

Dec - North Harrow / Pinner

Nov - Hatch End

Oct - Pinner

Sep - Stanmore Common/Bentley Priory

outings resumed in September 2020 with small groups visiting an identified location each month

2019/20

no outings took place from March to September 2020 due to the national restrictions on meeting

tbc - visit to 78 Derngate (Charles Rennie Mackintosh house), Northampton - postponed

tbc - Thames River Police Museum 98 Wapping High St, St Katharine's & Wapping, London E1W 2NE (3rd group) - postponed

Apr - Two Temple Place 'Unbound - Visionary women collecting textiles' - cancelled due to covid restrictions

Mar - Chris Beetles Gallery. Ronald Searle and William Heath Robinson Exhibition

also St James's, Piccadilly for concert by early music group Sacred Bones

Feb - Bentley Priory museum, Mansion House Drive, Stanmore, HA7 3FB

Jan - Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39A Canonbury Square, London N1 2AN - Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life

Nov - Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington SW7 2DD 'Top secret: From ciphers to cyber security'

Oct - Museum of London Docklands, No1 Warehouse, West India Quay, E14 4AL

Oct - Bletchley Park,The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Sherwood Drive, Bletchley, Milton Keynes (for satnav use MK3 6DS )

Oct - Thames River Police Museum 98 Wapping High St, St Katharine's & Wapping, London E1W 2NE

Sept - Treasure Hunt in London - depart Harrow on the Hill station

2018/19

June - Royal Airforce Museum, Hendon, Grahame Park Way, NW9 5LL

May - Pitzhanger Manor, Mattock Lane, Ealing W5 5EQ

May (2nd) Headstone Manor

April

Mar - Tue 12th Newport Street Gallery, Newport Street, Vauxhall SE11 6AJ - Cradle of Magic exhibition

Feb - Mon 18th Enfield Museum, Dugdale Centre, 39 London Road, Enfield EN2 6DS Bringing the Walls to Life - The Lanscoon Murals of Broomfield House Revisited

Jan - Thu 24th Victoria & Albert museum , Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL history of photography

Dec - Fri 14th RAF Museum, Colindale (cancelled/postponed)

Nov - Tue 13th Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham

Oct - Mon 29th Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park - This vexed question: 500 years of women in medicine

Sep - Tue 18th Fulham Palace, Bishop's Ave, SW6 6EA and Political Cartoon Gallery, Lower Richmond Road, Putney SW15 1JP

2017/18

June - Design Centre, Kensington High Street - 20th/21st century design

May - V&A Museum, Ocean liners exhibition

Apr - National Portrait Gallery - Birth of Photography

Mar - Piano Nobile gallery, 129 Portland Road, Holland Park, W11 4LW - Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant exhibition, Omega to Charleston

Feb - Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields WC2A 3BP, Egypt Uncovered exhibition

Jan - Heath Robinson museum, Pinner Memorial Park

Dec - National Maritime Museum Greenwich, Romney Road, Greenwich SE10 9NF

Nov - House of Illustration gallery, Kings Cross

Oct - William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Walthamstow

Sept - National Army Museum

2016/17

July - Reveley Lodge, 88 Elstree Road, Bushey

June - River Police Museum, Wapping (to be rescheduled)

Mar - Victoria & Albert museum , Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL

Feb - British Library, Euston Road, NW1 - 20th century maps exhibition

Jan - Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, Notting Hill - 250 years of jigsaws

Dec - Dennis Severs House, 18 Folgate Street, Spitalfields E1 6BX

Nov - Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green E2 9PA

2015/16

June - Hatfield House and Garden (jointly with gardening group)

May - Ascott house and grounds - LU7 0PR, near Wing, Bucks (jointly with gardening group)

Mar - Queens Chapel and Kings College Chapel

Feb - Dr Johnson's house, 17 Gough Square EC4A 3DE incl Zanzibar exhibition

Jan - Greenwich

Dec - St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch Lane, Edgware HA8 6QS

Nov - Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill

Oct - London treasure trail, Monument to Liverpool St

Sept - postponed

2014/15

June - Emirates cable car

Apr - Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition, The Architecture Gallery, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, W1B 1AD map

Mar - Cotton to Gold exhibition, Two Temple Place, WC2R 3BD

Feb - Truth and Memory - British art in the First World War , Imperial War Museum , Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ

Jan - Lines in the Ice: Seeking the Northwest Passage , British Library 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB

Dec (ii) - Ben Uri Gallery, 108a Boundary Road, NW8 0RH

Dec (i) - Scottish Diaspora tapestry, Corby, Northants

Nov - Fashion and Textile Museum,

Oct - Tower of London, EC3N 4AB

2013/14

Mar - The Bentley Priory Museum (Battle of Britain), Mansion House Drive, Stanmore (use HA7 3HT for satnav)

Feb - A Hive of Industry, Gunnersbury Park Museum, Popes Lane, W5 4NH

Jan - Bring me Laughter exhibition, Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street, WC1A 2HH

Nov - Zoroastrians: British Museum of 'Wise Men from the East' and Brunei Gallery 'The Everlasting Flame'

Oct - Osterley House and Park, Jersey Road, Isleworth, TW7 4RD joint Gardening group,/ Cultural outing

Sept - Worshipful company of Basketmakers exhibition, Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, EC2V 7HH

June - Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham TW1 3DJ

2012/13

May - Pinner/Eastcote/Ruislip

Apr - London Scottish Regiment museum, 95 Horseferry Road, SW1P 2DX

Mar - Ruislip and Pinner

Feb - World Eco Fibre & Textile (WEFT) Art, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG

Jan - Scottish Colourists at Fleming Collection, Berkeley Street, W1,

and Recital at St Mary at Hill church, St Mary at Hill, Eastcheap, Billingsgate, EC3R 8EE

Nov - Alexander Fleming museum, St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street Paddington, W2 1NY

Oct - Cuming museum (1906), Old Walworth Town Hall, 151 Walworth Road, Southwark, SE17 1RY

Jun - Hunterian museum, St Bride's church crypt (and recital), Goldsmith's Hall

2011/12

May - Fenton House, Burgh House, Hill Garden - Hampstead, NW3 - joint visit with gardening group

Apr - Bushey Museum , Rose Garden and Reveley Lodge ,

Mar - Cartoon Museum , 35 Little Russell Street, WC1A 2HH - planned, but not visited

and New London Architecture at 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT

Feb - Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road SW7 5BD , incl Scott's last Antarctica expedition

Jan - British Postal Museum & Archive, Freeling House, Phoenix Place WC1X 0DL

Dec - Two Temple Place Temple Place WC2R 3BD

Nov - Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - Vermeer's Women exhibition

Oct - National Portrait Gallery (Victorians), St.Martin's Place WC2H 0HE

and Florence Nightingale Museum, 2 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7EW

Sep - "treasure hunt", London

2010/11

May - Harrow school, Stained Glass exhibition

Apr - Ragged School Museum, 45-50 Copperfield Road, E3 4RR

Feb - Museum of London, 150 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN

Jan - Victoria & Albert museum , Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL

Nov - British Museum WC1B 3DG, A History of the World in 100 Objects exhibition

Oct - Tithe Barn, Harrow Museum, Headstone Manor, Pinner View, HA2 6PX

Sep - Fulham Palace & gardens, incl exhibition A Passion For Plants - Unique Botanical Photograms by Angela Easterling

2009/10

Mar - Brent Museum, Ernest Trobridge, Visionary of the suburbs

Feb - Wellcome Collection and British Library - C19th photographs

Jan - Natural History Museum, incl wildlife photographer of the year exhibition

Nov - British Museum - Staffordshire hoard exhibition

Oct - National Maritime Museum, Greenwich - North West Passage exhibition

Sep - London Canal Museum, Kings Cross

2008/09

May - Courtauld Gallery , St Clement Danes church , Charles Dickens House

Apr - Goldsmith's Hall, Silver with a pinch of salt exhibition

Mar - Musical Museum, Brentford

Jan - Harrow School tour

Dec - Wallace Collection, incl Cartoons and Coronets (Osbert Lancaster) exhibition

Nov - St John's Gate, Clerkenwell

Nov - Gilda Baron, embroidered landscapes, Etz Chayim gallery, Northwood

2007/08

2006/07

Mar -

Feb -

Jan -

Dec - Geffrye Museum - 20th century rooms decorated for Christmas

Nov - V & A - At home in Renaissance Italy

Oct - Harrow School art gallery

Jul - Hatfield House (cancelled due to very hot weather)

Jun - St Stephen's Walbrook (recital), and Museum of refugees and immigrants, Spitalfields

May - Dulwich Picture Gallery - Winslow Homer, poet of the sea, exhibition

Apr - 2 Willow Road and Keats House

2005/06

Mar -

Feb -

Jan - British Museum - The Staffordshire Hoard, xx

Nov - Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - The Macclesfield Psalter

Oct - St Magnus - scale model of London Bridge and City Hall

Sep - Queen's House - The Coast Exposed (incl boat trip)

Aug - British Library - incl Hans Christian Anderson exibition

Jul - Chelsea Physic Garden and National Army Museum

Jun - Kensington Palace and Gardens

Apr - St James Garlyckhyth and surrounding area

2004/05

Dec - Silver crypt - Sir John Soane - Degas exhibition

Oct - Bank of England - St Mary's (recital) - Wesley's Chapel

Sept - National Portrait Gallery (women travellers) - Theatre museum - St Paul's, Covent Garden

Aug - Flemyng gallery and Carlyle House

Jun - British Library - Silk Road exhibition

Mar - V&A - Arts & Crafts, Queen Maud's dresses, Flemyng gallery

Feb - Guildhall art gallery - Mansion House

2003/04

Mar -

Feb -

Jan -

Oct 2004 - Bank of England Museum - St Margaret Lothbury - Wesley's Chapel and house - Bunhill Fields

Sept 2004 - National Portrait Gallery "Off the Beaten Track: Three centuries of Women Travellers" and Theatre Museum Covent Garden