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

Future visits to be confirmed

Fri 15th March      destination tbc



Places visited recently include:
2023/24

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 PassageBritish 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) ArtBrunei 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 MuseumRose 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 3DGA 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 MuseumErnest 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


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