Harrow and District Caledonian Society

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 up further along the route

Future visits

Tue 16th March - Brent Museum, Willesden Green Library, NW10 - Ernest Trobridge, Visionary of the suburbs

Usual meeting point is 10.00 am at Harrow on the Hill tube station - or later at the place to be visited

Places visited recently include:

2009/10

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 -

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