Year: 2022

On 21st June 2022 members spent a most enjoyable and exhausting day visiting Dartmouth and the Britannica Royal Naval College. We  didn’t arrive by Ferry but by coach,  other holiday-makers travelled by steam train from Paignton and crossed the river Dart by boat: After lunch in Dartmouth there was a five minute drive by coach […]

Bowood House is home to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne and surrounded by 2,000 acres of Grade I listed ‘Capability’ Brown parkland. Begun c1720. It was purchased by the 2nd Earl of Shelburne in 1754 and completed soon afterwards.Interesting rooms include Robert Adam’s library; the Laboratory where Dr Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774; […]