Posts Tagged ‘National Maritime Museum’

A very Happy New Year to everyone. There are plans in hand for 2013 and now the Greenwich visit is over we will follow up with detailed plans and dates. We had a wonderful day on Sunday as emails and letters from members confirm describing The Chapel service as brilliant with an excellent Sermon and Haydn’s Nelson Mass sublime- all loved the presence of the Dreadnought Sea Cadets, Lunch excellent and The Painted Hall poignant, haunting and spine tingling especially when the bell tolled at end of Ray Aldis’s Immortal Memory.

On at The National Maritime Museum in The Royals Museum is an exhibition of caricatures from the Napoleonic period which is worth a visit. From Thursday January 17th in the Painted Hall you can see the restorers working on the Restoration. This is a very unique chance to see and speak with the restorers and to see the cherubs up close and personal !!
A visit that will cheer anyone on a Winter’s day. If you live close and have some spare time Then the ORNC would love to hear from you as They need volunteers IN The Painted Hall to help with visitors until the end of April 2013.
We are invited to two Guilds this year to see Nelson Memorabilia : one own Nelson’s snuff box on display in the Jubilee exhibition at Goldsmith’s Hall the other owns the Beechey that Peter Clayton wrote of in a recent Dispatch. We are looking at May/June dates.
TNS member Michael Ford has offered to lead a walk around Merton in the Spring to see where Nelson’s home stood, visit the church where he worshipped and to visit Merton Abbey remains. We will stop en route for a pub lunch.

The Nile Clumps visit and lunch will be Thursday August 1st 2103 – full details on the web very shortly and in the Dispatch. We are very grateful to Amesbury Rotary for saving the Nile Clumps and this is a lovely day out with them- if you wish to know more speak to Graham Browning here today. Holiday Inn again have offered an overnight package rate for us. We are hoping on the afternoon of Wednesday July 31st (the day before) to visit nearby Highclere Castle to see The Nelson Oak being planted there and to see Napoleon’s desk and chair from St Helena which is there. If interested in these two outing please let me know asap.
The Is of Scilly have not been forgotten but with Easter so early this year we plan to go in Spring 2014.
Diary Dates : February 15th The St Vincent Lunch at The Union Jack Club London See Paul Ganjou.
July 28th: The Nile Lunch at Baslow – see The Nelson Dispatch
Ann Stamper, Tamsin Vaughan Williams and Michael Ford have kindly offered to help with the London SE events if others wish to help please contact me as you will be very welcome.
Genevieve St George

The Nelson Society

Greenwich visit, Tuesday June 26^th 2012

Old Royal Naval College and the National Maritime Museum

 

You are invited to join us for an outing to Greenwich on Tuesday 26^th June 2012. We shall first visit the ORNC, which recently launched an appeal for the restoration of the Painted Hall West Wing, (where Admiral Lord Nelson lay in state prior to his burial in St Paul’s Cathedral). We will meet for morning coffee in the King William Restaurant immediately below the Painted Hall between 10.45am and 11.15am. Luminata Halban, the project fundraiser, will join us and take us for a private visit to the Painted Hall and explain the project to us. We will then have lunch at 12.45pm in the King William Restaurant.

 

After lunch, we will walk across to the National Maritime Museum for a 2.15pm tour of the Royal River exhibition, which celebrates both the Queen’s Jubilee and the 75 Years since the Maritime Museum was first opened at Greenwich. Guest-curated by David Starkey, the exhibition is about the power and the pageantry of the Thames in London over the centuries.

 

There will also be time for members to visit the new East India Company Exhibition (which includes some of Nelson’s Royal Worcester Porcelain), and the Titanic Exhibition. We shall also see Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle at the museum entrance and possibly glimpses of the newly restored Cutty Sark by the ORNC.

 

The Royal River exhibition closes on September 8^th 2012 and this will be our only opportunity to visit this amazing exhibition as a group.

 

Please return the attached booking form and your cheque by June 11^th 2012 to:

 

Genevieve St George

Flat 13 John Tucker

40 Mellish Street

London E14 8NS

 

I have to confirm numbers on June 12^th.

 

I very much look forward to seeing many of you on June 26^th.

 

With best wishes

 

Genevieve St George

The Nelson Society Greenwich Summer Visit, June 26^th 2012 

Booking Form

 

I / we wish to join the Nelson Society summer visit to the Painted Hall and lunch in the King William Restaurant of the Old Royal Naval College, and the Royal River exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, on Tuesday June 26th 2012, at a cost of £36.00 per person, to cover morning coffee, two-course lunch plus tea or coffee as per Menu below, and entrance fee to the Royal River exhibition.

 

Name(s) of Member(s) ……………………………………..Membership number………

 

Address .…………………………………………..

 

…………………………………………………….Postcode………………………………

 

Phone No ………………………………………….Mobile No……………………………

 

Email ……………………………………………..

 

I/we would like the main menu………………….

 

I/we would like the vegetarian option  ……………

 

Disclaimer: The Nelson Society is not responsible for personal bills or accidents and recommends personal insurance cover.

 

I accept the Nelson Society terms and conditions.

 

I enclose a cheque (payable to The Nelson Society) for £………… for  (no.)……people

 

(NB Members who are Friends of the Maritime Museum have free admission, please contact Genevieve before returning the form  stgisland@hotmail.com ).

 

Name (block capitals)………………………………….

 

Signature……………………………………………………….Date………………………

 

King William Restaurant Menu for June 26^th 2012

 

Main course: Beer-battered Cod, Hand-cut Chips, Mushy Peas

OR

Vegetarian Option: Spinach and Ricotta Tart

 

Dessert:  Summer Pudding, Tea and Coffee

 

PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WITH YOUR PAYMENT AND SAE BY 11 JUNE TO:

Genevieve St George

Flat 13 John Tucker

40 Mellish Street

London E14 8NS

 

FOOTNOTE

The visit was well attended and went ahead as planned.  Many thanks for Genevieve for arranging such an enjoyable day.

The Royal Rivers Exhibition continues at The National Maritime Museum until 9th September 2012.  Full details are available from The National Maritime Museum website http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/events/royal-river.

Olympic Note from Genevieve:

Anyone wanting to see Royal River the only entrance is Romney Road – not easy to find and one then has to go to through the same security as if entering an Olympic site to go in. The good news that both the NMM and ORNC are open later each day and not too busy. The grounds of the ORNC have lots of entertainment including events live all day on TV deckchairs to sit on to watch – plenty of food stalls and other things. Great fun is the barge on the river that sprays water when enough young ones create enough pedal power to make it all happen.