Morning coffee can be purchased in Bungay , while the tea room at Earsham Hall will be open for you to purchase lunch. Earsham Hall is a large Queen Anne House with Medieval origins. Butcher Cumberland visited and Sir John Soane made improvements. Afternoon tea will  be provided after the guided tour.

Pick up time 9am Little Baddow Memorial Hall.  Departure time.5pm.

Price: £61 per head.

You might like to find out more about Earsham Hall by visiting their website:  

 In the morning we will have a guided walking tour of historic King's Lynn with a Blue Badge guide. In the afternoon we will have a guided tour of Clifton House, which is probably the finest merchants town house in England. There we will visit the Medieval Wine cellars and the Elizabethan Tower with Jacobean murals and spectacular views. Tour followed by tea and cake in the Tudor kitchen (the cost of this is included in the price of the visit).

Lunch can be bought in various eateries in King's Lynn (Lunch is not included).

Pick up time 8.30am Little Baddow Memorial Hall. Departure time 4.30pm 

Price: £61 per head.

 Sissinghurst Kent, this is the home of Vita Sackville West and her husband Harold Nicolson. Harold designed the gardens and Vita was responsible for the planting.

Lunch can be bought at the Granary Restaurant or eaten in the picnic area if you wish to bring a packed lunch.

Pick up time 9am Little Baddow Memorial Hall. Departure time 4pm.

Price:  £33 National Trust Members £51 Non Members 

• Staying at the Stirling Highland Hotel
• Dinner, bed & breakfast
• Private coach travel
• Services of an experienced driver throughout your stay

Itinerary/Excursions

Hunterian Museum, Art Gallery & Mackintosh House

Dedicated to William Hunter, the Hunterian is the oldest museum in Scotland. All located on the campus of the University of Glasgow, visit the Museum, Art Gallery and Mackinstosh House for various exhibitions and displays.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum

Open since 1901, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is home not only to art and exhibits, but also to stunning architecure. A changing programme of exhibitions and displays means each time you visit no two things will be the same.

Gallery of Modern Art

The world class art museum displays artwork from around the world. Located in the centre of Glasgow, you will find four different galleries, a shop and a library to peruse.

House of an Art Lover & Burrels Collection

Designed in 1901, and opened in 1966, House of an Art Lover has a fascinating history which defines the pioneering creativity of Mackinstosh and the ambition and ingenuity of a group of dedicated artists and engineers who worked to complete his vision more than 70 years later. 

Please contact our Visits Secretary, Pauline: paulinespratt2@gmail.com or 01245 223660 for further details

Knole is a country house and former Archbishop's Palace situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent. It  has been the home of the Sackville family since 1603 .The house has remained more or less unaltered since that time and is a superb example of late medieval architecture, overlaid with Renaissance embellishment. It has recently been refurbished and has a fine collection of Stuart furnishings and art work.

The house apparently ranks in the top five of England's largest houses,

We will visit the House, Gatehouse, Deer Park and Conservation Studio

You can find more information about Knole on their website: Click Here

9.30am pickup at Little Baddow Memorial Hall and 9.45am at Galleywood

Tickets  £45 ( National Trust Members £30)

Please send cheque, payable to 'The Arts Society Mid Essex' together with a stamped, addressed envelope to:

Pauline Spratt,  7 Beaumont Park, Danbury, CM3 4DE

(Please print your name and pick up point on back of cheque)

Organiser Pauline Spratt, 01245 223660, paulinespratt2@gmail.com

2024 marks the 170th anniversary of the birth of Oscar Wilde: aesthete, writer, wit, social analyst, queer, martyr & the first modern celebrity..

Join award winning Arts Society Lecturer, London Blue Badge Guide (and Oscar devotee) Simon Whitehouse as he takes us back in time to the 'naughty nineties' & to Oscar Wilde's London.

Starting at Green Park, we explore elegant aristocratic Mayfair which provides the backdrop for many of Oscar's plays and characters.  We continue through Royal St James to visit the site of the fabled St James Theatre which saw the premiere of Oscar's greatest play The Importance of Being Earnest'.

After a lunch break near Trafalgar Square, we'll continue through Covent Garden to see Maggi Hambling's wonderful artistic homage to Oscar &the former site of Oscar's first London home.

Along the way, we'll discuss the London of the 'naughty nineties' & get a taste of Oscar's artistic world &his hedonistic, luxurious lifestyle in the form of galleries, shops, restaurants & hotels that still survive today...

Speaking of which, our walk ends outside one of London's newest hotels. Once the site of the Bow Street Police Station, this is where Oscar stood in the dock to face the most shocking and scandalous trial of the 19th century.

Date: 4th June 2024

Meet: 11 am Green Park Station (south side in the park by

the fountain)

Walk ends: Covent Garden Tube approx. 3.30 pm

This visit will be restricted to 25 people and we anticipate strong

support

To book your place Contact our Visits Secretary, Pauline Spratt:

paulinespratt2@gmail.com ; or

01245 223660 or 07342 671 465

We will make our way to London independently and meet at the café in Westminster Hall from 11.00am.

 Our Guide will meet us there at 12.00 and we will make our way to the Abbey for our tour.

The charge for entrance to the Abbey without guide would be £26 and there are often long queues but we will not have to queue since we will be part of a guided tour.

The maximum group size for this visit is 20 so please book your place as soon as possible to ensure your place.

Please send cheque to The Arts Society Mid Essex with sae to our organizer, Pauline Spratt, 7 Beaumont Park, Danbury CM3 4DE,  01245 223660, paulinespratt2@gmail.com

VISIT TO NORWICH

with a guided walking tour following the Guild of St George with Dr Alison Barker

 and Norwich Cathedral

Tuesday 3rd October 2023

Pick up from:

• Little Baddow Memorial Hall 8.30am
• Galleywood car park 8.45am

​£40

Tickets from Pauline Spratt 01245223660

paulinespratt2@gmail.com

A 5/6 day visit to Verona: 24th August 2023 - 29th August 2023

So much to see .... so little time

A visit to the opera La Traviata will be the highlight of the visit

More details of this visit and costs will be added when finalised.

A City and Village guided tour of churches in Romney Marsh and Rye including a fish and chip lunch at Dungeness

Coach from Little Baddow and Galleywood

The cost of this visit will be added when details are finalised.

Guided walking tour of some of Wren's churches in the city of London

with Tony Tucker, a Blue Badge Guide and Arts Society Lecturer

 Cost of Trip excluding train fare and lunch £15

We will meet Tony at St Paul’s Cathedral and he will give us an escorted walk around the Wren churches he told us about in his April talk and take us to an old City Pub for our lunch.

Meeting Guide Tony Tucker at 11am at St Paul’s Underground Station entrance.

 Individual Travel to London by Train

Guided tour of Ingatestone Hall in the morning followed by a tour of The Warner Textile Factory in Braintree in the afternoon

Coach from Little Baddow and Galleywood

Cost is £55.00 including tea at Warners

Lunch available at Ingatestone Hall 

Knole is a country house and former Archbishop's Palace situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent. It  has been the home of the Sackville family since 1603 .The house has remained more or less unaltered since that time and is a superb example of late medieval architecture, overlaid with Renaissance embellishment. It has recently been refurbished and has a fine collection of Stuart furnishings and art work.

The house apparently ranks in the top five of England's largest houses,

We will visit the House, Gatehouse, Deer Park and Conservation Studio

You can find more information about Knole on their website: Click Here

9.30am pickup at Little Baddow Memorial Hall and 9.45am at Galleywood

Tickets  £40  ( National Trust Members £25)

Please send cheque, payable to 'The Arts Society Mid Essex' together with a stamped, addressed envelope to:

Pauline Spratt,  7 Beaumont Park, Danbury, CM3 4DE

(Please print your name and pick up point on back of cheque)

Organiser Pauline Spratt, 01245 223660, paulinespratt2@gmail.com

CHRISTCHURCH MANSIONS IPSWICH & COLUMBINE HALL STOWMARKET

WEDNESDAY 16th JUNE

Morning visit to Christchurch Mansions and Art Gallery.

Lunch in the Cafe

Afternoon visit to Columbine Hall. The House dates from 1390 and is only occasionally open to the public. It is a grade II timber framed house surrounded by a defensive moat.

There is a guided tour by the hosts and visit to gardens

Tea and cakes at end of visit

Departure from Little Baddow Memorial Hall 9am Galleywood 9.15am

Tickets £37  Please send cheque to The Arts Society Mid Essex with sae to Pauline Spratt  7 Beaumont Park Danbury CM3 4DE

(Please print your name and pick up point on back of cheque)

Organiser Pauline Spratt 01245 223660 paulinespratt2@gmail.com

CITY AND VILLAGE TOUR TO SYON HOUSE AND LONDON’S ARCADIA

 WEDNESDAY 20thAPRIL

• Guided tour of Richmond with Blue Badge Guide
• Visit to Richmond Hill for Panorama of Thames Valley (London's Arcadia)
• Tour of Syon House and Gardens( Home of Duke of Northumberland)

 Depart Little Baddow Memorial Hall 8.30am Galleywood 8.45am

Tickets £54. Please send cheque made to Mid Essex Arts Society

to Pauline Spratt 7 Beaumont Park Danbury CM34DE

(please print name and pick up point on back of cheque and include sae)

 Visits Organiser Pauline Spratt Tel 01245223660 . paulinespratt2@gmail.com