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Saturday 19 June 2010
AP Curry Luncheon
Venue: Weston, CT, USA
Time: 1230 hrs
Further details & booking contact
Ed Bok.
Saturday 19 June 2010
Bodleian Library Tour & Oxford Pub Lunch
*** EVENT CANCELLED ***
We hope to rearrange this tour at a future date.
Saturday 26 June 2010
Extraordinary London Group Pub Meet
*** EVENT CANCELLED ***
For personal reasons Nick Birns is unfortunately unable to be in London.
We hope to rearrange this meeting at a future date.
Saturday 14 August 2010
London Group Quarterly Pub Meet
Venue: The Audley, Mount Street, London, W1
Time: 1230 to 1530 hrs
Join us for good drink, good food, good company and Powell chat
in a Victorian pub which AP would have known.
Open to members & non-members.
Booking not required.
Further details from
Keith Marshall.
Saturday 23 October 2010
Whitechapel Bell Foundry Tour
Venue: Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32/34 Whitechapel Road, London E1
Time: 0930 hrs
Cost: £10 per person
The Guinness Book of Records lists the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
as Britain's oldest manufacturing company,
having been established in 1570 (during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I)
and being in continuous business ever since.
An unusual tour of this working foundry
which is a genuine part of Britain's cultural heritage
and gives an intriguing look at the quintessentially English art of bell-ringing.
All welcome.
Advanced booking (with payment) essential as places are strictly limited.
For further details & booking contact
Keith Marshall.
Saturday 23 October 2010
10th Annual General Meeting
Venue: V&A Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green Road, London, E2
Time: 1400 hrs
AGM will be followed at 1500hrs with a talk
"Anthony Powell's Edwardian Childhood" by Noreen Marshall, Senior Curator, V&A Museum of Childhood.
Members only at the AGM; all welcome at the talk
Further details from
Keith Marshall.
Saturday 13 November 2010
London Group Quarterly Pub Meet
Venue: The Audley, Mount Street, London, W1
Time: 1230 to 1530 hrs
Join us for good drink, good food, good company and Powell chat
in a Victorian pub which AP would have known.
Open to members & non-members.
Booking not required.
Further details from
Keith Marshall.
Friday 19 November 2010
Anthony Powell Annual Lecture
"The End of the Dance"
to be given by The Earl of Gowrie
Venue: The Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London, W1
Time: 1830 hrs
Cost: £12.50 (includes a glass of wine)
Booking essential.
Tickets from the Hon. Secretary on 020 8864 4095 or
secretary@anthonypowell.org.
Lord Gowrie will discuss the end of the Dance sequence,
its relationship to contemporary experiences of the ’60s
and to the finale of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu.
Lord Gowrie held several posts in Margaret Thatcher’s government
including a period as Minister for the Arts.
He is also a former Chairman of the Arts Council and of Sotheby’s.
A friend of the Powells, he has long been a devotee of Dance.
The Wallace Collection’s restaurant will be open following the lecture for those who wish to dine.
Table booking on 020 7563 9505.
Saturday 4 December 2010
London Group Anthony Powell Birthday Lunch
Venue: tba
Time: 1200 for 1230 hrs
The London Group's annual celebration of Powell's birthday and marriage.
The venue will be a moderately priced restaurant, probably in central London.
Open to members & non-members.
Further details when available from
Keith Marshall.
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Interior of The Audley,
meeting place for the London Group,
on a typical Saturday lunchtime.
Note the original Victorian ceiling,
chandelier and pannelling.
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