CAVERSHAM HEIGHTS SOCIETY
|| 2009-2010 Programme || Visits & News ||
It is with great regret that we have to announce that, after a short illness, Martyn Allies, for many years our Chairman, died in the Royal Berkshire Hospital during the night of 24/25 January 2010.
A Thanksgiving Service will be held at 3.15pm on Friday, 12 February at Caversham Heights Methodist Church.
There will also be a Civic Memorial Service at 2.30pm on Saturday, 13 March at 2.30pm at the Minster Church of St Mary.
The family is most grateful for the very many letters and cards of condolence they have received, unfortunately too numerous to acknowledge individually.
A formal tribute to Martyn, together with fuller information about the arrangements and donation recipients, can be seen by clicking HERE, but the best tribute our members can give him is to keep this society going strongly for many years to come.
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The society meets twice monthly on Wednesday evenings from September to March/April, for talks and presentations on a wide range of subjects. We also arrange visits to theatres and places of interest together with a four-day 'mini-holiday' usually in May. The talks and presentations, fourteen in number and mostly illustrated, are given by invited speakers. The venue is:
Caversham Heights Methodist Church Hall
74 Highmoor Road, Caversham, Reading, RG4 7BG
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Our 2009 MINI-HOLIDAY, from 8th to 11th May, to Derbyshire was based on the Holiday Inn, Sandiacre. From there we visited various places of interest in the area including Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum, Northamptonshire. Further pictures of the holiday can be seen by clicking on the link below.
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Stoke Bruerne on the Grand Union Canal |
A nearby picturesque cottage |
Our 35th season commencd at 7.30pm on Wednesday, 16th September 2009 with a short AGM
followed at 8pm with a talk by Peter Bean entitled:
A Personal Illustrated History of Salisbury
This talk was extremely interesting and Peter Bean has kindly put together a walking tour of Salisbury (plus map) illustrating many of the places of interest he covered in his talk. This can be accessed as a pdf file by clicking HERE
Numbers are limited by the size of the hall but there still some vacancies for the present season.
The
subscription for 2009-2010 is 
13
per person.
If you wish to contact us, or are interested in joining, please telephone 0118 934 5004 or e-mail by clicking HERE
Membership is NOT restricted to residents of Caversham.
There are many other activities and events going on in Caversham, also a variety of shops and eating places. Full information, including some very interesting historical facts, can be found on Caversham's very own websites at:
www.caversham.org.uk, www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/rg4
and
Updated 7 January 2010
The drawing of the bridge is attributed to Pat Barker whom we are unable to trace.
