Lectures, Walks and Talks - Trust Annual Report 1990
Once again there has been a full programme to suit a variety of tastes. Last September Robin Freeman led the second of two walkabouts in Winchester viewing works by Owen Browne Carter, and this was followed by a fascinating talk on the restoration of Georgian Townhouses by Hugh Parissien, Secretary of the Georgian Group. At our A.G.M. in October Mr. Maldwin Drummond, Chairman of Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust, talked to a large audience about the work of the HBPT, a valued ally of the Trust.
Successful talks were given to members by Michael Jackson, Secretary of St. John's Trust, on the role of St. John's Winchester Charity and by Mrs. Elizabeth Proudman on Winchester in the Civil War (this was a sell-out and is to be repeated this November) as well as by Mrs. Lesley Benson on Victorians at Leisure. On 31st August the President of the Trust and Lady Ramsbotham opened their gardens at East Lane, Ovington to the Trust and some 50 members spent a delightful evening there.
Mrs. Ann Jones who has been Programme Secretary for over two years has decided to stand down. We are very grateful to her for running this very important side of the Trust's activities during this period and for providing such a stimulating number of events. The task of the Programme Secretary is not an easy one particularly since there is remarkably little feed back from members who, quite unpredictably, may either vote with their feet by staying away from a particular event, or attend in such numbers that latecomers have to be turned away at the door. We found Ann Jones, to whom we are deeply grateful, irreplaceable and partly for this reason and partly because the programme is closely linked with activities of the Urban Studies Committee, that Committee has very kindly agreed to take the organisation of the Programme under its capacious wing in future.