15 April: GNE lecture: “Ightham Mote: Upstairs & Downstairs”
venue: Grand Hotel l’Empereur, Maastricht (opp. Railway station)
date :Tues. 15 April 2008. [8-10 p.m., with a break around 9p.m.]
“Ightham Mote: Upstairs & Downstairs”
Ightham Mote (near Sevenoaks in the County of Kent) was originally a 14th century fortified manor house, owned by Sir Thomas Cawne. Built in 1340, the square platform encased by a wide moat [medieval spelling is ‘mote’], supported an open hall, the Old Chapel with a crypt beneath it and two solar ranges. In the late 15th
century, Edward Haut founded the quadrangular stronghouse, which enclosed the courtyard and added an outer quadrangle of lodgings and stables.
The speaker: Mrs Heather Woodward
A retired Senior Teacher of French in a Grammar School & Head of 6th Form, she was delighted to be recruited for the National Trust to become one of its volunteer speakers in the South of England. She enjoys doing research into the N.T. Estates etc as well as being involved in (directing) various amateur musical shows, dramatics, painting etc.
It shall be an entertaining & slide-illustrated talk on the life of servants & nobility of the beautiful manor of Ightham Mote!
Entrance fee for non-members: €5 each, students €4.
[limited number of seats, please make a reservation see contact details below]
For further information, please contact:
Secretary: Jennifer deFeyter-Vidler, Tel.#: 043-3640.798;
Chairman : T. Snyders, tsnyders@planet.nl
Treasurer: Hub Stevens, Tel.#: 046-4747.139
MembershipSecr.: Davina Mommers-Koppers, Tel.#: 0032-12-261183
G.N.E. Limburg / Netherlands-England Society, Limburg branch
www.bbcawards.com
