Walks and Talks



1st August, 2.30pm
Heath & Hampstead Society Walk: “The Heath Extension”
led by Tony Ghilchik, Vice-Chairman of the Heath & Hampstead Society and Chairman of the Heath Sub-Committee; he also represents the Society on the City of London Heath Management Committee. £2. 020 8455 1025 or 07941 528 034. Meet at the cattle trough in Spaniards Road, near the Spaniards Inn.


19th August, 5pm
A Talk given by Architects Zdenek Lukes and Eva Jiricna
in conjunction with the Exhibition Retro Expo - Homage to Glass 2010 on display in the Art Gallery 11th-29th August. FREE entrance. For more information email eurartvision@seznam.cz.


5th September, 10.30am
Heath & Hampstead Society Walks: a choice of two held concurrently from different start points
Both at £2. Details from 020 8455 1025 or 07941 528 034.

(1) Meet at Burgh House: “Birds of the Heath in Autumn”
led by John Hunt, Heath Sub-Committee member and former chairman of the Marylebone Birdwatching Society, and Sash Tusa, member of the H&HS Sub-Committee.

(2) Meet at the Kenwood Kitchen Garden entrance, Hampstead Lane: “Fungus Foray”
led by Andy Overall, Group Leader, London Fungus Group, and founder of “Fungi to be with”. Booking essential, priority to H&HS members (opens 1 August).


21st September, 9am
COACH OUTING to Wimpole Hall and Gardens (National Trust) and Royston, Cambridgeshire
Leaving from outside Waterstone’s in Hampstead High Street. Open to all, this excursion links the last resident of Burgh House (Elsie Bambridge) with Wimpole Hall, which she eventually bought and made her home. Tickets £28, or for members of the National Trust £20 (bring your NT membership card). Bookings with cheques in favour of Friends of Burgh House, with SAE please, to Jean Archer, 91 Fitzjohns Avenue, London NW3 6NX, telephone 020 7435 5490.


30th September, 6.45 to 8pm
Underground to Hampstead: 100 years in Posters
Talk by Claire Dobbin, Senior Curator at London Transport Museum, £4.


24th October, 2 to 4pm
Family Event: Making Trains
craft afternoon, £3 per child.