Known in the Marlborough community as a historical author, former Mayor, and Wiltshire Councillor, Nick Fogg has been elected a Fellow of the RHS. Founded in 1868, the RHS is a successful learned society, membership organisation, and charity with a 150-year history. The award is in relation to the importance of his increasing number of […]
We are delighted to invite you to a combined Digital, Science, Technology and Engineering professional networking event on Thursday 13th October from 6.30pm. The event will take place at the Antelope pub near Sloane Square and we will be discussing the topic of Solar Innovation. This event will be an excellent opportunity to meet, network and […]
Based on the BBC Radio 4 comedy by Mark Evans, the Watermill theatre presented Bleak Expectations. An imitation of the work of Charles Dickens, taking its name from Bleak House and Great Expectations, Bleak Expectations tells the story of young Pip Bin; a tragic half orphan, hopeless romantic and would-be-hero. Having graduated in 2021 from […]
Following the very sad news of the death of Her Majesty The Queen as a mark of respect we will not be going ahead with the Marlburian Monday talk entitled ‘My Oar-Some Adventure: Rowing Across the Atlantic’ by Lebby Eyres (C2 1987-89) at 8pm on Monday 12th September.
Ian was born in 1923 in Brasted, Kent, and grew up at Thatches, the thatched house built for his parents on nearby Brasted Chart by his maternal grandfather. His younger brother Christopher was born four years later, with Treacher-Collins syndrome, a rare calcium deficiency which required a great deal of medical care, special schools, and […]
EMMY and BAFTA winning company Talesmith, founded by Martin Williams (TU 1987-92), has recently been involved in the holographic speech delivered by President Zelenksy at Founders Forum London. Talesmith is also due to produce a documentary about the conflict. Martin has been on location in Ukraine with President Zalensky, along with a local team and […]
Playing the part of Prospero, Nicholas Woodeson (B2 1963-67) is staring in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Theatre Royal, Bath. Set on an enchanted island The Tempest deals with magic, love, treachery, transformations, the visible and the invisible. As with all his ‘late plays’, man’s complex and troubled journey from the desire for revenge to […]
Born in Radlett, Hertfordshire, his father was a family doctor of a Yorkshire family and his mother Scottish, born in Cardross. Having found letters written from the trenches in WW1, he published his father’s letters in a small book entitled “From Trench to Sky”, as his father, having been badly wounded in the Somme, joined […]
Robin was born in Putney on 26th April 1931 to Gordon and Rosemary Ferguson and brought up in Reigate. He was educated at Coniston then Hillside, Reigate then boarded at St Peter’s, Seaford from the age of eight. His school was evacuated to North Devon from 1940-1944 and during that time he lived with a […]
West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin (LI 1975-77) unveiled a plaque to celebrate Malvern suffragette Elsie Howey on the anniversary of women first being given the right to vote on the same basis as men in elections. Harriett was invited to unveil the plaque by Malvern Civic Society, marking the efforts of the clergyman’s daughter who […]