Diary Of Events

(If you would like to find out further details about the events below, please click on each individual event within the left hand menu bar)

Tutored Tasting & Light Lunch
Saturday, 11th September 2010

Grouse Dinner at Hambleton Hall
Wednesday, 22nd September 2010

Fungi-Foray & Lunch
Saturday, 9th October 2010

Palmer Sport Racing Day
Wednesday, 13th October 2010

Retro Wine Dinner at Hambleton Hall
Thursday, 21st October 2010

Christmas & Winter Parties at Hambleton Hall 2010/2011
November to January

Tutored Tasting & Light Lunch
Saturday, 6th November 2010

30th Anniversary Christmas Concert
Monday, 13th December 2010

New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance
Friday, 31st December 2010

Summer 2010

“We bin together nah for thirty years…an it don’t seem a day too much.” When I opened the doors of Hambleton Hall on 1st July 1980, the State was a much less effective nanny than now. The breathalyzer was not introduced until 1983 and in the same year it became compulsory for...

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Spring 2010

It’s Turtle Time “For Lo the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.”
(Song of Solomon 2:10) The great snow turned our landscape white on...

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Autumn 2009

It’s for the Birds Recently some giant earth moving machines have been constructing a giant swimming pool for ducks at Egleton end of Rutland Water. The explanation for this bizarre extravagance is that Anglian Water want to extract more water from the reservoir and the new lagoons have been built to ensure...

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Summer 2009

Noel Coward – He’s Back! Noel Coward was a precocious 15 year old would–be theatrical when he paid his first visit to Hambleton Hall as the guest of Eva Astley-Cooper. At the time he had had minimal exposure to the upper-class manners and wit of which Mrs Cooper was a brilliant exponent,...

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