Lecture Group
We were very lucky to have been able to hold the March Lecture group meeting at the URC just a few weeks before the nationwide lockdown. It was a great talk by Mike Beech on ‘Secret London’ I will certainly invite him back in the future as he does quite a few other talks which I am sure everyone will like.
Normally our Monthly Lectures start in October through to March the following year, but No meeting in January, so five winter talks/lectures in all.
I am certain everyone is aware of the Covid situation with ever changing Lockdown rules & Local Lockdowns.
Therefore I am sadly suspending the Lecture group meetings until further notice. I can’t give you a specific date when it will resume, it all depends on the virus and social distancing measures. However if I made a guess it would be perhaps Autumn 2021.
Graham Tarling (Lecture Group Manager )
Lecture series
Usually meet at the United Reformed Church, Ickenham.
£2 entry ISHS Members, £3 non members, includes tea & biscuits.
Contact Graham Tarling for more information on lectures@ickenham-horticultural.org.uk or 07985 470025
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warm wecome to our Lecture
group and myself Graham
Tarling. I've been running the Lecture group since April 1997, when I
took over
from Bert Simpkins. The
first lecture I organised in October 1997 was Called 'Four Seasons at
Windsor',
presented by Len Critchlow,
and was about Saville Gardens, Windsor.
Our Lecture group programme
starts In October, through
to March, except January
because of expected bad weather, in all it is five meetings, unless I
decide to do an extra, which
I have done on occasions,
and always give that talk myself.
s
far as I am concerned. the
reason my predecessor asked me to take over the group was because of my
Horticultural qualifications,
and background. Over the
years I have managed to collect numerous City & Guilds
qualifications, and an Ordinary National
Diploma in Amenity
Horticulture which was obtained at Writtle College Chelmsford. I also
hold a national Chainsaw Certificate
and a Spray certificate,
and I now have 36 years experience in the industry. For the last 11
years I have been self
employed maintaining
private gardens In Ickenham & Ruislip.
Please do
come along to our talks,
they are well worth going to, and if you do need any horticultural
advice please feel free to contact
me, ( as long as you are a
member of our society of course )
Happy
Gardening, Graham Tarling