Lymington Society Committee have been approached by the St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery who intend to submit a planning application for a new frontage to the Museum. (Click on either of the above images to see a larger version.)

The Committee have discussed this and, without passing any opinion one way or the other, feel that the right approach for this design would be for the Society to canvass the views of its members and to hold a meeting for a presentation by the Museum and/or the architect.

The St Barbe Museum would like this meeting relatively soon and we have arranged the meeting for:

10 February at 6:30 PM in the Fuller McLennan Hall at the Community Centre.

All members are welcome to attend and no tickets will be issued so just turn up on the night. If you have any questions do contact any Committee member.

Update 8th February 2015

In order to provide some background information on the application, a letter from David Rule Chairman of the Lymington Museum Trust can be found here. It is well worth reading this in advance of the meeting.

Members will have received their newsletter by post now but an electronic copy is available to view here.

It contains details of the Society’s recent activities and updates on the forthcoming range of social activities.

The primary purpose of the Society is to protect and enhance the character of Lymington. In that it needs the support of a wide base of members. Those members need to feel involved and that has always been achieved by the Lymington Society through social events.

The difficulty has always been to find someone to organise those events particularly in a predominantly male committee. For the past several years Don has fulfilled that role admirably with his ability to encourage people to involve themselves with events and his unerring nose for the sort of events, subjects and venues which will attract people.

Under his guidance those events have fallen into a pattern of the summer garden party at various venues and the Stanwell House Christmas party and numerous lectures and events in between. Notable events have been visits to the Berthon Boat Company and a series of talks and exhibitions at the St Barbe Museum

These events did not happen by themselves. They need research and organisation of dates and venues and invitations and the food and drink and last but not least the clearing up afterwards, hopefully assisted by other members of the committee, but ultimately Don’s responsibility supported by Yvonne.

In spite of Don’s threats we have not lost his services as a committee member yet, but with the arrival of Pam Morrisey on the committee recently she has accepted the challenge to run the social committee, and over the past two or three months has played herself into the role with Don’s help and will be taking over the organisation of social events from now on.

The Committee and the Society are extremely grateful to Don and Yvonne for having carried out this role for many years so effectively and with such dedication.

Clive Sutton

Chairman

The project management will be holding its first ‘Volunteers’ Weekend’ at the Walhampton site over the weekend 3rd/4th January. All adults are welcome to join in and shed a few Christmas calories in the interests of improving the appearance of the Monument’s surroundings!

The very-experienced ‘Hampshire Conservation Volunteers‘ are visiting for the weekend and ‘locals’ are invited to work alongside them. Find out more below

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January 6th St Barbe Museum – Lives Less Ordinary

As we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Sir Harry Burrard Neale we could not let an opportunity such as this exhibition pass us by. Whilst this features a variety of historic and contemporary local figures we will be given a guided tour by each of the special researchers and have an opportunity to view the famous Nore Drum on loan from the Maritime Museum at Greenwich.

Meet at 6pm in the Gallery for refreshments. Tickets £5.00

All Tickets available from:

Solent House Dental Surgery, Cannon St, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 9BR
or
Clive Sutton Solicitors, 3 The Old Printworks, 85b High St Lymington, SO41 9AN

December 16th Christmas Drinks Party – Stanwell Hotel 6.00 – 8.00pm

Once again our big social event of the year will be held at Stanwell House Lymington High Street. As usual Stanwells will be serving a delicious selection of canapés and wines and the Committee look forward to meeting as many members as
possible.

Members are welcome to bring quests.

Tickets £7.50 with a limited number available on the door

All Tickets available from:

Solent House Dental Surgery, Cannon St, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 9BR
or
Clive Sutton Solicitors, 3 The Old Printworks, 85b High St Lymington, SO41 9AN

October 14th St Barbe Museum – Nocturnal Encounters

Members are invited to a guided tour of this fascinating exhibition of wood engravings by the world famous print maker and artist Colin See-Paynton.

Colin uses his knowledge and meticulous observational skills to construct engravings that link species and their natural habitats.Meet at 6pm in the Gallery for refreshments before our guide for the evening Steve Marshall gives us an in depth tour of the exhibition.

Starts 6pm. Tickets £5.00

All Tickets available from:

Solent House Dental Surgery, Cannon St, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 9BR
or
Clive Sutton Solicitors, 3 The Old Printworks, 85b High St Lymington, SO41 9AN

Here is the latest planning list that was discussed at the July Committee Meeting. To view it click here.