2012 Events
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Last updated 3rd February 2012
February
1st FIFTY YEARS OF FASHION - Cleveland College of Art & Design
9th TITANIC - Gainsborough Ladies Luncheon Club
Tel Mrs Margaret Toyne (01427) 811395
10th TITANIC - Titanic Heritage Trust, Coventry Blue Coat C of E School
7.30pm performance Tel 02476 236556
http://www.titanicheritagetrust.org.uk
25th TITANIC - Wetherby Rotary Club
March
3rd FABULOUS FIFTIES - Knayton Village Hall, North Yorkshire
Evening set as 1950s prom. 7.30pm
performance
Tel Christine Goldsmith (01845) 537653
8th VOTES FOR WOMEN! - Teeside University
6pm performance
14th VOTES FOR WOMEN! - Townswomens Guild, Stadium of Light
Sunderland
16th TITANIC - Ambleside Kirkstone Rotary Club, Ambleside Parish Centre
Contact Julie Wright, the Waterwheel Ambleside Tel (01539) 433286
21st TITANIC - North Staffordshire Federation of Townswomen's Guilds
Best Western Hotel, Stoke-on-Trent, afternoon performance
contact Jean Condliffe (o1782) 776087 jean63@talktalk.net
24th TITANIC - Red House Museum, Gomersal
2pm performance red.house@kirklees.gov.uk
http://www.kirklees.gov.uk
29th STORY OF THE WHITE WEDDING - Gateshead Central Library
6.30pm performance helen.eddon@gateshead.gov.uk
Tel Helen Eddon (0191) 4338407
30th TITANIC - City Library, Sunderland, 10.30am performance
tel Kate McCubbin (0191) 5618492
31st TITANIC - Washington Library, Sunderland, 1.30pm performance
Tel. Karen Newton (0191) 5613441
April
1st TITANIC - The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent
2pm performance
3rd TITANIC - Bettys Tearooms, York - Belmont Room
7.30pm dinner & performance
Tel. Bettys York (01904) 659142
10th TITANIC - Gateshead Central Library
6.30pm performance jenifermaughan@gateshead.gov.uk
Tel (0191) 4338403
11th TITANIC - Bettys Tearooms, Harrogate, Imperial Suite
7.30pm dinner & performance
Tel. Bettys Harrogate (01423) 814070
12th TITANIC - Lichfield Library Tel (01543) 510700
mailto:lichfield.library@staffordshire.gov.uk 7.30pm performance
14th TITANIC - The Cross Barn, Palace gate, Odiham, Hampshire
6.30pm performance * special fundraising event *
Tel. Michael Drayton (01256) 703873
15th TITANIC - The Cross Barn, Palace gate, Odiham, Hampshire
6.30pm performance * special fundraising event *
Tel. Michael Drayton (01256) 703873
17th TITANIC - Aire & Went Ladies Luncheon Club, Pontefract
Lunchtime performance marion.procter@btopenworld.com
19th TITANIC - Harrogate Museums & Arts
2pm performance, St Wilfred's Church, Duchy Rd Harrogate
Tel (01423) 556188
20th TITANIC - TLC Charity fundraising event, Halifax Town Hall
Tel TLC (01484) 711260 contact@tlccharity.co.uk
7.30pm performance
21st TITANIC - Lutterworth Embroiderer's Guild
Wycliffe Methodist Church, Lutterworth
Tel Wendy Bates (01455) 290426 bosworthpark@btinternet.com
23rd FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE - Stockton Central Library
7.30pm performance. Part of a Dickens-themed celebration of World
Book Night Tel. Claire Pratt (01642) 528044
claire.pratt@stockton.gov.uk
24th TITANIC - Sheffield & SE Fed Townswomens' Guild
Carlton Park Hotel, Rotherham 2.15pm performance
Tel Rowena Clarke (01709) 545749
rowena@magnahill.plus.com
25th TITANIC - Heart of Tyne WI, Stocksfield Institute
dewhurstmargaret@yahoo.co.uk 7.30pm performance
26th TEA GOWNS & TEATIME - unique talk celebrating 1937 for
Bettys of York 75th Anniversary - special Cream Tea talk
Yorkshire Life Readers event - Tel. (01423) 814000
Tickets on sale after February 25th
28th PORTRAIT OF A LADY - Wallington (NT) Northumberland
Performances at 12.30pm & 2.30pm
Tel (01670) 773602 wallington@nationaltrust.org.uk
29th PORTRAIT OF A LADY - Wallington (NT) Northumberland
Performances at 12.30pm & 2.30pm
Tel (01670) 773602 wallington@nationaltrust.org.uk
May
4th JANE AUSTEN'S 'LADIES OF A CERTAIN AGE' - Cockermouth
Georgian Festival - 7pm performance, Christchurch, South Street
Tel. The Kirkgate Centre (01900) 826448
5th WARTIME WEDDING - Blaydon Craft Class, Lucy St Chapel, Blaydon
Tel Margaret Coates (0191) 4402026
6th FABULOUS FIFTIES - National Museum of Rural Life, Glasgow
Daytime performances contact Chris Waddell c.waddell@nms.ac.uk
9th STORY OF THE WHITE WEDDING - Scunthorpe & District Ladies
Luncheon club, Wortley House Hotel Scunthorpe
Tel Phyllis Taylor (01724) 710025 phyltay@supanet.com
10th TITANIC - Middlesbrough Central Library details tbc
http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/libraries
Tel. (01642) 729409
12th TITANIC - Belsay Hall, Northumberland
3 performances between 12pm & 4pm
Tel. Belsay Hall (01661) 881636 http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/belsay-hall-castle-and-gardens/
13th TITANIC - Belsay Hall, Northumberland
3 performances between 12pm & 4pm
Tel. Belsay Hall (01661) 881636 http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/belsay-hall-castle-and-gardens/
14th TITANIC - NSPCC fundraising lunch at Solberge Hall Hotel,
Northallerton. Tel Alison Bosomworth (01609) 772697
or Josie Exelby (01609) 748270
19th TITANIC - Daphne du Maurier Festival - details tbc
20th TITANIC - Tremough Campus Festival, University of Exeter
The Chapel Lecture Theatre, 12 noon performance
liz.holland@exeter.ac.uk Tel (01326) 371805
June
3rd FABULOUS FIFTIES - Potteries Museum, Stoke on Trent
http://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag
Tel (01782) 232323 museums@stoke.gov.uk
2pm performance... Celebrate the Queen's Jubilee!
6th TITANIC - Woodhall Spa Wednesday Club
Lunchtime performance mo.gay@btinternet.com Tel (01326) 352770
7th FABULOUS FIFTIES - Wallsend Library, Tyne & Wear
Tel Joanna Parker (0191) 6432075
joanna.parker@northtyneside.gov.uk
9th OH MY POOR NERVES! - NAFAS, Majestic Hotel, Harrogate
Afternoon presentation for NAFAS conference
10th FABULOUS FIFTIES - St Albans Museum, details tbc
13th TITANIC - West Yorkshire Fed WI, East Keswick Village Hall
2.30pm performance Tel (0113) 2550810
15th FABULOUS FIFTIES - Bettys Tearooms, York, Belmont Room
7.30pm dinner and performance
Tel. Bettys York (01904) 659142
16th TITANIC - Costume & Textile Association, St Giles Rooms, Norwich
Tel Barbara Coe (01603) 745766
22nd TITANIC - Wirral Federation of Townswomen's Guilds
The Grange, Wirral. Lunchtime presentation
Tel. Vera Platt (0151) 6772910
27th OH MY POOR NERVES! - WoW group, Woodhouse Close Library
Bishop Auckland. 1pm presentation
Contact Joan Gordon, jrgolo@hotmail.com
28th STORY OF THE WHITE WEDDING - Whinstone View, Great Ayton
* special fundraising event for
Holistic Cancer Care Centre,
Middlesbrough * Tel Lynne Gray (01642) 854839
lynne.gray@stees.nhs.uk Luncthime event, 1.30pm presentation
July
20th TITANIC - Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham, Burnley
7pm performance Tel. (01282) 771004
22nd FABULOUS FIFTIES - National Museum of Costume, Scotland
Shambellie House, Dumfries,Tel. Bryony Hope (0300) 1236789
12.30 & 2.30pm performances
August
15th AGATHA CHRISTIE & ART DECO ** Premiere **
Frazer Theatre, Knaresborough
7.30pm performance http://www.feva.info
26th PORTRAIT OF A LADY - Fountains Abbey Banqueting House (NT)
Performances at 1pm and 3pm http://www.fountainsabbey.org.uk
fountainsabbey@nationaltrust.org.uk Tel (01765) 643164
September
1st JANE AUSTEN'S 'LADIES OF A CERTAIN AGE'
Jane Austen Society, York. 2pm performance
Tel. Marilyn Joice (0113) 2680431
6th FABULOUS FIFTIES - St Mary's Church, Cottingham, Hull
Tel. Val Wright (01482) 843976 wright2@wright2.karoo.co.uk
7.30pm performance (tbc)
20th TITANIC - Highworth Historical Society
tel Kay Brown, secretary (01793) 763274
7.30pm performance
21st JANE AUSTEN'S 'LADIES OF A CERTAIN AGE'
Jane Austen Festival, Bath Theatre Royal, details tbc
22nd TITANIC - Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival - details tbc
25th TITANIC - Durham County Federation WI, Spennymoor
durhamwi@btconnect.com 7pm performance
26th TITANIC - Townswomen's Guild, Worcester Cathedral
Tel. Vera Rigby (01457) 873560 verarigby@talktalk.net
2pm performance
October
10th TITANIC - Borders Decorative & Fine Arts Society
Gunsgreen House, nr Berwick 11.30am performance
18th 85 YEARS, A CELEBRATION THROUGH FASHION
Special Birthday Celebration of Winteringham WI
7.30pm presentation jennydog@talktalk.net
Tel. Christine Hammond (01724) 733641
November
3rd WARTIME WEDDING - Washburn Heritage Centre
details tbc
14th TITANIC - Townswomen's Guild conference
The Queen's Hotel, Leeds. 2.15pm performance
26th AGATHA CHRISTIE & ART DECO - Harrogate Museums
'Primetime' lecture series - details tbc.
More 2012 dates to follow soon...
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