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A grimmer Summer event
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Hello.
There’s
still time to book to join other Carlton le Willows alumni on this
year’s Summer Event. If you are a member of the Society or on
our mailing lists you will have already received full details and a
flyer/application form well before now.
Unfortunately
I have been unable to provide the Society with any web service at all since
Christmas owing to a serious and very unexpected illness being suffered by
my daughter. My wife and I have had
to support her and act as liaison with the hospital services as she hasn’t
been able to care for herself over this period and we’ve had to devote all
our time and energy to the emergency:
I apologise to you all and to Pat and the other committee members
organising the event for the trouble this has caused. At the moment my daughter is back in her
flat, and with her pain reasonably
well controlled she’s much more able to look after herself, so I’m doing what I can to provide
website readers with information they need and a copy of the booking
form. If you’re hoping to sign
up to come with us, it’s now very
close to the closing date, so it
would be advisable to send an email or contact the organisers by 'phone to
let us know you’re coming (see below).
Here’s
what’s on offer:
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The
date is Saturday, 9th
August, in the City of
Nottingham. We’ll meet at the
Broadmarsh Centre at 10:45 am to look down and explore the caves below the Broad
Marsh; then after lunch together at
the French Living restaurant in King Street we’ll look up with a guided
tour around the City centre.
Finally we’ll have refreshments at the Nottingham Contemporary
Gallery’s tea and coffee shop before going our separate ways or, for those who wish, there’ll be time for a brief visit to
the gallery itself. The guided tour
of the City will finish by 15:45 at the latest.
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The Tannery
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Access
to the caves is on the upper mall level of the Broadmarsh centre, close to the Broadmarsh and Fletcher
Gate car parks. We’ll assemble here
at 10:45 ready to start our tour at 11:00.
The known history of the caves we’ll explore goes back to the 11th
century and by the 17th century troglodytes were known to be
living here. Since then the caves
have been used for many things including factories, pub cellars and even air raid
shelters. So we’ll all go down to
the depths of town and be back in time for – well, lunch.
Visit
the official website at http://www.cityofcaves.com/ to learn more – these links open on a new tab.
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French Living
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Lunch
is at the French Living restaurant on King Street – a bistro-style French restaurant
which appears to have translated the name of the street it’s on back into
French. The tempting French-style
items on the constantly-changing menus might do the same to your eating
habits. Or not (I’ve never eaten
here myself). Prices are around £15
for a three-course lunch and you can see sample menus on their website http://frenchliving.co.uk/
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A Regency Lion
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At
13:45 we’ll join our guide to explore around the City centre and learn
about its acncient history – including perhaps the fact that the piece of
history represented by the picture on the left is not quite so ancient as
some suppose. It is nearly as young
as we are.
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Nottingham Contemporary Gallery
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After
our tour of the City centre, due to
end at 15:45, we’ll repair to the
coffee shop that forms part of the Nottingham Contemporary Gallery to say
our goodbyes, and then maybe some
will choose to visit some of the art on show – exhibitions change
constantly. We won’t have long –
the gallery closes at 17:00. To
find out what’s on, visit http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/
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All
are welcome to join us – members,
other past pupils or staff at the school, and their friend or partner.
But really hurry: the
official closing date for bookings is 27th. July together with a
£15 deposit for each person (which includes £5 for each tour and a minimum
payment of £5 for lunch) payable to
CLEWS (restaurant bills over £5 should be paid individually to the
restaurant).
If
it’s too late for that to happen you can email events@www.carltonlewillowsgs.org.uk
or telephone 0115 961 2511 or 0115 956 2322.
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Roger Pikett, November 2013
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If
you’re visiting our site or the first time, welcome.
We hope you enjoy what you find here.
We hope you’ll contribute to the site, too: post a message
for everyone to read (click Common
Room on the left) or
send us copy, images, or raw information to add to the features
we have already. I’m Roger (‘Prof’)
Pikett, a founder pupil at the School
and a member of the CLeWS committee.
You can email me at the site:
webmaster@carltonlewillowsgs.org.uk. The site now has two domain names – the
official one is “carltonlewillowsgs.org.uk”,
while the other is “carltonlewillows.org.uk”. This was done because many surfers leave
off the “gs”. Though you can reach
the website using either name, our
email addresses all use the official name,
with “gs” at the end, only.
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www.carltonlewillowsgs.org.uk
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