Hello!
Welcome to Wednesday Wishes.
Southern Trains continue to operate a ’special timetable’. We escaped up to York for a few days to see Teen One and visited the York Art Gallery for the first time, it is free and has an excellent collection of ceramics. York Minster was in fine voice with a special bell peal for the Platinum Jubilee, you could hear the bells all over the City it gave a real sense of just how much the Minster must have dominated the medieval city.
Back in London I spent Tuesday criss crossing the Thames. Starting at the London Transport Museum for Legacies: London Transport’s Caribbean Workforce and then over to the Hayward for Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child. Today I’m headed for South Kensington to the Science Museum for Stephen Hawking’s Office and then the V&A for Beatrix Potter.
Sad news this week, Bamber Gascoigne has died. When I was small he presented University Challenge and I used to feel chuffed if I even got one answer right. As a grown up I met him in the very early days of Catherine’s Cultural Wednesdays. He had inherited his aunts house and was auctioning he contents to pay for its restoration and eventual opening as an arts venue. West Horsely Place now has an opera house in the grounds, is the location for the excellent Ghosts and host to numerous events. What a legacy and what an exceptionally nice man.
Happy Culturing
Catherine