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RHS London Club's Annual Dinner: Friday 20th March 2009

The RHS London Club's next Annual Dinner takes place on Friday 20th March 2009 from 6:30 for 7:30 pm on the eve of the Scotland vs England rugby international at Twickenham. The location for the Annual Dinner will be the Victory Services Club (VSC) in Seymour Street just a short walk from Marble Arch underground station. This will be our first Annual Dinner at the VSC but we know of its reputation as a private members club with 24,000 members, excellent catering facilities and very reasonably priced accommodation. We also expect to be joined at the Annual Dinner by a good number of our friends from the RHS Edinburgh Club who will be down in London for the rugby international. Please put this date in your diaries and Alex Prentice will be sending out further details before Xmas 2008.

Previous Events

Annual Drinks Party: Monday 10th November 2008

Our Annual Drinks Party was held, once again, at the Fleming Collection's gallery in Berkeley Street, Mayfair on Monday 10th November. We enjoyed wine, food and a guided introduction to the works of the Scottish Artist Joan Eardley (1921-1963) by one of the Fleming Collection's curators.

The fleming collection website has a short piece about the Joan Eardley exhibition, which we will see on November 10th.

2008 Annual Dinner

Annual Dinner 2008 - View the photos of the pre dinner ..then the dinner and speeches

Your Committee is very pleased to announce that we shall be holding our popular Annual Dinner on Friday March 7th, 2008 at the Cavendish Hotel 81, Jermyn Street, London SW1.

Tickets are available for members and their guests, from the Honorary Secretary, Alex Prentice

Dinner will be served from 7.30 p.m. but members and their partners/guests are warmly invited to gather from 6.30 p.m. in the First Floor Lounge for relaxed drinks, good conversation and some infectious sounds courtesy of Calum Lindsay (fiddle) and Andrew McMenamin (guitar).

We are delighted to announce that our Guest Speaker will be George Pascoe-Watson , the distinguished journalist, RHS FP and Political Editor of the Sun. No doubt George will be reflecting on his days at the High School in the 1980s and taking us on a guided tour behind the scenes at Westminster and down the corridors of power.

The Hotel bar will be open until 2:00 a.m. so be sure to allow time to linger in the Lounge to renew auld acquaintance.

Demand for this very special evening is bound to be high. The price of the three course dinner plus coffee and chocolates is �40 so, to be sure of your seat, please make your cheque payable to �The Royal High School Club in London� and send it to Alex Prentice, at 4, Archers Close,� Hertford, Herts.� SG14 3BD.

Annual Drinks Party

View the Photos from this event

You are most cordially invited to the Annual RHSCL Drinks Party to be held on Monday November 5th from 6.30. pm to 8.30. pm.

Once again we are returning to the prestigious Fleming Collection at 13, Berkeley Street, London W1. This autumn's highlight at the gallery is a major exhibition of the work of the celebrated nineteenth century artist William McTaggart, who is often dubbed The Scottish Impressionist and is recognised as a forerunner of the French Impressionist School. Among the paintings, watercolours and drawings assembled for the Fleming Collection, McTaggart's mastery of the landscape and the seascape will be particularly evident. This is an invaluable opportunity to see the first comprehensive gathering of McTaggart's work since a major exhibition in Edinburgh in 1989.

As ever there will be a brief but highly entertaining and informative talk on McTaggart given by Selina Skipworth, the Keeper of The Fleming Collection. Don't miss this chance of catching up with Royal High friends, old and new, over a delicious selection of sandwiches and canapes and a choice array of the finest wines.

Tickets are once more priced at �20 per head and you are most welcome to bring friends or family to the event. An order form will be sent out with a letter which you will shortly be receiving from us.

I'm looking forward enormously to catching up with you all on November 5th. It promises to be a great evening. Please let me know if there are any other details you need.

With many thanks and all good wishes

Annual Dinner 2007

Our popular Annual Dinner was held on Friday 2nd February 2007 at the Cavendish Hotel, 81 Jermyn Street, London SW1. Guests are gathered in the Electra Room for drinks, conversation and the sweet sounds of Emma-Jane Thommen, the club's very own sultry singer-songwriter.

Our Guest Speaker was the screenwriter Glenn Chandler, creater of STV's Taggart, who recalled his days at the High School in the 1960's and taking us behind the scenes of one of the world's longest-running detective series.

Photographs from this event can be viewed using this link .

Drinks Party 2006

The Annual Royal High School Club in London Drinks Party took place on Monday October 9th. This proved to be a most enjoyable event with copious quantities of wine and canapes served by the attentive gallery staff. Now you can view the photographs from the evening.