• Bristol and Bath
• Dorset
• Gloucestershire
• Hampshire
• Somerset
• Wiltshire

Bristol and Bath

BOWRING, Mrs Ann

Former Custodian, Clevedon Court
'Tynwald', 40 Hillcrest Road, Portishead BS20 8HP
Tel: (01275) 848347

• Clevedon Court – A Medieval Exploration.
• A Gift Relationship - volunteers and volunteering.
• Living Over The Shop - Clevedon Court: An Administrators story.
• The Flight Of The King – Charles II escape from the Battle of Worcester through England.
• The Gunpowder Plot – the people, the places and the plot revealed.
• Secret Hiding Places – a country house tells its story
• The Triangular Run – the slave trade and the diary of a former slave.
• A Dutch Experience: Dyrham Park And The Netherlands.
• The Bayeux Tapestry.
• Tyntesfield - a gothic gem.
• Tyntesfield - the family.

BOWRING, Mr David

Chairman Weston super Mare Association
'Tynwald', 40 Hillcrest Road, Portishead BS20 8HP
Tel: (01275) 848347

• Countryside For All – conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• For Ever for Everyone – the National Trust.
• Neptune Coastline Campaign – the protection and preservation of our precious coastline.
• A Second Home - Wallington, Northumberland.
• Seabritain and the National Trust - some maritime connections revealed.

CARRUTHERS, Mrs Angela

Bristol Centre committee member
9 Surrey Road, Bishopston, Bristol, BS7 9DT
Tel: (0117) 9442264

• Neptune Coastline Campaign.

HOPKINS-CLARKE MA, Mrs Ann

Granville Lodge, Entry Hill Drive, Bath BA2 5NJ.  Tel & Fax 01225 464877.

• The Restoration of Prior Park and its Landscape Garden.
• Ernest E. Cook (1865-1955) - Benefactor to the National Trust and Grandson of the founder of Thomas Cook and Son.
• Bath Assembly Rooms

NELMS, Mr Chris

Solna, Lodge Lane, Wraxall, Somerset, BS48 2BB
Tel: (01275) 853797

• Tyntesfield House

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Dorset

COPE, Colin

Custodian of White Mill - Kingston Lacy Estate
White Mill, Sturminster Marshall, Wimborne BH21 4BX
Tel (01258) 858051

• A Mill on the Stour.

HALLETT, Mr John

103 Brassey Road, Winton, Bournemouth, BH9 1PS
Tel: (01202) 538183

• National Trust Houses – in the Wessex Region (others on request).
• National Trust Gardens - in the Wessex Region (others on request).
• The National Gardens Scheme – 73 Years of Gardening Excellence.
• The National Trust Coast and Countryside.
• Art in Trust – The wonderful world of National Trust paintings.
• Looking Along the Bookshelves – National Trust Libraries.
• The Dorset Coast - Exploration along the ‘World Heritage Site’.
• Tyntesfield - a hidden house revealed.

HUNTER, Miss Rosemary

South Dorset Association President
8 Southcroft Road, Weymouth DT4 9EB
Tel: (01305) 786240

• The National Trust in Wessex.
• The Bankes Legacy.
• Writers’ Homes and Gardens.
• Neptune Coastline Campaign.
• Gardens of the National Trust.
• The Woman’s Domain - based on NT book – Women and English Country Houses by Trevor Lummis and Jan Marsh.

SMITH, Mr David

Kingston Lacy Estate Warden
Home Farm, Abbott Street, Pamphill, Wimborne, BH21 4EG
Tel: (01202) 840630

• Kingston Lacy Estate Countryside Conservation.
• Wildflower and Wildlife of Badbury Rings.

WHYTE, Mr Doug

Corfe Castle, Corfe, Wareham, BH20 5EZ
Tel: (01929) 481294

• The Purbeck Estate.
• Corfe Castle Common, the role of a Property Manager.

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Gloucestershire

HURLSTON-GARDINER, Val

4 Abbey Mill, Mill Street, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire GL20 5SB
Tel: 01684 273023.

• Garden history.
• Paintings through gardens.
• Garden adornments.
• Follies & grottos.
• Thomas Robbins - 18th century artist in the garden.
• Development of Painswick Rococo Garden.

TOMPSETT, Alan J.

Trinley, The Knowle, Tirley, GL19 4HE
Tel: (01452) 780012

• Our beautiful coastline - the National Trust's role in its protection.
• The National Trust & the South East or North East or Central or Wessex.
• Treasures of Southern England - favourite places and buildings.
• Gardens to linger in.
• The Rockies - National Parks of North America.
• Wilderness - a tour of British Columbia & Alaska.
• Wildlife & scenery in the Dales & Moors of Northern England.

COOKE, David

6 Summer Close, Stroud, GL5 1PF
Tel: (01453) 765391

• National Trust Gardens - rooted in history, growing forever.
• National Trust gardens in Gloucestershire.
• Landscape gardens of the National Trust.
• National Trust properties in Devon or Cornwall.
• The story of 'Bess of Hardwick' - Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire.
• Neptune Coastline Campaign & Seabritain 2005.
• National Trust gardens in North Wales.
• National Trust castles in North Wales.
• The Story of Tyntesfield.

Hampshire

HORDER, Mr Richard

Middleham, Wood Lane, Bramdean, Alresford, S024 0JN
Tel: (01962) 771443

• The Neptune Coastline Campaign.
• The Historic Parks and Gardens of The National Trust.
• National Trust Properties in the Southern Region: The Vyne, Mottisfont Abbey, Polesden Lacey, Hinton Ampner, Petworth, Uppark.
• The Georgian Age and its people.
• Chateaux of France.
• The History of Northumbria.
• The Victorian Age.
• Medieval England.
• Seabritain.

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Somerset

BRAIN, Mrs Christine

Head Gardener, Barrington Court Gardens
Barrington Court, near Ilminster TA19 0NQ

• Barrington Court Garden.

BURR, Mr Tom MBE

Former Associations’ Liaison Secretary for the National Trust
Woodville House, Woodcock Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7BJ
Tel: (01963) 351122

• Stourhead - The Creation of the Landscape.
• Bequest to the National Trust - The Kingston Lacy and Corfe Castle Estates.
• The National Trust - into its second Century.
• The Neptune Coastline Campaign & Seabritain 2005.
• The Golden Cap Estate - The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw.
• Men in the National Trust.
• Montacute House - The Rise and Fall of the Phelips. Family. The Marquess Curzon and the National Trust.
• Reflections - a witty personal account of Tom's 38 years work for the National Trust - gifted amateur to professional.
• Tyntesfield - the family - a fortune made from guano.

CLARK, Miss Margaret

Copperfield, Lower Street, Rode, Frome BA11 6PU
Tel: (01373) 830894

• The Work of the National Trust
• You Can Get There From Here - Places Within Reach of You.
• Where Are We in The National Trust? –A Quiz with Slides.
• National Trust Gardens.
• Neptune Coastline Campaign.
• National Trust Gardens in The South West of England.
• Behind the scenes.
• Flights of Fancy - A Look at Staircases.
• Gardens of Cornwall.
• Nor any drop to drink – A Talk on a Watery Theme.
• The National Trust from A-Z
• “Caves to Castles” - Houses of the National Trust.

LEE, Mr Jim

Education Volunteers’ Co-ordinator Dunster Castle
15 Ashgrove, Minehead, TA24 8TZ

• Neptune Coastline Campaign.
• Dunster Castle.

PERRIAM, Ms Martha

3 Glebe House, 80 Upper Church Road, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, BS23 2AE

Tel.(01934) 622255. Email: m.perriam@tiscali.co.uk.

• Brean Down, Somerset - its Victorian and Second World War fortifications.

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Wiltshire

GRASBY, James

Wessex Regional Office, Eastleigh Court, Bishopstrow, Warminster, BA12 9HW
Tel (01985) 843600

• The Bankes family and Kingston Lacy.

JOHNSTONE, Mrs Karen MBE

2 Burymead, Codford St Peter, Warminster, BA12 0NU
Tel: (01985) 850258

• Gardens of the Trust – Stowe, Bodnant, Waddesdon and Knightshayes.
• Waddesdon Manor – a French Fancy .
• The History of Gardens.
• Wiltshire's Secret Garden -The Courts.
• A touch of colour - Trust gardens through the seasons.
• A gothic celebration - Tyntesfield.
• Seabritain.

PAPWORTH, Mr Martin

Regional Archaeologist for Wessex
Wessex Regional Office, Bishopstrow , Warminster BA12 9HW
Tel: (01985) 843600

• The National Trust and Archaeology in Wessex.
• Reading the ruins of Corfe Castle.
• The Discovery and Research Into the Romano-British Small Town at Shapwick, Kingston Lacy.
• Excavations at Corfe Castle.
• Lodge Farm, The Medieval Hunting Lodge of Kingston Lacy.
• The Treasurer’s House, Martock – the archaeology of the 13th century manor house of the Treasurer of Wells Cathedral.
• The Priest’s House, Mulchelney.
• Archaeology of the Golden Cap Estate.
• The History and Archaeology of Kingston Lacy Estate.
• Iron Age hill-forts in Dorset.

PENNY, Mr C.

Ambleside, 25 Mill Close, Wroughton, Swindon, SN4 9AR

• National Trust management at Avebury.
• Pre-history
• Antiquarians.
• Archaeologist - Keiller.
• Recent archaeology.

PLANTE CLEALL, Mrs J.

Retired member of the Regional Committee for Wessex, retired Head of Pewsey Vale School
Cross Keys House, All Cannings, Devizes, SN103NY
Written requests initially
Tel: (01380) 860283 - answer machine.

• The National Trust and the Female Connection
• Wessex Women - the Impact that women have had as Donors, Protectors and Gardeners.
• Neptune Coastline Campaign.
• Eating Through the Ages – From the Mediaeval Hall to tea-rooms!
• National Trust Gardens in Wessex.
• Wessex National Trust Properties, Including Houses, Gardens and Open Spaces.
• The Grand Tour and the National Trust.