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Tea Time Talk - The Composition of a Man

Join Catherine McCusker, Visitor Operations and Experiences Manager for Leith Hill Place (LHP) to learn all about one of LHP’s most famous inhabitants, English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (RVW.) Catherine will focus her talk on the nature of...

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Join Catherine McCusker, Visitor Operations and Experiences Manager for Leith Hill Place (LHP) to learn all about one of LHP’s most famous inhabitants, English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (RVW.)

Catherine will focus her talk on the nature of RVW and particularly, in this year of remembrance, how his patriotism and egalitarian nature meant that he put aside his fame to help the war effort both locally and further afield and used his name to good effect in influencing rescues and treatment of prisoners of war.

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Prices

Event ticket prices

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All £8.00

The basics

Booking details

Call 03442491895

Suitability

Suitable for children 12+

Meeting point

The Terrace room

What to bring and wear

Sensible footwear, Comfortable clothes

Accessibility

Ground floor event.  Ramp into the building. No accessible toilets, but large cubicles.  Limited disabled parking at the front of the house.

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