Harborough Offerings
Did you know there is a new arts frontier Harborough Culture Café? Art, film, literature, music, performance. The cafe provides interesting and entertaining talks about the arts at Louisa’s Place. St Mary’s Road, Market Harborough, LE16 7DU, 6.30 – 9.30pm. The Culture Café started in April 2023 and the profits all go to arts charities.
The programme kicks off this autumn on Wednesday 25 September with a discussion called ‘Who was the Master Detective, the Greatest of all time?’. The second event is on Wednesday 30 October when Carolyn Downing, a multi award winning sound designer for the Life of Pi, 2022 Commonwealth Games amongst others, will talk about her area of expertise in ‘Sound is Half the Picture‘. The final talk is on Wednesday 27 November ‘Looking Ahead to the Art in 2025’. Books, films, exhibitions and theatre.
For more information go to Facebook and enter Harborough Culture Cafe.
Hammond Arboretum
Market Harborough, LE16 7JG. This year under the National Garden Scheme the arboretum will be open on Sunday 6 October, 2 – 4.30pm. Autumn colours are guaranteed.
Francis Hammond was the Headmaster of the Market Harborough County Grammar School when it moved to its current location on Burnmill Road in 1909. In 1911 Francis acquired a piece of land behind the school house garden to create his ‘Dell Park Arboretum’. The first specimens, planted in 1913 were regularly spaced along the east and west boundaries. The next year saw planting along the southern edge. In 1916 Francis acquired more land from his neighbour, and now it is 2.4 acres. Four of the trees at Hammond Arboretum at The Robert Smyth School are recorded as ‘campions’. The largest or tallest of their kind in Britain and Ireland.
Sundials and Armillary Spheres
