A Dinner for the Day of the Dead
Date: 1st November 2002 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Bruce Kraig
Buckland Club’s Golden Jubilee Luncheon
Date: Sunday 23rd June 2002 Venue: Christ Church, Oxford Buckland Club Members & Guests Gather in the Archdeacon’s Lodging In 2002, the Buckland Club reached its fiftieth birthday and celebrated in the most appropriate style. For fifty years, the Club has been entertaining and instructing its members, and dutifully following its motto “Semper in ventrem aliquid novi”. We…
A Georgian Supra
Date: Wednesday 6th February 2002 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Anthony Eastmond Invitation to members for the Georgian Dinner -oOo-
The Parsee Dinner
Date: 7th November 2001 Venue: Forest Hall, Meriden Sponsor: Rusi Dalal Invitation to the Parsee Dinner from Secretary Roger Wood. BUCKLAND CLUB MINUTES A PARSEE DINNER The Parsees, as a race, are great travellers. Their story began in Persia around 700 AD. From there they travelled to the most distant corners of the earth. At the…
A Summer Party on the Loire
Date: 31st July 2001 Venue: Cave de Pierre-Jacques Druet, Bourgueil Geoffrey Luff (LHS), Roger Brown (Centre) & Ménard (RHS) Ménard the charcutier from Bourgueil
A Robert Burns Dinner
Date: 25th January 2001* Venue: Staff House, The University of Birmingham Sponsors: Michael Brewer with Andrew Morris Assisted by: Alastair Kerr, Hamish Aird, Craig Smith, Bryer and Tessa Sidey Minutes of A Robert Burns Dinner The Buckland Club decided to celebrate Burns Night at The Staff House Birmingham University on 25th January 2001*. So far as I…
A Moroccan Dinner
Date: Wednesday 1st November 2000 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Anissa Helou Minutes of the Moroccan Dinner On the 1st November 2000 the Buckland Club decided to risk a Moroccan dinner. Now travellers in that country have in the past returned in a condition near to death and requiring first a stomach pump and then…
A David Cox Dinner
Date: Tuesday 14th March 2000 Venue: The Council House, Birmingham Sponsor: David Hardy Invitation to members for A David Cox Dinner. Roger Wood Secretary
A Futurist Dinner
Date: Wednesday 3rd November 1999 Venue: The Vauxhall Centre, University of Aston, Birmingham Sponsor: Andrew P. Morris Background to the dinner The Futurist Dinner was my first appearance acting as sponsor at a Buckland Club event. Having been asked to join the committee, I arrived at my first meeting bright eyed and bushy tailed on…
A Ceremonial Feast of Gazpachios
Date: 13th June 1999 Venue: Woodmen of Arden Archery Club, Meriden Sponsor: Alicia Rios Minutes of a Ceremonial Feast of Gazpachios