Date: Thursday 2nd April 2009 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsors: Hazel Riggall & Ruth Cowen Alexis Soyer Dinner – Notes for the Evening Made by Sponsor Hazel Riggall Introduction to the evening. This has been an opportunity to bring to fruition a dinner to celebrate his life which started as a serious plan…
Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Date: Wednesday 12th November 2008 Sponsor: Prof. Kate McLuskie Below is the flyer sent to members with information about the meal. Menu Card Menu card by Roger Hale Minutes of the Shakespeare Dinner This dinner was sponsored by Professor Kate McLuskie, Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-on-Avon,…
Date: Wednesday 7th May 2008 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsors: Ursula Heinzelmännchen & Stuart Pigott Placemat by Roger Hale Menu Card designed and printed by Roger Hale
Venue: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts & The Staff House, University of Birmingham Date: Friday 26th October 2007 Sponsors: Eurydice & Dimiter Angelov Invitation to the Dinner Minutes of A Nicene Imperial Feast Nicaea is perhaps best known to us, if it is known to us at all, as the venue for the Council meeting…
Date: Thursday 26th April 2007 Venue: Birmingham College of Food, Tourism & Creative Studies Sponsor: Andrew Morris Guest Speaker: Margaret Walker The Background to the Dinner by Andrew Morris As a parent and teacher of primary school aged children I was fully aware of Roald Dahl’s connection with food. Not only was there the book,…
Date: 11th October 2006 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Dr. John Amis
Date: 21st April 2006 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Minutes of an Agatha Christie Dinner by Roger Hale The dinner was sponsored by Doctor Guy Houghton. Those of us with memories steeped in the history of the Club recalled that the Houghton family are well known as serial poisoners of the Buckland Club. There had been…
Date: Friday 21st October 2005 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsors: William Wood, Harlan Walker & Roger Hale Invitation to Members Minutes of the Buckland Club Trafalgar Dinner This dinner marked the two-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, a defining moment in the post-revolutionary skirmishes between this country and France, which pitted against each other…
Date: Thursday 7th April 2005 Venue: Forest Hall, Meriden Sponsors: Geoffrey & Joy Luff with Roger Hale Minutes of the Dinner In the past The Buckland Club has travelled to the Loire and enjoyed a huge and extraordinary lunch, but on the 7th April 2005 we arranged for the Loire to come to us.The Loire flowed…
Date: Wednesday 27th October 2004 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor Edward Ratnaraja Minutes of A Tamil Dinner. The Club met at The Staff House, Birmingham…