A Goethe Dinner
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
A Nicene Imperial Feast
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…
Roald Dahl Dinner
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,…
A Mozart Dinner
Date: 11th October 2006 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Dr. John Amis
An Agatha Christie Dinner
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…
A Trafalgar Dinner
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…
Great British Summer Party
Date: 5th June 2005 Venue: The Priory School, Edgbaston, Birmingham Sponsors: Paul Leverton & Andrew Morris Minutes – Great British Summer Party Writing up an occasion more than two decades after the event has obvious flaws. However, viewing the Club’s Great British Summer Party at some distance has certain advantages. My memory of…
Un Dîner Tourangeau aka A Loire Wine Dinner
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…
A Tamil Dinner
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…
Bloom’s Day – A Summer Soirée
Date: Wednesday 16th June 2004 Venue: Gas Street Basin/ St Paul’s Club, Birmingham Sponsor: Sir Bob Dowling