Car Parking Before 2.30pm, please park in the Car Park off Shuart Lane, at the West End of the Church, being careful not to block the Riding Stables entrance opposite. After 2.30 the School Car Park will be available (they have a fête earlier).
Assemble in St Nicholas Church.
3.05 Dr Thomas Jones (1870-1955)
Talk by his grandson Ben Jones MITI, MTA.
| Dr Thomas Jones C.H., joined the Cabinet Secretariat on its formation in 1916 and remained as Deputy Secretary until 1930, under 4 Prime Ministers, Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald, during the period of the Irish Settlement and the General Strike. He wrote prolific diaries which shed much light on what happens behind the scenes in Whitehall. He came from the Welsh mining village of Rhymney and also devoted much energy to Adult Education, founding Coleg Harlech. In 1924 he built Street Acre in Shuart Lane, St Nicholas-at-Wade, which has continued to be the family home. |
4.00 Short Break
4.15 "The Bridges Family before, during and after their residence at St Nicholas-at-Wade". Talk by Lord Bridges GCMG, of Headley and St Nicholas-at-Wade, grandson of Robert Bridges.
| The Bridges Family was very influential in St Nicholas-at-Wade for over 200 years. Robert Bridges was born in 1844 and educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After travelling extensively, he studied medicine in London and practised until 1882. He was Poet Laureate for 17 years from 1913-30. His only son Edward, 1st Baron Bridges of Headley, county Surrey and St Nicholas-at-Wade, county Kent, KG, PC, GCB, GCVO, MC was Secretary to the Cabinet 1938-46 covering World War II and the Nuremberg Criminal War Trials. |
5.10 Depart to St Nicholas Court for Strawberry Tea, with the opportunity to see the Underground Chapel and a tour of an ancient garden.