2021
Martin Jennings sculpture exhibition at Arundells from 30 April to 19 July 2022 Artist Martin Jennings is perhaps best known for his statue of Sir John Betjeman at St Pancras Station and he has twice won the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture. Entitled...
2021
The sad death of our Chairman, Lance was made all the more difficult by the speed with which his cancer spread and the short space of time between diagnosis and his passing at home in October. Those of us who saw him at Bevis Hillier’s much delayed Birthday...
2021
Novelist and playwright Jonathan Smith wins the Betjeman Society Award for 2021 for his “intensely personal” book Being Betjeman(n) and “lifelong obsession The Betjeman Society has presented the novelist, playwright and educationalist Jonathan Smith...
2021
Take the 12 mile challenge – Sunday 12th September St John’s Church in Waberthwaite, Cumbria are setting local people, and visitors, a Betjeman Challenge! In John Betjeman’s Guide to English Churches, apparently St John’s was described as...
2021
A wonderful tea party was held by the Society on 28 August at Searcy’s, St Pancras Station to celebrate Bevis Hillier’s belated 80/81st birthday. Our Past President, Bevis Hillier, turned 81 in March and stepped down as President the previous March. Having...
2021
To celebrate John Betjeman’s birthday on Saturday 28 August, the Society held it annual poetry reading at his statue on St Pancras station. A large number of members gathered at 4pm and enjoyed the poetry reading, good fellowship and wishing JB a happy...
