A group of 25 intrepid SAS explorers headed north on a Longmynd Travel coach from Shrewsbury on Friday 24th March, to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, for our 3-day Gallery Weekend. The hotel was great, with very comfortable accommodation and excellent service from a dedicated staff. Arriving at 2pm gave us the afternoon to explore, and a lovely sunny day …
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On a sunny Saturday in mid-March, 38 Shropshire Art Society members and their guests arrived bright and early at the Abbey car park to board an executive coach run by the incomparable Longmynd Coaches, for a trip to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Arriving at 10.30 am, just in time for coffee, many made their …
It felt very good to be meeting up in the Abbey Car Park once again on Saturday 30th October, after such a long pandemic-enforced break, to board our Longmynd Travel coach to Liverpool. 38 of us, masked up for the safety of all, travelled together. In our sights were two excellent exhibitions: Walter Sickert: A …
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Over the weekend of the sixth to ninth of March, some thirty of our members enjoyed our annual Gallery Weekend, on this occasion to London. We were safely delivered to the Mercure Bloomsbury Hotel on the Friday lunchtime by our coach, and swiftly set about making the most of our time in the capital. At …
The day trip to the Wirral, to the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum in Birkenhead and the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight was voted another success, a visit to two very different galleries. The Williamson Art Gallery – like many others – is showing the effects of changed financial circumstances, in contrast to …
