Did you ever wonder what it is like to run a small museum? I am starting a weekly blog: a mixture of notices and news, hopes, anxieties and declarations. I should say that I don’t lead all the walks, and I certainly don’t do any of the painting and not much gardening. Review what I have written, I see it is quite laconic, but a first try, and I will warm to my subject…
This week our new Brunel books roll off the Graphicom press in Italy! I write this with some delight and relief, because the process of write and rewrite, revise and proof and check, has been going on for quite some time. My co-author Eric Kentley has been very patient, which is good, for it can be exhausting and stressful!. We are updating and reprinting the very successful The Brunels’ Tunnel, introduction by the amiable Michael Palin, and are producing a new volume Brunel’s Great Eastern , introduction by the wonderful Joanna Lumley. I am nervous and excited to see these books safely despatched from Italy and on the shelves in London! This is also, by happy coincidence, the week the Italians celebrate here in the Grand Entrance Hall of The Brunel Museum, fundraising for FAI Italian Heritage Trust. Traditional dance and food in a Pizzica concert in the underground chamber…
Sunday 9th Oct
10.45 riverside walk from Bermondsey tube, offered in partnership with London Walks
Monday 10th Oct
10.45 riverside walk from Bermondsey tube, offered in partnership with London Walks
Really beautiful prints by Antonietta Torsiello, mostly about Brunel projects, now in Brunel Museum Cafe Gallery. Private View this evening.
Tuesday 11th Oct
10.45 heritage boat trip from Embankment tube offered in partnership with London Walks
Visiting U3A group
Wednesday 12th Oct
10.45 heritage boat trip from Embankment tube offered in partnership with London Walks
Gardening Club, a wonderful group, meet to look after the museum gardens. Meeting with contractors about name plates for the new staircase
18.15 riverside walk from Bermondsey tube, offered in partnership with London Walks
Thursday 13th Oct
10.45 heritage boat trip from Embankment tube offered in partnership with London Walks
Visiting U3A group
Friday 14th Oct
10.45 heritage boat trip from Embankment tube offered in partnership with London Walks
Cadmore End Primary school meet Brunel in Person. I don’t have the time to do all the school visits, but today I get a chance to put on IKB’s big top hat.
Saturday 15th Oct
10.45 heritage boat trip from Embankment tube offered in partnership with London Walks. Now this is the walk I do lead!
13.30 lunch with the Director (me) at the Tunnel Club, Mayflower pub upper room. How I enjoy this event…
19.00 Italian Pizzica Concert with Amaraterra, a really excellent band. Traditional dances and music from Calabria, the heel of Italy – and food and drink too. This is a Benefit Concert for Italian Heritage Trust, and I shall have a dance and perhaps the odd leap!
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