Programme

 

 

PROGRAMME 2025
Friday 24th January 2025  7.00 for 7.30pm start AGM – ‘Palaeontology’ Megan Jacob The Methodist Hall, Freshwater PO40 9ER
 
Memorial Lunch Bookings Only Tuesday 4 March 2025 at 10.30am for 11.00am Jonas Moore and Robert Hooke - An Important 17th Century Collaboration  Dr Martin Grossel Royal Solent Yacht Club
 
Friday 16th May 2025 2.00 pm start Bookings Only IofW Walking Festival - Robert Hooke Trail - guided walk All Saints’ Church, adjacent to Red Lion, Freshwater
 
Friday 16th May 2025  7.00 pm for 7.30 pm start Talk to be arranged The Methodist Hall, Freshwater PO40 9ER
 
Birthday Celebration  Friday, 18th July 2025 7.00 for 7.30pm start - Robert Hooke - A Pictorial Journey  Speaker Paul Bradley
 
Friday 26th September 2025 7.00 for 7.30pm start The Evolution of the Astronomical Telescope -   Richard Flux The Methodist Hall, Freshwater PO40 9ER
 
10th  October 2025 2.00 pm start Bookings Only I of W Walking Festival - Robert Hooke Trail - guided walk All Saints’ Church, adjacent to Red Lion, Freshwater
 
Friday 21st November 2025  7.00 pm for 7.30pm start Hooke & Four Leading Microscopists Dr Paul Bingham  Methodist Hall, Freshwater PO40 9ER 
 
December Christmas Tree Festival
 
Friday 23rd January 2026 7.00 pm for 7.30pm start AGM and talk   
 

PROGRAMME 2024

Friday 26th January 2024  7.00 for 7.30pm start AGM &‘The Magic of Robert Hooke’ - Huxley Hunt The Methodist Hall, Freshwater Isle of Wight PO40 9ER 

Memorial Lunch Monday 4 March 2024 at 10.30am for 11.00am  Bookings Only - Fire of London - Peter Russell

Friday 17th May 2024  guided walk Robert Hooke trail - Bookings Isle of Wight Walking Festival

Friday 17th May 2024   7.00 pm for 7.30 pm start - The Simpsons  & Mathematical References - Steve Archer -The Methodist Hall Freshwater PO40 9ER

Thursday 18th July 2024 2.00 for 2.30pm start  Robert Hooke’s Birthday Celebration - Hooke & Thomas Tompion Father of Clock-making  - Dr Martin Grossel                                   

Friday 27th September 2024 7.00 for 7.30pm start William Harvey (1578-1657) theory of the circulation of blood and his part in the Scientific Revolution - Dr Paul Bingham The Methodist Hall, Freshwater Isle of Wight  PO40 9ER

Friday 11th October 2024  guided walk Robert Hooke trail Bookings Isle of Wight Walking Festival

Friday 15th November 2024 2.00 pm for 2.30pm start - Peter Ransom - Sir Isaac Newton: (Boo hero trek revisited)- title to be explainedThe Methodist Hall, Freshwater PO40 9ER        

December Brighstone Christmas Tree Festival          

 

PROGRAMME 2023

Friday 27th January short AGM Peter Russell - talk on the Plague in 1665

Friday 3rd March 2023 Memorial Lunch Dr Martin Grossel Talk on Capt William Petty  Bookings only

Friday 19th May, Hooke Trail Walk  See Isle of Wight Walking Festival website for bookings

Friday 19th May 2023 7.00  for 7.30pm Wesley Hall Freshwater - Robin McInnes 250 Years of IofW Landscape Art 1670-1920 

Tuesday 18th July Birthday Celebration - Alex Peaker Fossil Walk Compton Bay

Friday 22 September 7.00 for 7.30pm - Wesley Hall Freshwater Arnold Taylor ndRobert Boyle & the Large Hadron Collider of the 17 Centuryth

Friday 13th October  - Hooke Trail Walk See Isle of Wight Walking Festival website for Hooke Trail Bookings

Friday 17 November - 2.00 for 2.30pm Wesley Hall Freshwater - Peter Ransom - thSun Dials

Friday 26 January 2024  7.00 for 7.30pm Wesley Hall Freshwater AGM & Talk Huxley Hunt The Magic of Robert Hooke's Experimentsth

PROGRAMME 2022


AGM – The World Turned Upside Down the experience of the Civil Wars Stuart Orme, Curator of the Cromwell Museum Zoom & relayed in the           Wesley Hall, FreshwaterFriday 21 January 7.00pm for 7.15 pm


Memorial Lunch Royal Solent Yacht Club King Charles I/II Kevin Shaw, (Bookings Only)Thursday 3 March at 10.30am for 11.00am


Isle of Wight Walking Festival Robert Hooke Trail guided walk Meet at All Saints Church, FreshwaterFriday 13 May at 2.00 pm


The Age of Enlightenment John Medland                   Wesley Hall, FreshwaterFriday 27 May 7.00pm for 7.30 pm start


Stroll, Colwell Bay Dr Martin Munt (Bookings only)Tuesday 6th September  12.30 pm  Fossil 


- Talk on Alchemy, Wesley Hall, FreshwaterFriday 23rd September Meeting 7.00pm for 7.30 pm

2.00 pm IFriday, 14 October Guided Walksle of Wight Walking Festival Robert Hooke Trail guided walk Meet at All Saints Church, Freshwater (Bookings only)

 Friday 18 November 7.00pm for 7.30pm  Robert Hooke & Astronomy - Dr Paul Bingham    Wesley Hall, Freshwater


Robert Hooke Society Tree at Brighstone Christmas Tree FestivalDecember


Further details can be obtained through our Contact Page Meetings are usually held in The Wesley Hall at Freshwater Methodist Church, Brookside Road, Freshwater PO40 9ER.                 Isle of Wight UK

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PROGRAMME 2021

Thursday15thJuly2021

11:00am to 4:00pm

at The Corner Room, FORT VICTORIA

Westhill Lane, Norton, Yarmouth PO41 0RR

Free Parking

Refreshments and light lunches available at

Café Verdi, FortVictoria

Free Entry

All Welcome

 

Programme 2020

The Robert Hooke Society, Freshwater, Isle of Wight

Friday 24 January 7.00pm for 7.30 pm

AGM – “Robert Hooke Curator of Experiments”

Committee Members

Wesley Hall, Freshwater

 

Tuesday 3 March at 10.30am for 11.00am

Booking required

“Hooke’s Tour of Milton Keynes”

 Memorial Lunch Royal Solent Yacht Club