Programme

 

PROGRAMME 2026

Friday 23rd January 2026 2.00pm for 2.30pm  AGM & talk on Stonehenge – Simon Banton. The Methodist Hall, Freshwater PO40 9ER

Memorial Lunch Tuesday 3rd March 2026 Talk 11.30am start, Lunch 12.45pm – Sir Christopher Wren – Dr Martin Grossel Royal Solent Yacht Club bookings only

Friday 22nd May 2026 6.00 for 6.30pm History of All Saints’ Church - Jill Reynolds. Meeting will be held in All Saints’ Church Freshwater

May 2026 - Robert Hooke Trail guided walk I of W Walking Festival - bookings only 2.00pm All Saints’ Churchyard, adjacent to Red Lion, Freshwater

Birthday Celebration Friday 17th July 2026 7.00 for 7.30pm start - History of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, with focus on its formation, which would cover some of the relationship between John Flamsteed and Robert Hooke - Mike Meynell The Methodist Hall, Freshwater PO40 9ER

Hooke Festival 13th - 18th July 2026 - Separate Programme

Friday 18th September 2026 7.00 for 7.30pm start - Creating the Tick for Time Measurement in Early Time Pieces (Clocks) - Mark Handel Methodist Hall, Freshwater PO40 9ER

October 2026 Robert Hooke Trail guided walk I of W Walking Festival - bookings only 2.00pm All Saints’ Churchyard, adjacent to Red Lion, Freshwater

Friday 27th November 2026 2.00 for 2.30pm Robert Hooke's contribution to Experimental Science and the Scientific Method - Prof Alan Bassindale The Methodist Hall, Freshwater PO40 9ER

Friday 22 January 2027 2.00 for 2.30pm start AGM & talk on John Aubrey -The Antiquarian and his friendship with Robert Hooke – Alan Phillips The Methodist Hall, Freshwater PO40 9ER

PROGRAMME 2024

Friday 26^th 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 17^th May 2024  guided walk Robert Hooke trail - Bookings Isle of Wight Walking Festival

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

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

Friday 27^th 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 11^th October 2024  guided walk Robert Hooke trail Bookings Isle of Wight Walking Festival

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

December Brighstone Christmas Tree Festival          

 

PROGRAMME 2023

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

Friday 3^rd 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 19 May 2023 7.00  for 7.30pm Wesley Hall Freshwater - Robin McInnes 250 Years of IofW Landscape Art 1670-1920 ^th

Tuesday 18 July Birthday Celebration - Alex Peaker Compton Bay^thFossil Walk

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

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 Experiments^th

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

Thursday15^thJuly2021

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

 

Thursday 7 May & Thursday 14 May at 11.00 am

Isle of Wight Walking Festival

Robert Hooke Trail guided walk

All Saints’ Church, Freshwater

 

Friday 5 June  

Robert Hooke’s Birthday Celebration

‘Floods, Fossils, and Freshwater Bay; The Origins

of Robert Hooke’s Geological Thinking’.

Wesley Hall, Freshwater

 

Saturday 18 July 2.00 pm

Fossil Talk & Walk - Colwell Bay

 

Friday 18 September 7.00pm for 7.30 pm

 

   "Robert Hooke and Christ Church - Oxford under the Protectorate"

 Wesley Hall, Freshwater

 

Friday 20 November 7.00pm for 7.30pm

        “Small currency Tokens of the Isle of Wight including that of John Hooke of Newport:  

What light insights do they give on Robert Hooke and his Life and Times?”

Wesley Hall, Freshwater

 

10-13 December

Brighstone Christmas Tree Festival

Robert Hooke Society Christmas Tree

 

Meetings are usually held in The Wesley Hall at Freshwater Methodist Church, Brookside Road, Freshwater PO40 9ER.  Isle of Wight UK