Welcome to the Robert Hooke Society, Freshwater
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 - talk to be arranged -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 - 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, The 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 22nd September 7.00 for 7.30pm - Wesley Hall Freshwater Arnold Taylor Robert Boyle & the Large Hadron Collider of the 17th Century
Friday 13th October - Hooke Trail Walk See Isle of Wight Walking Festival website for Hooke Trail Bookings
Friday 17th November - 2.00 for 2.30pm Wesley Hall Freshwater - Peter Ransom - Sun Dials
Friday 26th January 2024 7.00 for 7.30pm Wesley Hall Freshwater AGM & Talk Huxley Hunt The Magic of Robert Hooke's Experiments
PROGRAMME 2022
Friday 21 January 7.00pm for 7.15 pm 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, Freshwater
Thursday 3 March at 10.30am for 11.00am Memorial Lunch Royal Solent Yacht Club King Charles I/II Kevin Shaw, (Bookings Only)
Friday 13 May at 2.00 pm Isle of Wight Walking Festival Robert Hooke Trail guided walk Meet at All Saints Church, Freshwater
Friday 27 May 7.00pm for 7.30 pm start The Age of Enlightenment John Medland Wesley Hall, Freshwater
Tuesday 6th September 12.30 pm Fossil Stroll, Colwell Bay Dr Martin Munt (Bookings only)
Friday 23rd September Meeting 7.00pm for 7.30 pm - Talk on Alchemy, Wesley Hall, Freshwater
Friday, 14 October Guided Walk 2.00 pm Isle 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 From the cell theory of Robert Hooke to the neuron doctrine of Santiago Ramón y Cajal Dr Tomás Camacho (Spain) via Zoom & relayed in the Wesley Hall, Freshwater
December Robert Hooke Society Tree at Brighstone Christmas Tree Festival
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
Thursday 15th July 2021
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, Fort Victoria
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