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Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Neasden Temple and Kenwood House

IMPORTANT: CHANGE OF DATE TO WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER

Booking opens at the September lecture. 

Contact Claudie either at the lecture or at tasmvisits@gmail.com to book or for more information.

Cost: £35 pp

For details of payment press here.

Morning

'Neasden Temple’ the popular name for the Mandir, which is a traditional place of Hindu worship designed and constructed entirely according to ancient Vedic architectural texts – using no structural steel whatsoever. It is a masterpiece of Indian design.

A guided tour of the temple is planned, where we'll see intricate marble and wooden carvings. We then experience a traditional Hindu prayer ceremony.

Lunch You can enjoy some lunch or light refreshments (at your own expense) in the Brew House Café at Kenwood House, before or after your visit of the house, or bring a packed lunch.

Afternoon

Kenwood House in Hampstead

We visit the house (free flow) with its wonderful art collection, many historical and old masters paintings, including Rembrandt, Vermeer and Gainsborough.

   


Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Fishbourne Roman Palace and Gardens and on to Chichester

Booking opens at the February lecture. 

Contact Claudie either at the lecture or at tasmvisits@gmail.com to book or for more information.

Cost: £39 

For details of payment press here.

Morning

Fishbourne Roman Palace and Garden (not a guided tour to reduce costs).

The largest Roman home in Britain, with the largest collection of mosaics in situ in the UK. The gardens, which have been recreated, were the earliest gardens found anywhere in the country. 

On to Chichester - free time for lunch (at own expense).

Afternoon

Visit to the Novium Museum.

Built over the remains of a Roman bath house and with three floors of fantastic exhibitions, you can step back in time. The Novium Museum is Chichester District's award-winning museum located in the heart of the city centre, telling the fascinating story of its rich Roman heritage, with many archaeological remains, objects and artefacts on display.


Wednesday, 30 October 2024
SOUTHAMPTON - The City Art Gallery and Tudor House and Garden

Booking opens in August.

UNFORTUNATELY THIS VISIT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED owing to insufficient numbers.

Please contact Claudie at tasmvisits@gmail.com

Cost £30pp

Morning –  TUDOR HOUSE AND GARDEN– self-guided, with audio guides. Discover over 800 years of history, through the stories of the people who lived here.

Afternoon– THE CITY ART GALLERY – Self-guided visit of the wide-ranging exhibitions of paintings, sculpture, photography & film.


Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Extended Visit - Loire River Cruise

16-21 October 2024

This Extended Visit  will be a cruise on the River Loire on the MS Loire Princess and will include excursions to many places of interest as well as relaxation on board.

For full details, please see the brochure here

Contact Claudie at tasmvisits@gmail.com to book or for further information.

Bookings for twin/double cabins can still be taken, deposit to be paid by 9th June, and after that date it will be on request. However, for single cabins, this will be on a waiting list.

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19 November 2025Neasden Temple and Kenwood House
01 June 2025Extended Visit - Wonderful Wiltshire 1 - 5 June, 2025
30 April 2025Fishbourne Roman Palace and Gardens and on to Chichester
30 October 2024SOUTHAMPTON - The City Art Gallery and Tudor House and Garden
16 October 2024Extended Visit - Loire River Cruise
25 June 2024The Museum of English Rural Life and Reading Museum
22 May 2024Public Art in the City Walk with Alexandra Epps
26 March 2024The Whitchurch Silk Mill and the Bombay Sapphire Gin Distillery
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03 October 2023Highcliffe Castle in the morning followed by Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum in the afternoon.
02 July 2023Extended Visit - Cardiff's Art and Castles
19 June 2023Brookwood Cemetery
23 May 2023Rochester (in the footsteps of Charles Dickens)
06 March 2023Chartwell (Home of Winston Churchill for over 40 years)
24 November 2022The Postal Museum
19 October 2022Bletchley Park
19 September 2022Extended Visit to Lisbon
07 June 2022Re-scheduled Extended Visit - Bavaria including a Performance at Oberammergau
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17 July 2019Hever Castle, Edenbridge, Kent.
23 June 2019Extended Visit - Historic Houses and Heritage of Suffolk
05 June 2019Wilton House & Gardens, Wiltshire
02 May 2019The Red House (NT), Bexleyheath and Horniman Museum & Gardens, Forest Hill
05 September 2018Christ Church College and The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
20 June 2018Parham House and Gardens, Pulborough, West Sussex
01 May 2018Claydon House and Gardens, Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire
17 April 2018Extended Visit - The Art & History of Nice and the Côte d'Azur
25 October 2017Chichester Cathedral and Pallant House
28 September 2017Beaulieu
04 July 2017Leeds Castle
19 June 2017Extended Visit to Scotland
22 May 2017Snowshill Manor and Gardens, Gloucestershire.
04 October 2016Salisbury including Arundells House
05 September 2016Leighton House & 18 Stafford Terrace
20 July 2016William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow
23 May 2016Extended Visit 2016 - Holland, the Rijksmuseum and the Dutch Masters
12 April 2016Stratfield Saye
07 October 2015Blenheim Palace
09 September 2015Great Dixter House and Gardens
08 July 2015Kingston Lacy
01 June 2015Extended Visit 2015 - Art and Architecture of the Three Choirs: Worcester, Hereford and Gloucester
12 May 2015Penshurst Place
17 October 2014Two London Gems – Dulwich Picture Gallery and Horniman Museum and Gardens
05 September 2014Broughton Castle (N Oxfordshire)
18 June 2014Stonor Park and Gardens (Oxfordshire)
19 May 2014Extended Visit 2014 - The Treasures of Dresden and Meissen
25 April 2014Waddesdon Manor (near Aylesbury, Bucks.)
30 October 2013Apsley House and the Wellington Arch
09 September 2013Goodwood House
27 June 2013Arundel Castle and Bignor Roman Villa
03 June 2013 EXTENDED VISIT 2013 -Art Tour of Yorkshire, based in Harrogate
01 May 2013Hughenden Manor and Greys Court
17 October 2012Foundling Hospital Museum and the Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition at Tate Britain
21 June 2012Lacock Abbey and Fox Talbot Museum
22 May 2012EXTENDED VISIT 2012 - Krakow’s Art and History
02 May 2012Hatfield House and St Albans
03 April 2012Winchester College and St Cross Hospital
24 October 2011The Drapers’ Company and the Skinners’ Company
07 July 2011Frampton Court Estate and Manor
22 June 2011Eltham Palace
22 May 2011EXTENDED VISIT 2011 - Liverpool and Manchester
03 May 2011Romsey Abbey, Breamore House and Countryside Museum
06 April 2011Bletchley Park
09 November 2010Longleat House - VIP Winter Tour
15 September 2010Sussex Coastal Curios
15 June 2010A day at ‘Art in Action’, Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire
30 May 2010EXTENDED VISIT 2010 - Art and Palaces of Vienna
20 May 2010River Trip from Westminster to Greenwich Pier, Royal Observatory and the Wernher Collection at Ranger’s House
28 April 2010The Merchant’s House, Marlborough, and Lydiard Park

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Neasden Temple and Kenwood House
Wednesday 19 November 2025

IMPORTANT: CHANGE OF DATE TO WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER

Booking opens at the September lecture. 

Contact Claudie either at the lecture or at tasmvisits@gmail.com to book or for more information.

Cost: £35 pp

For details of payment press here.

Morning

'Neasden Temple’ the popular name for the Mandir, which is a traditional place of Hindu worship designed and constructed entirely according to ancient Vedic architectural texts – using no structural steel whatsoever. It is a masterpiece of Indian design.

A guided tour of the temple is planned, where we'll see intricate marble and wooden carvings. We then experience a traditional Hindu prayer ceremony.

Lunch You can enjoy some lunch or light refreshments (at your own expense) in the Brew House Café at Kenwood House, before or after your visit of the house, or bring a packed lunch.

Afternoon

Kenwood House in Hampstead

We visit the house (free flow) with its wonderful art collection, many historical and old masters paintings, including Rembrandt, Vermeer and Gainsborough.