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Sketching days - 2025
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Coffee and sketch at the Cosy Club - on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, from 10.00 till 12.30
2025 Sketching days
No booking needed, just turn up with your sketching things - non-members welcome. No charge but some places have an entrance fee or parking charge.
Please let us know if you have any favourite places that you would like us to visit!
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Wed 9th April
Kibworth Antique Centre (6-9pm) Kibworth Antiques Centre 19 Harborough Rd, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicester LE8 0RB Spend the evening sketching at Kibworth Antique Centre - lots of artefacts and interesting objects, and the cafe will be open as well. There is a car park. https://www.kibworthantiquescentre.co.uk/ |
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Sun 11th May The Newarke and the Castle Conservation Area - Castle View, Leicester, LE1 5WH. Historic area of Leicester - including Newarke Houses museum and gardens, St Mary de Castro church, and the Magazine Gateway. Meet at 10.30am in front of Leicester Castle Great Hall. We will start with a short tour of the location by Steven Peachey, Museum Curator at De Montfort University. This lovely historical area of Leicester offers opportunities for sketching indoors and outside the Castle Great Hall, the Trinity Hospital Chapel and herb garden, views from the Castle Motte, St Mary de Castro churchyard, and the Newarke Houses Museum and garden. The area is a unique tranquil spot with interesting buildings, cobbled streets with a ruinous medieval gatehouse called Turret Gateway. Bring a packed lunch – or visit The Castle Pub or Hand & Bowl Deli for refreshments. Street parking available on The Newarke (off Western Boulevard) - see map: The Newarke, Leicester, LE2 7DR and on Castle View, Leicester, LE1 5WH and Castle Yard, Leicester, LE1 5WH. https://www.visitleicester.info/see-and-do/the-newarke-p806861 |
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Friday 20th June Knaptoft, Grange Farm (members only) 10.30 start Gardens, farm buildings, landscape views across fields, and the vegetable patch. Email if you are interested in coming and would like directions. |
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Wed 23rd July - Launde Abbey
Meet at 10.30am 450 acres of parkland, Dairy Tea Room. We have a table reserved for lunch at 12.30 - but please note that picnics are not allowed. Launde Abbey, East Norton, Leicestershire, LE7 9XB https://www.laundeabbey.org.uk/ |
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Sun 10th August - Aylestone Meadows
10.30am at Kings Lock Tearoom (LE2 8LT) Map: Kings Lock Tearoom Nearest car park: Bottom of Marsden Lane LE2 8LR Alternative car park: Canal Street LE2 8LZ Nature reserve, river, Grand Union canal with Kings Lock, and Kings Lock Tearoom. Things to draw include Victorian railway bridge (now a walk), ancient packhorse bridge, Victorian canal bridge, willows, flood meadows, old ridge and furrow clear on field near cafe, lock, lock keepers cottage, pylons, stream joins canal, passing canal boats, horses in field etc. |
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Thurs Sept 18th - Great Central Railway - Loughborough Station
Great Central Road, Loughborough, LE11 1RW (on-street parking on Great Central Road) Meet at 10.30am. Platform tickets - £5. Beautiful steam railway station. Has been used as a film set. No trains running but there will be trains to see and sketch. We are also hoping that the chief engineer will open the engine sheds for us. For more details see the website: https://www.gcrailway.co.uk/ |
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