Events
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| There are no planned events at the present |
Newsletters
Newsletter 1: Project status, fund-
Newsletter 2: The status of our conservation project,our last symposium, other local grottos and the ‘Nine Ladies of Crux Easton’.
Newsletter 3: Our recent Heritage Lottery grant, laser-
Newsletter 4: Completion of the conservation and lighting of the South Chamber and an article on “Pope’s mortal blow”.
Newsletter 5: Changes to the conservation plan, recent fund-raising events and open days, our plans for the 300th anniversary of Pope’s arrival in Twickenham, a tragic event in Stanton Harcourt and an abbreviated transcript of a talk by Dr Emrys Jones “an ornament from an inconvenience”. (the full text of Dr Emrys Jones talk “An Ornament from an Inconvenience” can be found here)
Newsletter 6: Restarting the conservation and open days, the “Twickenham Luminaries” lecture series and memories of St Catherines’ old girls.
Newsletter 7: Project news, volunteering, open days, memories of the grotto.
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In the news
This is an article about the restoration project in the Daily Telegraph (15th September 2015) by Victoria Lambert: “Inside Alexander Pope’s hidden grotto”.
Read this article from the Observer (8th May 2016) about our project: “Hope springs eternal: project to save Alexander Pope’s secret grotto”.
Here’s an excellent article in the London Review of Books blog by Mary Wellesley (4th August 2016): “In Pope’s Grotto”
Hyperallegenic, an online magazine based in New York, has a good article about us here: “Restoring Alexander Pope’s Glinting Grotto to Its Former Glory”.
A couple of articles about our project have been published in 2 local magazines, not available on the web: The Friends of Tabley House (Cheshire) Newsletter February 2016, and An Baner Kernewek (The Cornish Banner), August 2016. The latter is a long-
Historical novelist, Lucy Roeber, has written and excellent article on the grotto in her blog: “The Season of Grottos”. Well worth reading.
After a visit to the Grotto in August 2018, Frank Skinner talked at length about his visit and Pope on his Saturday morning radio show on Absolute Radio. Listen to a clip here:
The London Topographical Society has published an article on the grotto in their Newsletter Number 88.
Matthew Lloyd Roberts published an excellent article about our digital reconstruction project in The Critic (22nd January 2022): “What’s gone is here again”.
Project Completion Press Release
This file is the complete press release issued at the end of the conservation project in April 2023.