{"id":751,"date":"2025-10-20T15:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/?p=751"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:41:09","slug":"meeting-dates-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/20\/meeting-dates-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting dates 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Meetings are held at\u00a0The Barn,\u00a0Goosecroft,\u00a0Purley on Thames\u00a0RG8 8DR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Friday 9th January, 7:00 pm.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/20\/rain-or-shine-agatha-appleton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rain or Shine Theatre Company &#8211; Agatha Appleton and the Peril of the Pyramids<\/a>.\u00a0 Advance booking required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Friday 16th January, 7:30 pm.\u00a0 &#8220;Signs of the Times: Reading&#8217;s Memorials&#8221; by Malcolm Summers.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 20th February, 7:30 pm.\u00a0 &#8220;Reading&#8217;s Trolleybuses&#8221; by Dave Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 20th March, 7:30 pm.\u00a0 Project Purley&#8217;s AGM followed by &#8220;Windsor Castle 1100 &#8211; 1700&#8221; by Dr David Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 17th April, 7:30 pm.\u00a0 &#8220;Images of Purley: Recent Finds&#8221; by Catherine Sampson.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 15th May, 2:00 pm to c3:00 pm: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/21\/visit-to-holy-trinity-church-reading-15th-may-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit to Holy Trinity Church, Reading<\/a>.\u00a0 Advance booking required.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 5th June, arrive 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm start, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/21\/summer-barbecue-5th-june-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summer BBQ<\/a>.\u00a0 Advance booking required.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 26th June, 7:00 pm <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/12\/rain-or-shine-the-pickwick-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rain or Shine Theatre Company &#8211; The Pickwick Papers<\/a>.\u00a0 Advance booking required.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 17th July, 2:00 pm &#8211; 4:00 pm, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/21\/visit-to-cumberland-lodge-windsor-great-park-17th-july-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit &#8211; Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park<\/a>.\u00a0 Advance booking required.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 18th September, 7:30 pm. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*\u00a0<\/span>Fish and Chips Supper and &#8220;The Bayeux Tapestry&#8221; by Sue Ellis.\u00a0 Advance booking required.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 16th October, 7:30 pm.\u00a0 &#8220;The History of Forbury Gardens, Reading&#8221; by Joy Pibworth.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 29th November, 7:30 pm.\u00a0 &#8220;Three Purley Houses Through Time&#8221; by Suze Stevens-Wood &amp; Catherine Sampson.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 18th December, time TBA.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span> Christmas Party.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meetings are held at\u00a0The Barn,\u00a0Goosecroft,\u00a0Purley on Thames\u00a0RG8 8DR Friday 9th January, 7:00 pm.\u00a0 * Rain or Shine Theatre Company &#8211; Agatha Appleton and the Peril of the Pyramids.\u00a0 Advance booking required. 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Friday 20th February, 7:30 pm.\u00a0 &#8220;Reading&#8217;s Trolleybuses&#8221; by Dave Hall. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/20\/meeting-dates-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meeting dates 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}