Programme of Events Next Year

PLEASE NOTE: For some events, booking is essential as stated below.
To book for such events, please contact Maggie by email: tspsevents@outlook.com or mobile: 07478 309044

Unless otherwise specified, events are free to members.
Non-members are welcome to attend an event for a fee, as determined for each event. Please see publicity or contact us for further details.

For a copy of our current, 3-fold publicity leaflet, please click here.

To see some of our past events, please click here.


Tue 10 Feb 2026   11:00am

  Trip Down Memory Lane

The Rose and Crown, Hollybush Hill, Stoke Poges SL2 4PW.
Rose and Crown pub in Hollybush Hill, Stoke PogesStoke Poges has an interesting and varied history and it is great fun discovering it!
We would love to see you at this interactive social gathering. Please bring stories, memories, anecdotes and photographs etc., of Stoke Poges and surrounding villages as we all take a trip down memory lane. Exhibits from the Society's archive will be on display.
We will be having a tea or coffee and several of us will be staying on for lunch for those wishing to stay too. Tea and coffee provided by the Society.

The Rose & Crown pub is a friendly venue, at the heart of our community. A convenient meeting place for friends and families to catch up.   According to local lore, the first pub was built by man called Redrup. He opened it as a beerhouse in 1830. Although County Records for Stoke Hundred area show it first Licenced in 1853. What you visit now is a more modern building!
It has won the Horticultural Society's "Most Colourful Pub" several years running for its wonderful floral displays.

 

Mon 13 Apr 2026   7:30pm

  One-man Play: "Disraeli - Queen Victoria's Favourite Prime Minister" performed by Jeff Rozelaar.

The Main Hall, St. Andrew’s Centre, Rogers Lane, Stoke Poges, SL2 4LN

Benjamin Disraeli (by Francis Grant)This play has been performed by Jeff Rozelaar at the prestigious Wycombe Abbey School, Norden Farm, and Aylesbury Waterside studio theatre.
The play will be presented in two parts with an interval.

 

Mon 1 Jun 2026   7:30pm

  Talk on "Swan Upping - a 900 year old tradition"

The Main Hall, St. Andrew’s Centre, Rogers Lane, Stoke Poges, SL2 4LN
Swan-Uppers On River Thames
A presentation by Nicholas Brazil.
Using both video and slides this talk tells the long history of Swan Upping - the counting of the King’s swans and how it not only survives but plays an important role in the living history of the River Thames.
It also shows how and where anyone can observe this valuable piece of living history.

 

Jun 2026

  Annual coach outing.

Venue and date to be confirmed.

 

Sat 25 Jul 2026

  Our Stand at the Flower Show

The Grounds of Stoke Poges School, Rogers Lane, SL2 4LN

Visit our stand at the Annual Show of the Stoke Poges, Wexham and Fulmer Horticultural Society.

 

Mon 17 Aug 2026   7:30pm

  Society AGM followed by a Talk on “English Coaching Inns"

The Main Hall, St. Andrew’s Centre, Rogers Lane, Stoke Poges, SL2 4LN

The talk will be given by Julian Hunt.

 

Mon 5 Oct 2026   7:30pm

  Talk: "The Romans in Buckinghamshire"

The Main Hall, St. Andrew’s Centre, Rogers Lane, Stoke Poges, SL2 4LN
Romans in Bucks Talk

The talk will be given by Dr Jill Eyers who has been involved in a variety of interesting projects including Iron Age, Saxon and Norman sites, and, in particular, investigations into a Roman villa site in Buckinghamshire: Yewden Villa. The results of this project went world-wide with research into 97 baby burials. These findings were broadcast on BBC television’s "Digging for Britain" and have resulted in several professional papers.
She may bring along some Roman artefacts.
(You can listen to a little bit about it with Prof. Alice Roberts on this YouTube video).

Two Roman stone head busts from Stoke Mandeville HS2 digImages of stone Roman busts uneathed at St Mary's church, Stoke Mandeville during the HS2 dig.  Photos taken by Harvey Whittam when the busts were on display in the Discover Bucks Museum.

Born in London, with an early childhood in Australia, Dr Eyers studied geology achieving her doctorate in 1992. Since that time she has lectured for several UK universities, including Oxford, Open and Reading.  Her geological career took her to many parts of the world with projects in Brazil and Turkey being particularly exciting. Most of her professional work was as a freelance consultant.  Recently her geological expertise has been put to good use giving advice and training to archaeologists. This work became so successful that in 2006 she set up Chiltern Archaeology. 
Dr Eyers is a regular contributor to archaeological television programmes incuding Digging for Britain, as well as BBC Radio Oxford, BBC Berkshire and BBC London. If there is any time for anything else - she has filled it by writing numerous books.
Dr Eyers' books include a field guide series called 'Rocks Afoot', the Geology and Archaeology of Lycia, Turkey, Journey through the Chiltern Hills, Food down the ages, The Little Tree Book, Chiltern Trails and Tales, and Geology of the Norfolk coast.

 

Oct 2026

  Society Annual Luncheon.

Venue and date to be confirmed.

 

Mon 14 Dec 2026   7:30pm

  Our Christmas Social

The Main Hall, St. Andrew’s Centre, Rogers Lane, Stoke Poges, SL2 4LN

Entertainment, festive refreshments and an opportunity to socialise and have fun.


  Planning is ongoing for events in 2026.