Chichester Literary Society

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Next Meeting

Wed 3 December

A Butler’s Christmas

Presented by Dr. Bob France

CLS Programme for 2026 now available. Please renew your membership for 2026.

Membership Details 2026  £50 p.a. No increase for 2026!

Please see our About page for renewal details.

Visitors/Non-members £8

On the door.

Students £2 on the door.

 

 

Meeting Venue

Boxgrove Village Hall,

PO18 OEE

Large free car park and a bus stop at the venue.

Stagecoach Bus Services link below:

https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south/chichester-services

Details

Wed 3 December

2pm

  A Butler’s Christmas

Presented by Dr. Bob France

Dr. Bob France

We have all heard the well worn phrase ‘The Butler did it”, but do we have any idea what the butler really did? One man who knows is Dr. Bob France, a guide at both Uppark and Petworth Houses. As a costumed Victorian Butler he will give an insight into life, both above and below stairs in these two great houses.

See below Photos and reports (Journal/Talks page) from Nov ’25 meeting  – Josh Brown on Dylan Thomas.

Local Literary News and Events

New book shop in South St. Chichester!

Open Mic Poetry Chichester

For more information please go to the website below.

Guest poets launch each session followed by an open mic. Listeners equally welcome. 7.30pm

 JUBILEE HALL, NEW PARK CENTRE, CHICHESTER, PO19 7XY.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Jean Rhys
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.The man who never reads lives only one.
George R.R. Martin
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Wortley Montague.

We welcome old and new members and visitors to Boxgrove Village Hall.

Josh Brown with Simon Brett - Nov Meeting
Unjudging Love - Josh Brown