Thursday 21 May 2026
AGM followed by an update on what Civic Society have done this year
Thursday 1 October 2026
Judith Merrill: ‘A.F. Scott the individualist and his architecture’
Architect F.F. Scott (185401936( designed from the traditional to reinforced concrete. King’s lynn has one of a very few pre-First World War surviving buildings using reinforced concrete at 33-30 St James Street. The Victorian Society consider this A.F. Scott building to be of European importance. His great granddaughter will explain how his religious beliefs, independent travels and fantastic knowledge of structural engineering informed his work in Norfolk and beyond.
Thursday 5 November 2026
Kathey Hipperson tells us about Catherine Walpole
Learn about the wife of Robert Walpole, who married in 1700 and lived at Houghton Hall. ‘She had beauty and wit without vice or vanity, and cultivated the Arts without affectation’.
Thursday 3 December 2026
Drawing King’s Lynn with Izzy Wingham
Artist Izzy Wingham’s work is inspired by the rich history of Norfolk in particular the town of King’s Lynn. Izzy has recently published a illustrated book depicting some familiar buildings and lesser know corners of the town. Old heritage sites such as Castle Acre are favourite places to draw. Abbeys and ruins places of quiet, full of memories of the past.
Izzy exhibits regularly throughout the year with the West Norfolk Association of Artists. In 2019 she had the amazing opportunity of taking part in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year.
Mulled wine and mince pies.