Sir George Agnew, the owner of Rougham Estate, will give us an interesting and historical walking tour, from Blackthorpe Barns to Rougham Hall.
The walk will last approximately two and a half hours, with  sensible footwear and bringing water.recommended.  It will be over rough and uneven surfaces.

A visit to Blickling Hall for a talk and tour around the Textile and Conservation Studio. This is the National Trust’s only specialist in-house textile conservation facility.    

The afternoon offers a chance to wander round Blickling Hall and gardens.  Cafes, shop and pub are on site.

An exclusive and personal tour around West Stow Hall with its turrets, gatehouse and colonnade to take your breath away.

The house is set in six acres of beautiful grounds featuring areas of formal gardens and woodland as well as orchards and paddocks. It's just 10 minutes from Bury St Edmunds and full of history. The hall is believed to have been built by Sir John Croftes, Master of Horse to Mary Tudor, Queen of France and the Duchess of Suffolk, whose final resting place is at nearby St Mary’s Church in Bury St Edmunds. It features Elizabethan wall paintings discovered during Victorian restoration.

The tour is followed by cakes, tea and coffee

This trip is sold out but to join a waiting list, please contact Julia Eeles by phone on 01352 240838 or 07896 311389 or email juliaeeles@hotmail.co.uk.

An exclusive and personal tour around West Stow Hall with its turrets, gatehouse and colonnade to take your breath away.

The house is set in six acres of beautiful grounds featuring areas of formal gardens and woodland as well as orchards and paddocks. It's just 10 minutes from Bury St Edmunds and full of history. The hall is believed to have been built by Sir John Croftes, Master of Horse to Mary Tudor, Queen of France and the Duchess of Suffolk, whose final resting place is at nearby St Mary’s Church in Bury St Edmunds. It features Elizabethan wall paintings discovered during Victorian restoration.

The tour is followed by cakes, tea and coffee

This trip is sold out but to join a waiting list, please contact Julia Eeles by phone on 01352 240838 or 07896 311389 or email juliaeeles@hotmail.co.uk.

Self-drive to Newmarket Road Park and Ride (recommended). Timings and lunch arrangement to follow.

GUIDED TOUR - Wednesday 22nd May 2024 at 2.00 p.m.

Island Hall is the Georgian Ancestral Home of the Vane Percy Family, who have lived there for eight generations. It is a beautiful house to visit and is set in one and a half acres of formal garden with river frontage. After a private guided tour around the house, afternoon tea will be served in the house. We will then be free to wander around the gardens.

Guided tour, coffee and cakes, and a light lunch. Please contact Julia Eeles, Visits Organiser, on 01359 240838 or email juliaeeles@hotmail.co.uk to book your place. Cost is £24

Please come and join us at Audley End House and we will spend the day enjoying the history of the house and strolling around the gardens.

We  meet at 10:30 am in the main car park so that we can form a group and enjoy a discount. The Main Car Park is about 10 minutes walk from the ticket office. If you have a Blue Badge or find walking difficult, then please use the disabled car park and then meet our group at the ticket office at 10:40 am.

Full details and application form will be available in September 2022

Please click HERE for the details and application form.

A conducted tour of the Guildhall Bury St Edmunds followed by a delicious cream tea.

Ssssh! It’s a Secret!!

Venice Registered Tour Guide, Luisella Romeo, will take us on a virtual tour of Venice, both along the off-the-beaten track paths and the major attractions of the city.

Tuesday 15th June at 11am.

Details have already been sent out to the membership.

This event has been rescheduled to Tuesday 12th October, 2021

Please click here for the details and application form.

Please click here for the details and application form.

Click here for details and application form.

Click here for details and application form.

Our Spring visit - please click here for details.

Please see the attached documents below for details and booking a place on these two events, again organised by Derek Osborne.

La Traviata

Norwich Theatre Royal - Tuesday 13th November (evening) - details and Booking Form

The Nutcracker

Norwich Theatre Royal - Thursday 22nd November (matinee) - details and Booking Form

Please see attached Flyer for details.

'Creating an Imaginary World' - a new illustrated talk to be given by Bertie Pearce (Magic Circle gold-star member).

Click here for details and application form for this talk.

Somerleyton Hall is one of the finest Victorian stately homes in the country. It is still a family home with many fine portraits of the Crossley family through the generations. The beautiful ornate gardens are set in 12 acres with a variety of different features including a maze. A private garden tour has been arranged.

See Flyer for details and booking of this visit.

A visit has been organised to the Newmarket National (Horse-Racing) Heritage Centre and Museum.

Details and an Application Form can be found here.

Please contact our Visits Organiser, Julia Eeles, for more information and to book your place.

E: juliaeeles@hotmail.co.uk       T: 01359 240838

Derek has kindly organised 2 trips for DFAS member to Norwich Theatre to see an opera and a ballet 

1. Thursday 28th September - Northern Ballet Company’s production of ‘The Little Mermaid’. By Hans Christian Anderson.

Matinee Performance 

    Program
 
10.30    Depart Ram Meadow car park, Bury St Edmunds
11.30    Approximate, arrival Norwich (John Lewis drop off then Theatre Royal)
14.30    Performance starts
16.20    Approximate end of performance.
16.30    Coach departs for Bury St Edmunds
17.30    Approximate time of arrival back in Bury
 
 
The cost of this outing is £42.50 including return travel, driver’s gratuity and seats in the stalls in price band A. I have again made our society a ‘Group Member’ of the theatre for the year and therefore get a reduction on these tickets.
 
 PLEASE BOOK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.    Cheques may be dated 1st of June 2017
 
Application by post to;-
Derek Osborne, Grove Cottage, Palmer Street, Walsham le Willows, Suffolk. IP31 3BZ
Tel; 01359 258115. Mobile 07860 366679
 
If you require an acknowledgement please enclose a sae. No refunds will be made on cancellations, unless the seat can be reallocated, then the cost, less £5.00 will be returned.
Cancellations to Visits Organiser only; Derek Osborne.


Please reserve………………….seatsNorthern Ballet’s ‘The Little Mermaid’
 
In the name/s of………………………………………………………………………
 
 
Cheques made payable to;- West Suffolk DFAS for £……………………
 
If you prefer download the document, please click on  the link:     http://bit.ly/2vaMkKk
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
2. Wednesday 15th November Glyndebourne on Tour, Rossini’s ‘Barber of Seville’
 
16.00    Depart from below the old Manor House car park, in front of the Premier Inn, Bury St Edmunds
17.15    Approximate, arrival Theatre Royal, Norwich. (Theatre Restaurant 01603 598577)
19.15    Performance starts
22.00    Approximate end of performance
22.15   Coach departs for Bury St Edmunds
23.00    Approximate time of arrival back in Bury
 
 
The cost of this outing is £56.50 including return travel, driver’s gratuity and seats in the stalls in price band A. I have again made our society a ‘Group Member’ for the year, and therefore get a reduction on these tickets.  PLEASE BOOK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.       Cheques may be dated 1st June 2017
 
 
Application by post to;-
Derek Osborne, Grove Cottage, Palmer Street, Walsham le Willows, Suffolk. IP31 3BZ
Tel; 01359 258115. Mobile 07860 366679
 
If you require an acknowledgement please enclose a sae. No refunds will be made on cancellations, unless the seat can be reallocated, then the cost, less £5.00 will be returned.
Cancellations to Visits Organiser only; Derek Osborne.
 
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
 
 
Please reserve………………….seats                 Rossini’s ‘Barber of Seville’
 
In the name/s of………………………………………………………………………………………………..
 
 
Cheques made payable to;- West Suffolk DFAS for £…………………………………………….
 
 If you prefer download the document, please click on  the link:     http://bit.ly/2tRoYVS

If you have any questions please contact:

Derek Osborne, Grove Cottage, Palmer Street, Walsham le Willows, Suffolk. IP31 3BZ
Tel; 01359 258115. Mobile 07860 366679
 

Overnight stay 4th/5th July.

More information in February.

More information in February.

More information in January

Glyndebourne on Tour, Puccini’s ‘Madam Butterfly’
Wednesday 23rd November 2016

Please click here to downolad the file.
 

If you do not have a printer please send your cheque with the following information to:

Derek Osborne, Grove Cottage, Palmer Street, Walsham le Willows, Suffolk. IP31 3BZ

Please reserve………………….seats                 Puccini’s ‘Madam Butterfly’

In the name/s of………………………………………………………………………………

Cheques made payable to;- West Suffolk DFAS for £………………

Northern Ballet Company’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Matinee Performance, Theatre Royal Norwich
Thursday 27th October 2016

Please click here to download the information.

If you do not have a printer please send your cheque and this information to:

Derek Osborne, Grove Cottage, Palmer Street, Walsham le Willows, Suffolk. IP31 3BZ
Tel; 01359 258115. Mobile 07860 366679

 
Please reserve………………….seats    Northern Ballet ‘Beauty and the Beast’
 
In the name/s of…………………………………………………………………………
 
 
Cheques made payable to;- West Suffolk DFAS for £…………………………………………….
  

info@westsuffolk-dfas.org.uk     

Visit including exhibition '300 years of Capability Brown'

info@westsuffolk-dfas.org.com

For information on the WSDFAS visit to The Birmingham Jewellery Centre on 8th March 2016, please click here.

If you would like to attend please print the form, fill it in and return it to Derek Osborne as soon as possible.

BIRMINGHAM: Tour of Jewellery Centre & visit to Museum of Art, including some of the Staffordshire Hoard

The Theatre Royal Norwich.  Sold Out.

To book or for more information, please contact Derek Osborne:

Phone 01359 258115

Mobile 07860 366679

e-mail info@westsuffolk-dfas.org.uk

SOLD OUT!

Theatre Royal Norwich

A critically acclaimed revival directed by Mariame Clément, this opulent period staging catches the sparkling essence of Donizetti’s tuneful tale of an old bachelor’s romantic delusions and the young lovers who outwit him.

Pasquale, a man no longer in the first flush of youth, hopes to marry and produce an heir, being dissatisfied with the current holder of that position, his nephew Ernesto, who has had the audacity to fall in love with Norina, an impoverished widow. The plot thickens, twists and turns as Pasquale’s supposed friend Dr Malatesta assists Ernesto and Norina in complex and increasingly vindictive deception.

Don Pasquale’s witty musical score combines graceful lyricism with rollicking comedy, all fuelled by the seductive rhythm of the waltz.