Registered Charity Number: 206002
|
The Battle Proms are proud to be supporting Combat Stress.
Combat Stress specialises in helping veterans of the Armed Forces and Merchant Navy with psychological injuries caused through service to their country.
Combat Stress have never been busier and are already working with the first veterans of the Iraq War to add to the list of veterans of recent conflicts and peacekeeping operations who currently need their help and support. A collection for Combat Stress will be held at the Battle Proms. |
|
|
 |
| Althorp has been home to the Spencer family for nearly 500 years, and contains a fascinating variety of pictures, furniture and ceramics, as well as boasting some fine interiors. Like many great country houses, it has benefited from the discriminating and varied collecting of generations of occupants, their marriages and chance provisions. |
| Althorp's collection of portraits is particularly fine, and justly famous. As a record of a family, and as a record of English portraiture, it is outstanding. The roll-call of names - Rubens, Van Dyck, Reynolds, Gainsborough will be familiar to everyone. But there are numerous rare and beautiful paintings by lesser-known artists which will appeal to casual visitors and connoisseurs alike. In the decorative arts, from carpets to candelabra, there is much which is distinguished. |
| There has been a house at Althorp since the beginning of the sixteenth century. Sir John Spencer acquired a 300-acre estate around Althorp in 1508 and his grandson, another Sir John, had made Althorp the principal Spencer home by the time of his death in 1586. The house itself is not the product of any one period, but has changed over the years. Its re-modellings naturally show the prevailing taste of the time, woven into a broader synthesis. The true medium for harmony, however, has been the house's continual ownership and occupation by the same family. |
| Althorp Park official website: www.althorp.com |
|
|
 |
Picnic Hampers
To order a superb picnic hamper for our Althorp Park concert CLICK HERE
|
|