Taplow Court will be open on the following Sunday afternoons from
2:30pm – 5pm: 5th May, 2nd June, 7th July, 4th August, and the National
Heritage Day on 15th September. As usual admission is free and cream
teas will be available for purchase. There will be two exhibitions
available for viewing.
The first exhibition marks the 300th anniversary of the signing of the
Treaty of Utrecht which was in fact a series of individual peace
treaties helping to bring the War of the Spanish Succession to an end.
George Hamilton, the first Earl of Orkney and the first British Field
Marshal, was the owner of Taplow Court at the beginning of the 18th
Century and played a major role in the negotiation of the Treaty.
The second exhibition is entitled
Choose Life – celebrating the power of dialogue.
This is about a dialogue which took place between the British historian
Arnold Toynbee and the Japanese Buddhist, President of SGI, Daisaku
Ikeda between 1972 and 1973. Their wide-ranging discussion resulted in
the book Choose Life, which contains the optimistic message that
humankind can find solutions to the many problems of the 21st Century.
SGI-UK would like to continue to extend our invitation to Taplow
village residents to enjoy the gardens and grounds of Taplow Court on
any weekend throughout the year. The gardens and grounds are open
between 10am and 5pm. No dogs please, although guide and alert dogs are
welcome.
Mike Yeadon