Previous Company Events

Left to Right : Miss Emerald, Mr. Pitt Rivers, Professor Petrie, Miss Athena, Mr. Gaston Le Roux at Newstead Abbey	On the 7th of August 1897, Professor Petrie invited friends and acquaintances to join him for a picnic and outdoors performance of “The Water Babies” at Newstead Abbey. A splendid repast was provided by the cooks and a local cricket team proceeded to play on the green. After the feast the party took a turn around the late Lord Byron's most beautiful gardens. The players were much admired and Lord Brocket was moved to write a few lines of verse which he later recited at the professors residence.
	The professor told how his dig and experiments had been bizarrely disturbed at Hobhurst House Barrows, he suspected sabotage, and Athena told of the girls adventures at Little Dean Hall.