Rook Lane Blog

March 8, 2016

In 2010 a metal detectorist, Dave Crisp, prospecting near Frome found what became known as the Frome Hoard – 52,503 Roman coins. The overwhelming significance of the Frome Hoard is the new light that it casts on the life of the emperor Carausius – Britain’s ‘forgotten emperor’.

February 22, 2016

Architect Peter Barber explores how space conditions and in turn is conditioned by society and culture and how Architecture can create the potential for social action & activity.

February 3, 2016

Join local, Regional and European experts to discuss how towns like Frome can support low carbon retrofit and renewable energy through finance, policy and planning.

January 13, 2016

Tracing how we got to our current crisis and how housing has come to reflect class and wealth in Britain, Danny Dorling shows that the solution to our problems – rising homelessness, a generation priced out of home ownership – is not, as is widely assumed, building more homes. Inequality, he argues, is what we really need to overcome.

January 13, 2016

Following the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2013, killing almost 1200 people, Engineer Ruth Haynes of Build Collective worked for Tim Khan in Dhaka to survey factories that supplied clothing to two major British retailers. Find out what she discovered and why we need to push for good governance, transparency and professional Engineering.

January 8, 2016

Drawing on evidence presented in his new book, Leading the Inclusive City, Robin Hambleton will suggest that imaginative place-based leadership can enable citizens to make a difference.

September 21, 2015

Join best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith for an evening of sheer delight at Rook Lane Chapel.

April 30, 2015

A must-see event for folk fans, English folk legend Shirley Collins brings stories and songs from her memoir “America Over the Water” to close Frome Festival 2015.

April 30, 2015

Frome Society for Local Study invites us to remember the evacuees who came to Frome during the second world war. Local author David Lassman coordinates the event, which combines film and the testimonies of evacuees and their hosts.

April 21, 2015

Writer, biographer and broadcaster Gillian Darley discusses Ian Nairn’s journey from the RAF to the Architectural Review in this month’s Architecture Club.