AN OPEN weekend is being staged next week at Tavistock’s Quaker Meeting House.

The recently refurbished Meeting House is on 4 Canal Road, PL19 8AR (located at entrance to Tavistock’s main car park).

Anyone is welcome to drop in on Friday March 17, at 7pm, when Simon Dell will give a lecture on ‘Quakers, Dartmoor and Conscientious Objectors’.

The Meeting House will also be open on Saturday and Sunday March 18/19 from 9am to 6pm each day for visitors. Mary Andrews will give a talk on ‘Margaret Fell (an early founder of The Society of Friends/Quakers)- a woman way ahead of her time’ from 1pm on Saturday, followed by a talk by Simon Dell on ‘The Quaker Tapestry’, from 4pm on the same day. The normal meeting, from 10am to 11am, is on Sunday.