HLHS FORUM HEREFORDSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETIES Reminder of events September 2016 onwards ….. Harvest time in Somerset with Harvey
Co-ordinators: Rhys Griffith (HARC), Barbara Ferris (Dinedor), Valerie Goodbury (Friends of Herefordshire Archives) Rhianon Turrell (Yarpole), Peggy Platts (Dorstone) Newsletter Editor: Margot Miller (Fownhope) [email protected] ______Dates through September and on …. September 2-4 Historic Farm Buildings Group – Autumn Conference, Abergavenny
September 8-11 Heritage Open Days: see list of places to visit, and events
September 10 & 11 Re-enactment of Battle of Mortimers Cross at Croft Castle
Monday am 12 September HARC Workshop – Objects of Charity with Sylvia Pinches
Tuesday 13 September Breinton – David Lovelace on Digital Methods for Local Historians
Wednesday 14 September Bromyard: Black Mountains & Vale of Ewyas by Prof. David Austen Wednesday 14 September Ross Civic Society – Jon Hurley on Herefordshire Vineyards
Thursday 15 September WEA Ledbury day coach trip to Birmingham Art Gallery & Museum Thursday 15 September Eaton Bishop – talk by Chris Over on Rotherwas House & Park Thursday 15 September Hereford Civic Society – Hidden Treasures visit to Friars St Museum
Tuesday 20 September Garway Heritage Group – James Bisset on History of Orchards & Fruits
Saturday 1 Oct Mortimer History Soc. 1-day Symposium, Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Oct 3 or Oct 24 One-day course: Archive Film – a beginner’s guide, British Film Institute
Wednesday October 12 Tim Hoverd – archeological update at Dinedor Heritage Group Wednesday October 12 Keith Ray talk on Offa’s Dyke at Ross-on-Wye Civic Society
Saturday October 15 HLHS at HARC Workshop of Oral History with Bill Laws, & round-table Saturday October 15 Conference on St Johns Walk, Hereford Cathedral
Monday am 17 October HARC Workshop – Green Lanes with Heather Hurley
18 November – Launch of Fownhope’s 2nd volume: Fownhope Beyond Memory 1832-1918 HARC WORKSHOPS Monthly workshops at HARC from 10.30 – 12.30 designed to promote the wealth of HARC collections, helping with local history research, finding out what lies within Herefordshire’s collections of records. Pre-booking with HARC essential, cost £8 inc tea/coffee.
Monday September 12 with Sylvia Pinches Objects of Charity: themes & sources for researching the history of charities. This course gives an introduction to how charities operated in the past and what they can tell us about life in earlier times. It also identifies the records and physical evidence left by charities. There will be an opportunity to look at original documents.
Monday October 17 with Heather Hurley Green Lanes: the fascinating records of Herefordshire’s old lanes and roads.
HARC, 01432.260750 [email protected]
Report: Mass of the Assumption celebrated at Rotherwas Chapel on 15 August - first event arranged by the Friends of Rotherwas Chapel
Top left: Site of Rotherwas House Lower left: Chair of Friends of Rotherwas Chapel – Barbara Ferris with Father Paul Stonham, Abbot of Belmont Abbey, Hereford.
Garway Heritage Group
‘The History of Orchards and Orchard Fruits, from Pre-history to the Present Day’ James Bisset, Herefordshire Council Parks & Countryside Service
Tuesday, 20 September 7.30pm Garway Village Hall Admission free for members £4 for visitors (incl. refreshments) www.garwayheritagegroup.co.uk
th th Heritage Open Days 8 - 11 September Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for full details of each venue
Herefordshire Venues Bromyard History Society Saturday 10th September Afternoon (tbc) 5 Sherford Street Bromyard HR7 8DL Clodock Mill Sunday 11th September [email protected] nr Longtown HR2 0PD NGR: SO326273 see picture below Kington Museum Thursday 8th September 10.30am-4pm Mill Street Friday 9th September 10.30am-4pm Kington HR5 3AL Saturday 10th September 10.30am-1pm John Kyrle Summerhouse Sunday 11th September 2pm-5pm High Street Ross on Wye HR0 5VZ Longworth Chapel Saturday 10th September 10.30am-4pm Bartestree, Hereford HR1 4DX Merton House Hotel Sunday 11th September 2pm-5pm Edde Cross Street Ross on Wye HR9 7BZ Museum Resource Thursday 8th September 10am-12pm & Learning Centre Meet the Pests. A chance to drop in and see the pests caught in our 58 Friars Street traps and meet our volunteer entomologist. Event not suitable for Hereford HR4 OAS children under the age of 5 Treferanon Saturday 10th September 2pm-5pm St Weonards Sunday 11th September 2pm-5pm HR2 8QF Worcester Infirmary Museum see below Wythall Sunday 11th September 2pm-5pm Bulls Hill, Walford Ross on Wye HR9 5SD Rotherwas Chapel Chapel Road, Hereford HR2 6LD (Turn right at roundabout & left before Council waste tip) Saturday 10th September 12 noon – 4 pm HARC Conservation Day Thursday 8th September – see below
Clodock Mill, nr Longtown, HR2 0PD (see website for details)
NATIONAL HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 8-11 SEPTEMBER
The Old Nurses Home at Mulberry House and The Infirmary – exploring Worcester’s medical stories Tours of the Infirmary Museum – Saturday 10 September at 11am, 1pm, 2pm Take a walk round the old Worcester Royal Infirmary original building. An experienced guide will take you round (40 minutes). The Infirmary, University of Worcester, City Campus, Infirmary Walk, Castle Street, Worcester WR1 3AS Tel 01905.542373 [email protected] Website: medicalmuseum.org.uk
HARC CONSERVATION DAY - Thursday 8 September Behind the scenes with the Conservation Team Four tours lasting 1 hour. Watch us washing documents (yes, really!) and repairing them; sewing together a book; making sink mats for broken glass plat negatives; and maybe even gilding a picture frame (tbc). And of course, you can ask us lots of difficult questions.
To book a place, speak to our Receptionist - 01432.260750 [email protected]
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DINEDOR HERITAGE GROUP
Wednesday 12 October Dinedor Village Hall 7.30pm Tim Hoverd with an update on Herefordshire Archeology
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 September - Re-enactment Battle of Mortimers Cross at Croft Castle (National Trust) Yarpole, nr Leominster HR6 9PW 10.30 – 5.00 Saturday and Sunday Contact: Jason O’Keefe 07845.268011 [email protected]
Bromyard & District Local History Society invites you to a talk at the Conquest Theatre by Professor David Austin Wednesday 14 September 7.30pm Members free, visitors £3 The medieval and early modern landscapes of the Black Mountains with a focus on the Vale of Ewyas buildings
The magnificent later 15th century hall-house at Llwyn Celyn, at the southern end of the Vale of Ewyas in the Black Mountains, is currently being restored by the Landmark Trust. Professor Austin has worked with them to understand something of its documented history involving reconstructing landscapes and understanding something of the social dynamics of a long-running dispute between tenants and landlords which began during the time of Owain Glyndŵr at the beginning of the 15th century. David Austin is Emeritus Professor at the University of Wales, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, of the Royal Historical Society and the Learned Society of Wales. He is a landscape archaeologist with interests spanning from the Middle Ages to modern times and he has conducted a series of major excavations in Britain and France with a growing focus on Wales.
HLHS Forum at HARC Saturday 15 October HLHS Workshop on Oral History with by Bill Laws Contact: HARC - [email protected] ______
Breinton History Group Breinton Village Hall HR4 7PJ Refreshments Raffle 7.30 pm All welcome Non-members £3 Tuesday 13 September David Lovelace talk on Digital Methods for Local Historians
Tuesday 4 October David Hill talk on Treasures lost in the local landscape Contact: [email protected] (with local participation) ______
Eaton Bishop Historical Society Thursday 15 September 7.30 pm Eaton Bishop Village Hall, HR2 9QN £4 inc refreshments, all welcome Contacts: Tim Coleman 01981.250111 or Caroline Hanks 01981.251016 Talk by Christopher Over on Rotherwas House & Park & the Bodenham Family
Site of Rotherwas House – the bank under the tall trees
ROSS-ON-WYE CIVIC SOCIETY Larruperz Centre, Ross-on-Wye 7.0pm for 7.30pm Non-members £5 Wednesday 14 September Jon Hurley - talk on Herefordshire Vineyards Wednesday 12 October Keith Ray - talk on Offa’s Dyke
WEA LEDBURY BRANCH STUDY VISIT TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH 2016 Visit to Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum and the Barber Institute The day gives an excellent opportunity to visit two of the foremost Art Galleries in the Midlands. In the morning at the Birmingham Art Gallery, we will be given a guided tour of Highlights of the Pre- Raphaelites, one of the finest collection of these paintings in the world. We are then free to visit the rest of the Gallery and Museum or to explore some buildings of the exciting new centre of the City: the Library, Repertory Theatre and Symphony Hall area and have time to have lunch( either at one of the many eating places, or picnic) The coach will then take us to The Barber Institute , Birmingham University, to see All the World’s a Stage, a Special exhibition of Elizabethan and Jacobean Art by the Institute, in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, marking the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death; showing portraits, prints, sculptures and miniatures of Court, Patrons and Writers in Shakespeare’s circle. ( barber.org.uk exhibitions) The gallery has its own famous art collection which can be seen afterwards or there will be time for a cup of tea in the Institute, before returning by coach to Ledbury.
Anne of Denmark Robert Devereaux Shakespeare
COST: £20 includes entrance fees and coach fare. TRAVEL: The coach will leave Homebase Car Park ( free) at 8.50am and The Market House at 9.00am Return by 6.00pm As places are limited you are advised to book early NB There are lifts in the Museum if stairs are a problem; please let us know. Booking and further information: Wendy Hill, 01531 634333 The Copse, Wellington Heath. Ledbury HR8 1ND
MORTIMER HISTORY SOCIETY
ON THE TRAIL OF THE MORTIMERS Top right – launch of the book On the Trail of the Mortimers last May; left author Philip Hume and right founder of MHS John Grove. Part of the Mortimer Trail programme includes work with 8 primary schools to develop a local history project on the Mortimer dynasty. Part of this was a day in June when 300 children spent an excellent day at Ludlow Castle being introduced to an assortment of ‘medieval characters and activities’.
Saturday 1st October 2016 Autumn Symposium
An all-day event to be held in Ludlow Assembly Rooms. Members £10, non-members £13 (make your own arrangements for lunch)
Confirmed Speakers Dr David Stephenson (Bangor University) Resistance to Conquest: Eastern Wales in the 13th Century Dr Carol Davidson Cragoe (Architectural Historian) Wigmore Castle: How to Recreate a Ruin John Cherry (Emeritus Curator, British Museum) Heraldry on Medieval Metalwork John Grove (Founder of MHS) The Last of the Mortimer Stars - A Woman Hugh Wood (MHS) The Medieval Heraldic Roll of Ludlow Castle The Ludlow Castle Heraldic Roll will be on display at this event together with Mortimer-related artefacts unearthed at Wigmore. mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk
Archive Film – A Beginner’s Guide A one day practical workshop, delivered by Huntley Film Archives, on how to preserve, access and use archive film. This programme is supported by Creative Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, which is funded by the BFI with National Lottery, through the Skills Investment Fund.
The world of film archives is little understood yet there are thousands of collections out there that can be used and made accessible in many type of context – an individual with their home movies, a museum with a few films on the shelf or an industry archive with films they don’t know how to use, right up to a large film collection wanting to know more about to how reach different users. This one day conference hopes to de-mystify, inspire and encourage whilst dealing with some of those issues and offer practical useable solutions. We will imagine that you are managing an archive film collection and work though the issues you will encounter and the problems we will need to solve.
Who Are Huntley Film Archives We are a leading UK training company who specialise and teach nothing but…Archive Film. We have had over thirty years managing a huge collection of celluloid film and fund our preservation work though commercial licensing. Amanda Huntley has been teaching for Creative Skillset, Cyfle, BAFTA, Focal and the London Screen Archives. Everything that is taught is practised and proven, with teaching based around simple and affordable solutions to analogue films in a digital age. www.huntleyarchives.com [email protected] Ph: +44 (0) 1981 241 580 Who Should Attend Anyone wishing to better understand Archive Film. Production professionals aiming to better manage in-house film resources. Heritage professionals, archivists and curators who are seeking to better utilise historical archive footage. What Will You Learn Film Archives and the work they do. From film to file. Practical hands-on session of film handling to build confidence in celluloid. Cataloguing and research – getting the best from your content. Fielding commercial enquiries – the business behind archiving. Legal issues faced by anyone owning a collection large and small. When Monday 3rd OR Monday 24th October 0930 – 1700 Maximum 12 participants per workshop. The course content will be identical on both dates. Where British Film Institute, 21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN How Much £145 + VAT (Price includes detailed course handouts, use of all materials, morning and afternoon tea/coffee and lunch.) How Do I Book - email to [email protected] Please note places are strictly limited to 12 participants on each date and will be allocated on a first received first booked basis. For further information : www.huntleyarchives.com/courses
HEREFORD CATHEDRAL S JOHN’S WALK PROJECT Saturday 15 September 10 am - 4:30 pm
A conference to share recent discoveries made during the restoration of St John’s Walk Chaired by Julian Richards Topics covered include: the architecture and archaeology of the Walk lives and times of the Vicars Choral saving the bryophytes - the ecology of a roof SpeSpeakers: Julian Richards, archaeologist, author and presenter of BBC Meet the Ancestors (ARCHAEmedia) Robert Kilgour, Cathedral Architect, Richard Morriss, Cathedral Archaeologist, Dr Paul Smith, ecologist (Botanical Investigations/ University of Bristol Earth Sciences), Clare Wichbold, Hereford Cathedral Perpetual Trust, and others. Venue: College Hall, Hereford Cathedral. Tickets: £15 per person available from Hereford Cathedral Shop. Contact: 01432 374210 [email protected] TiTickTickets include FREE admission to the accompanying exhibition, see below, and tea, coffee etc. during the day. Lunch is not included but can be purchased at Café Mundi within the Cathedral or one of the numerous cafes in Hereford.
What Lies Beneath: a new exhibition celebrating the St John’s Walk Project – a rare A ra opportunity to see the JMW Turner painting of St John’s Walk, as well as view finds from recent excavations and learn more about new discoveries made during the project. Venue: The Mappa Gallery Tickets: £6 per person (concessions available)
HEREFORD CIVIC SOCIETY Thursday 15 September Hidden Treasures - visit to Museum Resource & Learning Centre Friars Street, Hereford HR4 0AS Meet at the Centre 7pm for 7.30pm Book with Mo Burns [email protected]