BLHA Speakers List 23/12/2013

In Topic/Speaker sequence

Speaker title edition ed date society

BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS

Valerie Alasia History of Henley workhouse 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley

Barbara Askew The Windsor Fire Restoration 111 2015 Jan Wargrave Jane Burrell The history of Speen church 114 2016 Jan Newbury 2015 John Chapman Purley Magna 112 May Purley Berkshire connections with the Foundling 2015 Gillian Clark Hospital 113 Sept Dils Symposium Ann Done Girdler - The house 114 2016 Jan Swallowfield 2013 Leslie Grout St Georges Chapel Windsor 107 Sept Wargrave Sue Hester The open-air Sanatorium 112 2015 Sandhurst Brian Kemp Reading Abbey's Royal Connections 112 2015 Reading Brian Kemp The royal abbey of Reading 114 2016 Jan Purley 2013 Lindsay Kerr Bramshill House 107 Sept Sandhurst 2013 Dr David Lewis The mediaeval hospital of St Peter in Windsor 106 May Sandhurst Air Marshal 2013 McFadyn Windsor Castle 106 May Hungerford Corey Stanley watermill 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley 2014 Mark Stevens History of Broadmoor Hospital 110 Sept Wargrave Cory Stirling and Mill 111 2015 Jan Twyford 2013 Alan Turton Basing House 107 Sept Sandhurst Peter van 2014 Went Reading Blue Coat School 110 Sept Reading Ben Viljoen Repton at Purley Magna 112 2015 Purley Peter van 2014 Went Reading Bluecoat School 109 May Reading Rupert Kings, Knights and Monks - the history of 2013 Willoughby Reading Abbey 106 May Pangbourne Liz Wooley 19th Century lodging houses 114 2016 Jan Goring Gap COMPANIES AND ORGANISATIONS

Cecily Amos History of Huntley & Palmers 111 2015 Jan Twyford 2015 Margaret Bilbe Working at Huntley and Palmers 112 May Shinfield Tom Macey Jacksons of Reading 108 2014 Jan Reading Kate Pyne History of AWE 109 2014 Hungerford A time of plenty - an engineering firm in 2013 Ellie Thorne Newbury 106 May Pangbourne

CULTURAL TOPICS

2013 Evolution of Morris Dancing 107 Sept Reading Dr Penny 2013 Billyeald WW1 poets 106 May Pangbourne

Nick Brazil Literary and Artistic Footprints of the Thames 111 2015 Jan Purley 2014 Nick Brazil Thames Valley artists and writers 110 Sept Pangbourne Jane Burrell Poets of the Somme 114 2016 Jan Newbury John Harrison English styles Bell ringing 111 2015 Jan Sandhurst John Harrison English Style Bells and bell ringing 111 2015 Jan Swallowfield

Robert Hughes The history of photography 111 2015 Jan Shinfield 2013 David Lee Films of local interest 107 sept Reading Graham Starkie Our osier past 114 2016 Jan Twyford Andy Thomas A celebratory history of Christmas 114 2016 Jan Swallowfield

INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES

2015 Katie Amos The Timms family of Reading & London 113 Sept Reading Nicola Cornick The Cravens of Ashdown House 108 2014 Jan Hungerford Lyn Davies Living in the shadow of Dylan Thomas 111 2015 Jan Pangbourne 2013 Prof Lyn Davies The Breedon estate 106 May Pangbourne 2014 Lyn Davies Dylan Thomas 110 Sept Pangbourne Brenda 2014 Goddard The Girdler Family 109 May Swallowfield 2013 Tony Hadland Thomas Vachell and his family 107 Sept Reading 2014 John Price Edmund Halley 110 Sept Sandhurst 2014 Gregory Stores Charles Dickens 109 May Goring & Streatley 2015 Tony Verey My eminent Twyford family 113 Sept Twyford Alan 2015 Winchcombe Achievements of Sir Beachcroft Towse 112 May Goring & Streatley

TOWNS AND VILLAGES

Philleda 2015 Ballard Culham Court 113 Sept Wargrave

Sally Botwright London Oddities 108 2014 Jan Sandhurst 2013 David Bullock Jack the Ripper and the Windsor connection 106 May Windsor

John Chapman Purley from the Air 111 2015 Jan Purley 2013 Ken Clarke The history of Camberley 107 Sept Sandhurst Mike Cooper History of Tilehurst 112 2015 Reading 2015 Mike Cooper a History of Tilehurst 113 Sept Tilehurst Library

Alan Copeland The changing face of Reading 108 2014 Jan Twyford 2014 Stan Cornford A stroll around St Georges Chapel Windsor 110 Sept Shinfield Twyford: scattered houses to prosperous 2013 Audrey Curtis village 107 Sept Twyford Lyn Davies The History of Pangbourne 114 2016 Jan BHEF 2015 Lyn Davis Pangbourne - a century of change 1830-1930 112 May Pangbourne Joan Dils History of Whiteknight Park 114 2016 Jan Reading Ann Dodd before the University 111 2015 Jan Berks Archaeological 2015 Simon Draper The Parish of Newington 113 Sept Goring Dr Elise Fraser The Silchester excavations 108 2014 Jan Wargrave Ann Griffin The archaeology of Knowl Hill 114 2016 Jan BHEF Elizabeth 2014 Hazeldine Fillets Court 110 Sept Wargrave Peter Hearn Hennerton 112 2015 Wargrave John Hughesdon The civic city of London 114 2016 Jan Newbury Mike Hurst Goring's wonderful railway 109 2014 Goring & Streatley Janet Hurst Goring and Streatley 114 2016 Jan BHEF Andrew Hutt The archaeology of Pangbourne 114 2016 Jan BHEF Bill King Walking the part 2 114 2016 Jan Purley Tony King Vanished London 114 2016 Jan Shinfield Rebecca 2014 Lambert Excavations at Runfold Quarry 110 Sept Sandhurst Keith Parry The fight for Cookham Commons 111 2015 Jan Maidenhead Dr Hugh 2014 Pihlens The town and manor of Hungerford 109 May Hungerford Patsy Roynon History of Loddon Drive 109 2014 Wargrave Margaret Simons Housing estates in Whitley 108 2014 Jan Reading Margaret Simons From Belford Regis to Biscuit town 114 2016 Jan Shinfield Margaret 2015 Simons The making of modern Reading 113 Sept Twyford Graham Engineering history of Kings Cross and St Stanley Pancras stations 114 2016 Jan Swallowfield David Ward Geology of Bowsey Hill 114 2016 Jan Wargrave Alan 2014 Winchcombe A virtual tour of Goring 109 May Goring & Streatley Jameson 2014 Wooders Life in early moderrnm Twyford & Ruscombe 109 May Twyford Dr Jameson Woodey Life in Shinfield area 1600-1750 108 2014 Jan Shinfield

MILITARY

2013 Michael Aris The Duke of Wellington and Stratfield Saye 107 Sept Wargrave Richard 2015 Bennett The Trooper Potts VC Memorial Trust 112 May Reading 2015 Andrew Bird The RFC in Reading in WW1 113 Sept Reading

John Chapman The Royal Berkshire Regiment in WW1 111 2015 Jan Pangbourne 2014 Mike Cooper The Siege of Reading 110 Sept Swallowfield 2013 Mike Cooper The bombing of a Southern town 107 Sept Reading Stan Cornford Three Berkshire Brothers go to War 111 2015 Jan Maidenhead 2013 Roger Day The Local Defence Volunteers 107 Sept Hungerford 2014 Roger Day The Western Kennet valley in the Great War 109 May Hungerford Inderpal Dhanjal The legacy of valour project 114 2016 Jan Swallowfield 2014 Tony Eaton They failed to return 110 Sept Swallowfield Aldon 2013 Ferguson Local airfields 106 May Wargrave 2015 ken Fostekew The No 1 School of Aeronautics 113 Sept Goring Ken Fostekew The air force in Reading in WW1 114 2016 Jan Twyford Andrew French History of the Berkshire Yeomanry 114 2016 Jan Newbury Inderpal 2015 Ghanjal Legacy of Valour 113 Sept Battle Library Sir Max Hastings The origins of WW1 108 2014 Jan Hungerford Mike Hurst Tracks to the trenches 114 2016 Jan Goring Gap Stuart Hylton Reading in WW2 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley

Tony Keep Policing Berkshire and Reading during WW1 114 2016 Jan Reading David Oliver Cold war sites in Berkshire 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley Trevor Sapey The Mary Rose 111 2015 Jan Purley Margaret Simons Home front Reading 1914-18 114 2016 Jan Shinfield John Smith The Roman Army & its equipment 111 2015 Jan Berks Archaeological Alan Turton The Mary Rose 112 2015 Goring & Streatley Mike Willoughby Tracing the names of WW1 servicemen 111 2015 Jan Goring & Streatley Liz Woolley World War II 111 2015 Jan Goring & Streatley

MISCELLANEOUS

Ghosts and gouls of Surrey Heath 111 2015 Jan Sandhurst Graham Bilbe The story of toy trains 114 2016 Jan Shinfield

Stuart Brookes Anglo-Saxon Assembly Places 111 2015 Jan Berks Archaeological

Sue Broughton Copyright and data protection 111 2015 Jan Pangbourne

John Chapman Ephemera can be fun 108 2014 Jan Reading Duncan Coe Managing Archaeology in West Berkshire 106 2013 Pangbourne Joan Dils 100 years of Berkshire County Council 112 2015 Reading 2013 David Ford Legends of Berkshire 107 Sept Twyford Alex Godden Recent archaeology in West Berkshire 114 2016 Jan Newbury Gordon 2015 Goodey Anglo-Saxon Berkshire 113 Sept Twyford Christina Hill- Williams The history and role of the High Sherriff 111 2015 Jan Wargrave 2015 Sue Hourigan Parish Registers for Family History 113 Sept Berks RO Sue Hourigan The good the bad and the ugly 114 2016 Jan Pangbourne 2015 Sue Hourigan The Good, the bad and the ugly 113 Sept Reading Central Library Pauline 2014 Humphreys The House of Lords 110 Sept Twyford Stuart Hylton Reading in the 1950s 114 2016 Jan Reading Tony King The Way it was 112 2015 Shinfield

Martin Labram A Geographic Information system 114 2016 Jan BHEF Anthony Poulton-Smith Berkshire place names 114 2016 Jan Wargrave Catherine 2015 Sampson Unusual aspects of Berkshire churches 112 May Pangbourne 2013 Liz Saunders Guide dogs for the blind 107 Sept Sandhurst Roy Sheppard History of postcard collecting 114 2016 Jan Wargrave 2013 Mr Stafford Bishops, sex, money and the tower 107 Sept Twyford Caroline 2014 Stanford The work of the Landmark Trust 110 Sept Wargrave Tony Strafford Ladies in the tower 109 2014 Twyford Andy Thomas Crop circles and other mysteries 111 2015 Jan Swallowfield Ellie Thorne Berkshire Record Office archives 109 2014 Goring & Streatley Alan Turton Magna Carta 114 2016 Jan Goring Gap 2015 Sheila Viner Watermills on the Thames & Loddon 113 Sept Wargrave

NATURE AND COUNTRYSIDE

A disappearing landscape for the heathlands of 2015 Alan Crosby Berks, Surrey & Hants borders 113 Sept Dils Symposium Dominik Fleitmann Climate change and society 111 2015 Jan Berks Archaeological Colin Gray Fleet Pond 109 2014 Sandhurst Peter Halman Parks 111 2015 Jan Sandhurst Peter Halman A walk through the park 106 2013 Twyford Val Pretlove City of London hidden gardens 108 2014 Jan Sandhurst 2014 Jane Sellwood Historic Pathways 109 May Shinfield

SPORTS AND SOCIAL

Brian 2013 Armstrong Experiences of a rowing coach 106 May Wargrave 2015 Barry Boulton Local trades and businesses 113 Sept Shinfield 2014 Carol Brown Spies in petticoats 110 Sept Sandhurst Rev David The impact of the Anglican Prayer Book on Bunney Hungerfotd 108 2014 Jan Hungerford Mildred Cookson Life and times of a miller at Mapledurham 108 2014 Jan Wargrave 2014 Hilary Craven Eversley Barn Antiques 110 Sept Swallowfield Joan Dils Tudor and Stuart Feasts 111 2015 Jan Wargrave Edward Dixon The Suffragettes 1860-1928 111 2015 Jan Maidenhead David Some Berkshire Folk Tales 112 2015 Sandhurst David Ford Dangerous times in Tudor Berkshire 111 2015 Jan Twyford 2013 James Fort Scandals and crimes on railways 107 Sept Twyford Fred Freeman Life as the village Chemist 109 2014 Wargrave Tony Hadland On your bike 112 2015 Goring & Streatley 2014 Tony Hadland Pop pirates of the 1960s 110 Sept Purley 2015 Tony Hadland Recusancy in Oxon ans Berks 113 Sept Purley

Colin Henwood Tradional Thames boats 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley Dr Christina 2014 Hill-Williams The role of the modern High Sheriff 109 May Hungerford Jane Hirst A taste of life in 1942 111 2015 Jan Sandhurst Roger Hovell They'll kill you for a pound 109 2014 Reading 2014 Roger Hovell Crime in the Oxford Rd Reading 110 Sept Reading Dennis 2013 Johnson Trade and Industry in 18&19c Reading 107 Sept Twyford

Jonathan Jones The town crier from Farnham 111 2015 Jan Swallowfield 2014 Tony King The Edwardians 110 Sept Shinfield Tony King The Edwardians 112 2015 Twyford Tim Metcalfe Farming in Purley 112 2015 Purley Sue Milton Swan Uppers on the Thames 112 2015 Goring & Streatley Shaun Morley Custom and ritual in 19th C 111 2015 Jan Goring & Streatley Robert 2013 Needham A history of Bell ringing 106 May Twyford

Richard Nurick A history of wine 111 2015 Jan Pangbourne Calendars - The many ways of counting our 2015 Colin Oakes time 113 Sept Shinfield Trevor 2013 Ottlewski Early Domestic lighting 106 May Sandhurst Trevor Ottlewski Purpose built villages 108 2014 Jan Twyford Trevor 2015 Ottlewski Purpose built villages 112 May Wargrave Victorian millionaires and their riverside Keith Parry mansions 108 2014 Jan Twyford Norman Rees Life and times of an ITN reporter 108 2014 Jan Wargrave Francoise 2015 Richardson Crime and especially punishment 112 May Pangbourne Stephen 2014 Rowley 500 years of Morris Dancing 110 Sept Twyford Catherine 2015 Sampson Georgian kitchens and cookery 112 May Sandhurst Margaret 2014 Simons Council Housing in Reading 110 Sept Reading Philip Smith History of the Wargrave Tennis Club 112 2015 Wargrave Mark Stevens Victorian crime and Broadmoor 114 2016 Jan Twyford Priests & People - changing relationships in S 2015 Kate Tiller Oxon 113 Sept Dils Symposium Sheila Miles Viner Watermills of the Thames and tributaries 111 2015 Jan Maidenhead Christine 2014 Weightman A Victorian bobby's notebook 110 Sept Sandhurst 2015 Clive Williams Nabobs of Berkshire 113 Sept Swallowfield

TRANSPORT AND TRAVEL

Trevor Coombs The Roman road from Silchester to Dorchester 114 2016 Jan BHEF 2014 Tom Fort The A303 110 Sept Twyford Tom Fort The A303 109 2014 Twyford Graham Horn Restoration of the Kennet and Avon canal 112 2015 Twyford 2013 Rick Jones The Kennet and Avon Canal 107 Sept Reading 2015 Paul Joyce Railways of Reading 113 Sept Reading Central Library Rupert 2014 Mattthews Lost railways of Berkshire 109 May Swallowfield Simon Wenham History of Salters Steamers 114 2016 Jan Reading Liz Woolley The coming of the railway to Oxford 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley