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Buildings and Institutions 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 London 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 Mapledurham watermill 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley 2014 Mark Stevens History of Broadmoor Hospital 110 Sept Wargrave Cory Stirling Mapledurham House 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 Oxford 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 river Thames 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
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