What’s on in Worcestershire A month-by-month guide to member societies’ events 2019/2020 Please contact Ruth Casemore with your future calendar details or if any information given is incorrect 01905 757329 - [email protected] What’s on in Worcestershire is downloadable from the website – www.wlhf.org.uk If you are interested in any of the talks/speakers/societies, contact the Programme Secretary of the Society concerned, details are at the end of this guide. Please view Member Societies’ websites for full details of their activities. -----------September 2019----------- 2nd AHS A History of Sugar and the Kidderminster Factory Robert Barber 3rd HH&FS The Great Fire of Warwick Gillian White 4th MFHS Travel before the Railways Celia Heritage 4th DHAS The Norton Collection Museum Denis Norton 7th AHS Open Days - 2.30-4.30 - St Laurence Church Stained Glass Windows 9th WCHS Metal detecting finds Mark Hannon (Fieldings Auctioneers) 9th RLHS A walk around Eastern Redditch using a 1903 OS Map Anthony Green 10th FFHS The Mayflower voyages and local connections - WEBHEATH Discover History 11th A&DLHS Embroidered with Woodbine & Eglantine" Elizabethan Textile Furnishings Gillian White 13th WIA&LHS Great Exhibitions: Commerce, the arts and the Empire from 1851-to the present-day Mike Jackson 13th MCS The Worcester Story Discover History 14th AHS Open Days - 2.30-4.30 - St Laurence Church Stained Glass Windows 15th RLHS Heritage Day at Forge Mill Museum 11.00 – 4.00 - Entrance is free 16th C&BHS North Worcestershire Water Mills Julian Hunt 16th BrHS On the Way to London: old routes across the North Cotswolds and Vale of Evesham David Ella 17th LHLHS AGM followed by Lord Austin of Longbridge Max Hunt 18th WLHG Crossings of the River Severn Heather Flack 19th MA/s Guided Tour of Wolverhampton Archives and a talk - £5 – 10.15am Penny Smith 19th CHS Clent Village – a brief look back (Part II) Paul Timmins 19th HHS A Gallery of Pub Signs Ian Bott 21st/22nd LHLHS Free Open Weekend at the Visitor Centre, Warren Lane, Lickey: 11am – 4pm – see what the Society is doing 24th WFHRG Wartime Worcestershire Discover History 24th TVHS Iron Maidens: female conscription in WW2 Ron Gallivan 24th RHHS Edmund Lay – wartime memories Family of Edmund Lay 26th VEHS Of sons and skies (WW2 aerial warfare) Robert Arley 27th WyHS Murder of Mary Ashfield followed by AGM Barrie Stokes -----------October 2019----------- 1st HH&FS Short AGM followed by Prince Rupert of the Rhine: Charles 1’s prince pirate Max Keen 2nd MFHS King John Max Keen 2nd DHAS Early Industries of Kidderminster Robert Barber 3rd PHHS Victorian Worcestershire Discover History 7th AHS Austin Military Vehicles Neil Wedgbury 8th FFHS History of Croome Park - FECKENHAM Joe Turney 9th A&DLHS Horatio Nelson: Britain's Greatest Naval Hero Max Keen 11th WIA&LHS Made in Oldbury Terry Daniels 11th MCS Remembering Powick Hospital Ken Crump 14th WCHS Darling Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Mary Bodfish 14th RLHS Bordesley Abbey Don Vincent 15th MA/s Getting rid of the stink Mike Haynes 15th LHLHS Life and legacy of Eliza Tinsley, Black Country nail mistress: 1818-1882, industrial legend Rebecca Wilton 16th WLHG Light Fantastic – 1,000 years of stained-glass Keith Cattell 17th CHS William Shenstone at the Leasowes Julian Hunt 17th HHS King Charles I: my ancestors’ part in his restoration (the Pendrill Brothers of Boscobel House) Roger Pendrill 21st BrHS Sir Thomas Phillipps and Middle Hill Gerard Molyneux 21st C&BHS Memories of the Midland Red Martin Hobson 22nd WFHRG The National Memorial Arboretum – Landscape Speaker from NMA 22nd RHHS A History of Stourbridge Glass Kate Round 25th WyHS Great British Curiosities Colin Harris 29th TVHS Ley Lines in Worcestershire Andrew Poulton-Smith 31st VEHS From Edburga to Elvis: unusual saints and their churches Richard Churchley 31st Oct-24th Nov RLHS Exhibition: Redditch Memories – Forge Mill National Needle Museum. See RLHS/Forge Mill website for details -----------November 2019----------- 4th AHS Redditch History Walk – East section Anthony Green 5th HH&FS The Earl of Dudley’s Railway Ned Williams 6th DHAS Remembering Nelly Paul Jones 6th MFHS Members Evening 7th PHHS Famous Masons and their footprints Bob James 8th WIA&LHS English Enclosures: 18thC and 19thC agricultural enclosure practices across the Midlands Richard Churchley 11th WCHS Edward I Max Keen 11th RLHS Paolozzi Mosaics Philip Roberts 12hth FFHS The rise and fall of Belbroughton scythe-making industry: WEBHEATH Sarah Bradley 13th A&DLHS To be arranged 18th BrHS 1941 HMS Broadway and the Capture of the German Naval Enigma Machine Doug Eyre 18th C&BHS History of Sugar and the Kidderminster Factory 19th MA/s How I record my family tree and Christmas refreshments Members 19th LHLHS Sentenced to beyond the seas, eight Worcester women deported for their crimes David Clarke 20th WLHG A Brief History of Hallow Park – its owners and occupiers Jacquie Hartwright 21st HHS The History of Defford Airfield Dennis Williams 26th WFHRG Hanbury Hall Derek Clarke 26th TVHS Market Towns Richard Churchley 26th RHHS An Amble around Gloucestershire John Billingham 28th VEHS A Land Army life: memories of service in the Women’s Land Army during WW2 Robin Hill 29th WyHS WW2 Wartime Christmas Ronald Gallivan -----------December 2019----------- 2nd AHS Sir Francis Drake: England’s Greatest Naval Hero Max Keen 3rd HH&FS Christmas songs through the ages: from Boar’s head to Bing Richard Churchley 4th MFHS The Swingin’ 60s Mike Watkins 4th DHAS Magic Lantern Slides Justin Hughes 5th PHHS Christmases Past and Christmas Social 9th BrHS Hailes Abbey and Mystery of the Holy Blood David Haldred 10th WFHRG Christmas Social with the Grace Notes - King Charles Room, First Floor, Kidderminster Town Hall from 2pm - 4pm - Members only 10th TVHS Spinning Yarns Heather Wastie 10th FFHS A merrie yule: FECKENHAM A Merrie Noyse 11th A&DLHS More Constabulary Tales Alan Benjamin 12th VEHS A Victorian Christmas From Time to Time 13th WIA&LHS Ironbridge Gorge: then and now Richard Bifield 16th RLHS Christmas Social – Special Event 16th C&BHS Christmas Social 17th LHLHS Ooh! I remember that …. reminiscences of Redditch with mince pies and punch Geoff Hawkesworth 18th WLHG Ghosts – local legends and stories Heather Rendall 19th HHS The King of the Pirates: restoring Charles II to the throne Carole Clements -----------January 2020----------- 8th MFHS Bletchley Park people Bob Skelt 8th DHAS Richard III – the legend, the history and the bones Carol Southworth 10th WIA&LHS Narrow Gauge Railways David Morgan 13th WCHS Hanbury Hall: garden restoration Neil Cook 14th FFHS Exploring the history of St Nicholas’ Church, Alcester: WEBHEATH Richard Osborne 15th WLHG Worcester in 50 Buildings James Dinn 16th HHS WWI in Pictures: a selection of digitised glass slides from HHS archive David Simons 20th BrHS Russell House – its people and history Malcolm Rogers 20th C&BHS Anglo-Zulu War 1879 Max Keen 21st LHLHS The Lightwoods: the park, house and the military hospital, Bearwood next to Smethwick Mary Bodfish 25th MA/s AGM followed by The life and times of Buffalo Bill Cody - 2.30pm Neil Brazier 28th WFHRG The Coming of the Railway to the Midlands Terry Daniels 30th VEHS King John: the worst king but the greatest legacy? Max Keen 31th WyHS Kinwarton: history of a pint pot parish Alan Godfrey -----------February 2020----------- 5th MFHS Going up country: trade on the River Severn Tony Conder 5th DHAS Railways of Upton-on-Severn Philip Jarvis 6th PHHS Richard III, murderer, loyal brother or England’s greatest king? Max Keen 10th WCHS History of Genealogy Mike Sharpe 11th FFHS Hereward the Wake: the last true Englishman?: FECKENHAM Max Keen 14th WIA&LHS Tewkesbury Railway: conveying coal, ores, chemicals, armaments and workers Ian Boskett 17th BrHS A Builder in Broadway, Charles Edmund Steward Mary and Nigel Smith 17th C&BHS Back-to-Back Houses Derek Clarke 18th LHLHS Prince Rupert of the Rhine, King Charles I’s pirate prince Max Keen 19th WLHG Re-mapping Wichenford – the medieval planning that extended the village Heather Rendall 20th HHS Shelsley Walsh: the history of a village Max Hunt 25th WFHRG Alfred the Great – a king who rode good fortune? Max Keen 25th RHHS Tyntesfield Derek Clarke 27th VEHS Pershore Deborah Overton 28th WyHS Off to the workhouse Richard Churchley 29th MA/s Catching up with family search – 2.30pm Sharon Hintze -----------March 2020----------- 4th MFHS Sentenced to beyond the seas David Clarke 4th DHAS Building Medieval Cathedrals Keith Cattell 5 PHHS AGM followed by The Real ‘Silent Witness’ Helen Whitwell 9th WCHS Managing parks for people and wildlife Edward Andrews 10th FFHS Staffordshire Churches: WEBHEATH Tim Bridges 13th WIA&LHS 50 Worcester Buildings James Dinn 16th BrHS Broadway’s National Schools: its day-to-day running, a first-hand account from Isaac Averill Elizabeth Eyre 16th C&BHS Worcestershire Worthies Anthony Collis 17th LHLHS How radar came to Malvern David Whitaker 18th WLHG The Baldwins of Worcestershire Geoff Shaw 19th HHS History of Dudley Castle 1071-1932 Max Keen 24th WFHRG History of the Acme Whistle Simon Topham 24th RHHS The English Civil War in the areas around Dudley and Halesowen Margaret Bradley 26th VEHS Canal history and heritage Roger Butler 27th WyHS Chadwick Manor George Gascoyne 28th MA/s A yeoman trooper with Laurence of Arabia – 2.30pm Janet Byard-Jones -----------April 2020----------- 1st MFHS Phrenology Louise Robinson 1st DHAS 31 High Street, Droitwich – an architectural gem Lyn Blewitt 10th WIA&LHS