“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”
Alan Bennett's view on History
Visit to Carpet Museum, Kidderminster
Harvington Hall
Steam Museum In July 2024 the History group visited the museum of the Great Western Railway which is housed in a beautifully restored building in the heart of the former Swindon raiiway works. The museum tells the story of the men and women who built, operated and travelled on the Great Western Raiiway, often referred to by historians and raiiway fans as "God's Wonderful Railway". Isambard Kingdom Brunel's railway network was regarded as the most advanced in the worid.
The Weald and Downland Living Museum, near Chichester
Christine Armstrong’s talk is a homage to the Spitfire, the Hurricane and to the bravery of the British people during that perilous time known as the Battle of Britain. The […]
If asked, off the cuff, to unravel the meaning of the many unusual and vibrant phrases that adorn the English language, most of us wouldn’t have a cat in hell’s […]
Welsh mining disasters, particularly the Aberfan disaster, is central to a novel written by Jimmy Stokes, who will give this presentation. Out of this tragedy emerges a fictional survivor […]
Early in the second World War, the Nazis hired a spy operating in Britain who, together with a network of agents, was able to provide the German military with useful […]
Major General Sir Edmund Keynton Williams KCB, KGS Colonel of 80th regiment of Foot was born locally and died locally. He was Commanding Officer of the 41st Welch Regiment of […]
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is dedicated to ensuring that the 1.7 million Commonwealth servicemen and women who died in the two World Wars are never forgotten. In this […]
