Venue: ILEC Exhibition Centre, 47 Lillie Road, Earls Court, London, SW6 1UD
Time: 10AM-4:30PM Prebooked Tickets or now Cash on door
A new event for the organisers and therefore for Shropshire Family History Society, who will be having a stand at the event, with a team of volunteer helpers, computers and books. They will also be selling a selection of Local Interest Books and Maps, some Family History Books and our own CDs. We look forward to catching up with London & South-East members old and new.
Subject - "A Shropshire Squire: “Mad Jack” Mytton of Halston 1796-1834”
Speaker - David Thornycroft
Venue - The Old Chapel Community Centre, Cross Houses, Nr Shrewsbury SY5 6JH
Col (Retd) David Thornycroft OBE was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he took a History degree. He served for 34 years as an officer in The Black Watch. Now that he is retired, he combines those two interests by reading (a lot), and writing and lecturing (a little), mostly about military history.
Subject - "The Railway Navvies – Their Finest Hour – Building The Crimea Railway”
Using contemporary sources and illustrations we tell the story of how the efforts of two patriotic and well organised railway contractors and their navvies came to the rescue of the British Army bogged down in the Crimea, taking just three months to build a railway from the coast to Sevastopol in the Spring of 1855.
Speakers - Chris and Judy Rouse
Venue - The Old Chapel Community Centre, Cross Houses, Nr Shrewsbury SY5 6JH
Subject - "A History of Besford House, Shrewsbury"
An illustrated account of its changing role over time and of some of the people involved.
Speaker - Ian Cripps
Annual General Meeting
followed by
Subject - "For King & County” - (Yes, County!)
Speaker - Janet Doody
Venue - The Old Chapel Community Centre, Cross Houses, Nr Shrewsbury SY5 6JH
Subject - "A Ruddy Awful Waste"
Speaker - Mike Bradbury
Venue - The Old Chapel Community Centre, Cross Houses, Nr Shrewsbury SY5 6JH
This talk covers the short life of Flt Lt Eric Lock DSO DFC and Bar. Born Bayston Hill to a farming family, he went on to become Britain’s highest scoring Battle of Britain Pilot before being lost on active service.
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Subject - "The Life & Times of a British Soldier during the Anglo Boer War"
Speaker - Graham Bradbury
Venue - The Old Chapel Community Centre, Cross Houses, Nr Shrewsbury SY5 6JH
Subject - "A Meander Through Hawkstone Park, Past and Present"
Speaker - Roger West
Venue - The Old Chapel Community Centre, Cross Houses, Nr Shrewsbury SY5 6JH
A presentation of postcards and photographs of Hawkstone Park and the adjoining villages and occupants over a period of time.
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some of the town’s attractions, local history exhibition and book sales.
Venue: Sandown Park Racecourse, Portsmouth Road, Esher, KT10 9AJ
Time 10AM-4:30PM
This is a new event but is being organised by the same team as the Yorkshire Show that we have attended several times.
Shropshire Family History Society will be having a stand at the event, with a team of volunteer helpers, computers and books. They will also be selling a selection of Local Interest Books and Maps, some Family History Books and our own CDs.
