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Non-members are welcome to attend our evening meetings. Advantages of and how to become a member
We usually meet at St Laurence Church Hall (use the door facing the church), in The Shambles, Stroud. Nearest car park is Church Street
Meetings & visits must be pre-booked
For visits, we meet at the destination. Contact us if you need a lift and we will try to help.
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| Thursday October 17th 2024 – St Laurence Church Hall | Woodchester Convent and Roman Pavement on rare film and photos | |
| Doors open 7pm – rolling slide-show of mosaic close-up photos to 7.30pm | The Convent of Poor Clares: a filmed tour of the convent – indoors and out. The Poor Clares were an enclosed order in Woodchester since 1860. They ran an orphanage; a laundry; and on-site workshops making clothes for wholesalers including Holloways – employing local women for many years. The surviving five sisters moved to a Poor Clares community in Arundel in 2011. | |
| £4 non-members – pay cash on the day but limited seating so booking is essential by email: bookings@stroudlocalhistorysociety.org.uk | The Orpheus mosaic: film and still photographs of the last time the Roman pavement was uncovered in 1973. Special buses were put on for visitors to see the mosaic. The Woodward brothers – local builders – later made a full-size replica. | |
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| Thursday November 14th 2024 – St Laurence Church Hall; 7pm for 7.30 | AGM followed by “Fred Major – a Bisley Photographer” by Howard Beard | |
| £4 non-members – pay cash on the day but limited seating so booking is essential by email: bookings@stroudlocalhistorysociety.org.uk | Frederick Major was one of two Edwardian photographers based in Bisley. His patch was mainly the village itself and surrounding parishes plus Stroud. He was active up until at least the end of World War One. Especially notable was his excellent coverage of the Great Snow of 1916. | |
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| Sunday December 8th 2024; 2pm for 2.30 | “Ripping Yarns & Wizard Wheezes – The golden age of British comics 1950-75” by John Reid | |
| only advertised to members | ||
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| Sunday February 9th 2025; 2pm for 2.30 | Members afternoon tea party | |
| only advertised to members | ||
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| Thursday March 13th 2025 St Laurence Church Hall; 7pm for 7.30 | Child labour in the woollen mills in 1830s by Jill Shankleman | |
| £4 non-members – pay cash on the day but limited seating so booking is essential by email: bookings@stroudlocalhistorysociety.org.uk | ||
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| Thursday April 10th 2025 St Laurence Church Hall; 7pm for 7.30 | Funeral trains by Nicolas Wheatley | |
| £4 non-members – pay cash on the day but limited seating so booking is essential by email: bookings@stroudlocalhistorysociety.org.uk | ||
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