2018 Talks and Events –
these take place at Sheppard House, OnslowRd. Newent GL18 1TL at 7.30pm
January 11 – Social evening: An evening of traditional folk music and song by May Thrill with cheese, paté and wine supper (Newent All Seasons Deli)
February 8 – Changes in the Police Service since the 1970s by Dr. Timothy Brain
March 8 – AGM – followed by – The Daffodil Line – Gloucester to Ledbury by Martin Brown
April 12 – SS Great Britain by Ian Caskie
May 10 – Workhouses and the New Poor Law in the Forest of Dean by Cecile Hunt
June 14 – High Street Histories byPhilip Wilkinson
July 12 – Visit to SS Great Britain and the Bristol Docks
August 9 – Visit to Lacock Abbey, the Fox-Talbot Museum and the Village
September 13 – Anglo-Saxon Gloucestershire bySimon Draper
October 11 – 1914-18: Village Life during the Great War byRose Hewlett
November 8 – The Newent War Memorial project – “We will remember them” by Dood Pearce
December – no meeting