A 'Brickhistory' Lego Exhibition is being held at Hereford Art Gallery and Museum between the 16th and 18th March:
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The Mortimer History Society will be holding the following events in February and March:   Longtown and District Historical Society have given us details of two talks they will be hosting over the next couple of months:
The medieval church in the Welsh border will be the subject of our next two talks. Ian Bass will speak on “Miracles in the Marches: St Thomas Cantilupe of Hereford” on Monday 4 February at 7.30pm in Longtown Village Hall. Cantilupe was Bishop of Hereford from 1275-1282. Many miracles were attributed to him and he was canonised in 1320. Mr Bass is completing a PhD in Manchester and he has written a number of articles on the church in Herefordshire. Cantilupe was also Provincial Grand Master of the Knights Templar, one of the subjects of Professor Helen Nicholson’s talk on 4 March. Membership now costs just £5, Guests £3 per meeting. Please contact [email protected] for details. The Beautiful Burial Ground Project Community Coordinator would like to pass on the following message about a workshop taking place on the 28th January:
The Beautiful Burial Ground project is working with the Herefordshire Archive Service to offer a FREE session to those interested in the stories told by burial grounds. On Monday 28th Jan 10- 12:30. The burial grounds of our communities tell us about changing fashions and traditions, immigration and of lives both long lived and tragically short. This session will cover an introduction to the archive as well as how to use the archive to investigate the lives and stories in your local burial ground. Thanks to the HLF Places are free of charge but must be booked please contact George, [email protected] or 01588 673041. To find out more about the Beautiful Burial Project take a look at our web pages https://www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/our-beautiful-burial-grounds-project/ Sutton Environment and History Group will be hosting a talk on the working life at the Rotherwas munitions factory. Details are below:  Herefordshire Archives will be marking their Diamond Anniversary with a Community Exhibition. Clink on the following here for more details.
There is an exhibition of Timber Frame Buildings of Herefordshire and the Borders at the Master's House in Ledbury between Tuesday 7th and Saturday 18th August.  The Hereford City Branch of Herefordshire Wildlife Trust for a walk upstream along the City’s Brooks and learn about its history, geography and wildlife.It will finish at Three Elms Industrial Estate around 9pm and ride back to the start in the Trust’s minibus.
Meet at Brookfield Vet Surgery, 1 Old Eign Hill, Hereford HR1 1TU at 6.30pm. Places are limited so you need to book online via the following link: http://www.herefordshirewt.org/events/2018/05/02/walk-hereford-city-brooks?instance=0 You may be interested to hear news from the Sutton Walls Conservation Group:
www.suttonwalls.co.uk/ www.facebook.com/SuttonWallsCG They hope to set up a Friends of Sutton Walls group later in the spring There are a number of events coming up to remember the Great War. Hereford Museum Support Group have kindly supplied posters giving details of all of these.       |
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