Programme 2025/26

If you require transport telephone 07771953139.

Programmes available on request.

Admission £3 per meeting

Wednesday 10th September 2025 (7.30 pm)

William James, Father of Railways

Roger Butler

Wednesday 8th October 2025(7.30pm)

Postman’s Knock, Postal Service in Warwickshire

Alan Godfrey

Wednesday 12th November 2025 (7.30pm)

Deception & Subterfuge in War Time

David Morse

Wednesday 10th December 2025 (7.30pm)

A Century of Boat Women/Seasonal Refreshments

Alarum Productions

Wednesday 14th January 2026 (7.30pm)

Marton Museum Museum

David Fry

Wednesday 11th February 2026 (7.30pm)

A History of Radford Semele in Pictures

Antony Hitchcox

Wednesday 11th March 2026 (7.30pm)

Sir Frank Whittle

Midland Air Museum

Wednesday 8th April 2025 (7.30pm)

AGM followed by Some History & Music of Morris Dancing

Alan Benjamin

Wednesday 13th May 2025

Visit

Details to be announced


Past Events

  • History of Kaye and Nelson Cement Works
  • Plague Pestilence and Pox
  • Stories behind Long Itchington War Memorial
  • Long Itchington Houses
  • Riot and Revolution
  • A Trip Down The River Avon c1900
  • Stand and Deliver – Notorious Highwaymen
  • Ladbroke Village Walk
  • Midland Murders – Infamous Cases from the Midlands
  • Why Medieval Coventry could not survive into the 20th Century
  • Early Photographs of Rugby and Surrounding Villages c1900
  • Bells and Bell Ringing
  • Upton House
  • Canals – a 1960’s tour of the Grand Union
  • A Pint of Ale – stories behind Southams’ Public Houses
  • Guided Tour – the stories behind Southams Public Houses
  • Ridge and Furrow
  • Thornley
  • Victorian & Edwardian Photographs in Warwickshire
  • Drovers Roads
  • The River Avon from its source
  • Bandages and Fesh Air: The Story of the Grange V.A.D Hospital
  • Dear Mother: Humour & Sentiment in WW1
  • Memorial & Memories
  • Development of the Police and Law Enforcement
  • Life under the Romans
  • Dr. Smorfitt’s Medical Bag
  • The River Severn Story
  • Southam Bobbies – 100 Years of Southam Police
  • St. Mary’s Church, Warwick
  • Coventry in WW1
  • Agricultural Migration (From This Ground)
  • 3d Slides of Leamington Spa
  • Railways Around Rugby
  • “Finds” in Long Itchington – Warwick Metal Detecting Club
  • “Back Tracks” Detecting the Past
  • Guided Walk around Kineton.
  • Southam Ear and Eye Hospital
  • Warwickshire Home Guard
  • Experiences of a Local Conservation Structural Engineer
  • 2000 Years of British Coinage
  • All Roads Lead to Rome
  • Tour of Harbury and visit to Harbury Heritage Centre
  • If Warwick walls could talk
  • Coventry Cathedral’s Windows and Broken Angel Project
  • Robert Dudley’s Warwickshire
  • Christmas Songs through the Ages
  • Many Cultures/One Town(Leamington Spa)
  • Hidden Depths, Canal Industry
  • Leamington Sky Garden
  • Sheep that eat men, Washington & the wool trade
  • Visit to Stockton