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Members Day: “The Ancestor I would most like to meet” This is an opportunity for members to pick out an ancestor that for whatever reason they would like to meet. Was it a notable person, someone who was a rogue or even someone who went missing? All of our ancestors will have a story or […]
Apprenticeship Indentures and Assignments and three Overseers Account In this presentation we will hear about the conservation of Apprenticeship Indentures and Assignments and Overseers Account Books of Bromsgrove St Johns. This project was carried out in 2022 by Rhonda Niven, Book and Paper Conservator at the Hive as a result of funding provided by the […]
Speaker: John Frearson The story of four generations of a Leicestershire Family. Great-grandfather Ashton raised cattle in Leicestershire for the London market. He had 14 children – and three brothers married three sisters. This is the story of the struggles of one branch of the family that moved to Bedfordshire in the judgemental late 19th […]
'The Real 'Allo 'Allo' A talk by John Pittwood The Talk - The Real 'Allo 'Allo' This is a fascinating talk about the father of John, also called John. John had volunteered for the RAF and had became a Lancaster bomber navigator with 207 Squadron. On the 3rd/4th May 1944, John and the rest of […]
Robert Clive was born near Market Drayton in 1725 and has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company (EIC). Clive's actions on behalf of the EIC have made him one of Britain's most controversial colonial figures. His achievements included checking French imperialist ambitions on the Coromandel Coast and establishing […]
The Mourning Brooch Speaker: Jean Renwick Jean Renwick’s talk reveals years of research behind her family saga, The Mourning Brooch, based upon the lives of real Yorkshire people who lived in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. After inheriting a mourning brooch, Jean was intrigued to know who […]