Events in 2022 - Freshford Parish Council

Freshford and District Local History Society

Meetings usually last about an hour and are held in the Freshford Village Memorial Hall on the fourth Wednesday of each month, September-November and January-May.

The hall is open from 7.00 pm and the talks start at 7.30 pm. Visitors are very welcome to come to meetings without advance notice.

The annual subscription is just £10, with visitors paying £3 to attend a meeting. All are welcome.

If you know of anyone who would like to become a member, please suggest they just turn up at the next meeting, contact Penny Jones on peter.pennyjones@gmail.com or phone 01225 723447 and leave a message if you have a query. Email Penny Jones if you are interested and would like to be kept informed but can’t get to meetings.

2022 Meeting Dates

Date	Subject	Speaker
26 January	History of Bath Botanic Gardens	Ann Brooks (Horticultural historian, researcher and author)
23 February	A History of Mells Manor and Church	Jenny Waller (Textile artist and historian)
23 March	Somerset and Wiltshire on Old Film	David Parker (retired Programme Creator for Channel 4 TV)
27 April	Bath-v-Lyme: Architecture in Austen’s Persuasion	Amy Frost (Senior Curator, Bath Preservation Trust)
25 May AGM & Alan Dodge Memorial Lecture	The Fishers. Significant families in our neighbourhood from the 17th to the early 19th centuries	John MacDonald (Chairman, Freshford & District Local History Society)
28 September	CANCELLED ~~Gold from the time of Stonehenge~~	CANCELLED David Dawson Curator, Devizes Museum
26 October	CANCELLED ~~Weaving Admiral Lord Nelson into the Fabric of Bath’s World Heritage Site~~	CANCELLED Professor Barry Gilbertson Bath UNESCO World Heritage Centre
26 October	Vernacular Architecture In Wiltshire	Dorothy Treasure
23 November	Bath v Lyme: Architecture in the time of Jane Austen’s Persuasion	Amy Frost Senior Curator, Bath Preservation Trust
	There is no meeting in December

Dates are subject to the Covid-19 rules that are in place at that point in time.

The details for each event can be viewed by clicking on the event entry in the table if the event is underlined.