SULGRAVE HISTORY SOCIETY
OPEN SPEAKER MEETINGS, LOCAL ORAL HISTORY EVENINGS AND VISITS 1988 – 2004
TOPICS
Setting up a Local History Museum: Pat Diamond, Director Stacey Hill Museum
The Great Central Railway: Steve Banks
Canons Ashby and the National Trust: Louis Richardson
Inland Waterways of Northamptonshire: George Freestone
Behind the Scenes Sulgrave 1770 Living History: David Edge
Oral History Evenings: Bill Henn/Alf Kimble
Lewis Wootton/Sid Wootton
Behind the Scenes Sulgrave 1648 Living History: David Edge
The Excavations of Sulgrave Castle: Brian Davison
Visit to Stacey Hill Museum: Guide, Pam Diamond
Behind the Scenes Sulgrave 1771 Living History: David Edge
History of Stuchbury: Peggy Fonge
Oral History Evening: Emma Cave and Charlie Dore
Aspects of Local History: Julia Nicholson, Curator of Banbury Museum
Visit to Canons Ashby: Guide Louis Richardson
Historic Banbury: Brian Little
Oral History Evening, Farming Memories: Les Fonge, Roger Cherry, Dennis Gascoigne
Canals: Director of Stoke Bruerne: Sid Wootton, Frank Somerton, Len Branson
Tour of Stuchbury: Peggy Fonge
The Sulgrave Mummers Play: Marion Jones
Oral History Evening: School Days in Sulgrave
Northamptonshire Rural Life: Dennis Judd
History of Hook Norton Brewery
Oral History Evening: Sports and Pastimes in Sulgrave
“Like Dew Before the Sun” – Life and Language in Northamptonshire: Dorothy Grimes
Tour of Historic Banbury: Brian Little
“Lifting the Latch” and “Rambling Rose”: Sheila Stewart
The Mary Rose Story: Bob Foster
Momentous Occasions and Special Happenings in Sulgrave
Illustrating the Civil War: Steven Beck
Industrial Archaeology of the Sulgrave Area: Geoffrey Starmer
Visit to the Mary Rose
“Make Haste Home”: Civil War Play by New Perspectives
Weston Hall and the Sitwells: Francis Sitwell
Shoemaking in Northamptonshire: June Swan MBE
Sufis and Sulgrave
Visit to Weston Hall: Francis Sitwell
Don Quixote in Church Hall
Moulton Mummers on Mumming
History of Bronnleys; John Sheppard
The Jurassic Way: Andy Johnson
The Romantic Journey: Julia Taylor
Visit to Broughton Castle: Lord and Lady Saye and Sele
Thorpe Mandeville: Maurice Cole
Church Wall Paintings: Janice Harper
Play “Before the Shires” John Clare, in Church Hall
Historic Hedgerows: Alan Spicer
Fawsley Walk and Dower House
Aspects of Helmdon: Audrey Horwood and Jean Spenlove
Play “The Tiffield Thunderbolt” in Church Hall
Cropredy: Frank Smallpage, Old films and slides
Towcester from Roman Time to Present Day: Vivienne Baker
The History of the Green Man: Peter Hill
Visit to Aynho House with tea in the gardens
A Village in Wartime: RAF Chipping Warden: Air Commodore Dennis Reader
Windmills of Northamptonshire: Trevor Stainwright
Memories of Pre-War Banbury: John Cheney
Northamptonshire and the Gunpowder Plot: Douglas Ashby
Buildings of Northamptonshire: John Brushe
Visit to Edgehill and Radway Grange
Sulgrave in Brick and Stone: George Metcalfe
The Banbury Dig (Banbury Castle): Steve Litterland
Northamptonshire in 1930s: Archive Film
Visit to Wroxton Abbey and Village
The Sulgrave Manor Finds: Rhiannon Harte, County Finds Officer
The Mound Project, Presentation in Church Hall to Village
Banbury: Brian Little
History of Fawsley Hall and the Knightley Family: Colin Eaton
Flora Thompson and “Lark Rise to Candleford”: Christine Bloxham
Visit and walk round Lark Rise (Juniper Hill) Country
Oral History Project: Rachael Watson, County Records Officer
Planning and Funding Local History Projects: Mary Owen, LHI
Parish Churches, Early and Medieval: George Metcalfe (2 parts)
“The Tyrells of Eydon”: Kevin Lodge
The New Banbury Museum: Simon Townsen, Curator
Nether Heyford Roman Villa: Steven Young
Hidden Gems of Norton: Dr. Terry Waterfield
Visit to Tooley Historic Boatyard in Banbury
Battlefield Walk, Edgecote 1469
Conducted Tour of Hook Norton Brewery
The English Civil War: Richard Parker
Early Postal Services in Northamptonshire: Derek Smeathers
The History of Fotheringhay and its Royal Connections: Juliet Wilson.