Every Friday 2-4 pm & Sat 10-2, 'Shifnal Local History Group welcomes you to their exhibition in the Fire Station, Shrewsbury Road, Shifnal

Do you need help with local or family history? Drop in to the Community History Centre at Wellington Library every Wed 2-4:30pm & Fri 10:30 - 1pm

March 2013

27

Dr Matt Thompson, Picturing the West - The imaginative geography of the Great Western Railway  - FIGMT

April 2013

1

Patsie Jarman, The Tradescants: England's 17th Century master gardeners - ADHS

3

Shane Kelleher, Local Industrial Archaeology - BLHS

3

WCS meeting.

10

AGM & talk from Group – KHG 8:00 pm

10

Ken Ballantyne, Wellington and WWII – WHG

11

AGM & Alan Lewis, The Legacy of the Royal Oak – WrHG

15

Speaker to be advised - NDHS

16

Mike Shaw, Mining and its landlords - SFHS

20

Ken Jones Day, 10-4pm Long Warehouse Coalbrookdale - FIGM SAHS & FSA

24

Ancestry.com taster sessions, Madeley Library 10:30 - 12noon – Telephone 382950 to book a place - TWLS

24

Joanna Layton, The Ditherington Flax Mill – FIGMT

27

Friends Annual Challenge Quiz - FIGMT

27

Photos of Old Madeley, 2 to 5 pm Madeley House - Madeley History Group

May 2013

1

Peter Platt, Leighton Model Farm - BLHS

1

WCS meeting.

2

Ian Bapty, The Archaeology and Conservation of Offa's Dyke  - WrHG

6

Paul Collins, Black Country Trams - ADHS

8

Geoff Harrison, Worship on the Weald - WHG

8

Fred Bailey, Ketley Hall research updates – KHG

11

Jo Roche, Visit to Abberley Hall & clock tower – SAHS 2:30 pm

20

David Adams, "Pitchcroft Excavation - NDHS

21

Richard Ratcliffe, What's in the Parish Chest - SFHS

22

Prof Peter Sheldon, William Withering MD - FIGM

24

Ancestry.com taster sessions, Wellington Library 2:30 to 4pm – Telephone 382990 to book a place - TWLS

June 2013

1

Shropshire F.H.S. Open Day & Fair. 10:00 The Shirehall, Shrewsbury, Michael Gandy, Name Lists for the 17^th & 18^th Century; Geoff Swinfield, Genealogy and Genetics - Shropshire Family History Society. Contact 01694 722949

5

Barbeque and Walk, Wrockwardine Wood - BLHS

5

WCS meeting.

5

Maggie Evans, Guided walk round Ketley – KHG

6

Ancestry.com taster sessions, Newport Library 10:30 - 12noon – Telephone 382965 to book a place - TWLS

  8

Visit to Alveley Country Park – SAHS  2:30 pm Visitor Centre

12

Allan Frost, Travel by Stagecoach - WHG

13

AGM & Shropshire Archives 2013 Update - FSA

17

Ancestry.com taster sessions, Madeley Library 10:30 - 12noon – Telephone 382950 to book a place - TWLS

18

Martin Davis, Diary of a Shropshire Farmer in the 19th Century - SFHS

23

Afternoon visit to Wightwick Manor -  FIGM.  2:30 pm

26

AGM & talk - FIGM

29

Fred Brian, walk along Coalbrookdale Watercourses - FIGM 2pm

July 2013

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3

WCS meeting.

3

KHG research updates – KHG 7:30 pm

6

Summer Outing to Stoke on Trent area - BLHS (tel 883960)

11

Ian Bapty, Supporting Industrial Heritage Nationally - FIGM

13 to 28  

CBA Festival of British Archaeology - SAHS

17

Ancestry taster at Madeley Library  10:30 – 12 . Telephone 382950 to book a place - TWLS

August 2013

10

 Visit to Hereford, meet at 2:00 pm outside cathedral – SAHS