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Berkshire Family History Society
29/01/24
THE Reading branch of the Berkshire Family History Society met via Zoom on yesterday with a presentation about the notorious Henry Smith by Sue Paul. Smith (1668-1710) worked for the East India Company and was sacked on a number of occasions for ...
11/09/23
AFTER our two outings, one to the Berkshire Downs and the other to Dorchester, we took a break for August. We’re looking forward to meeting up again for our autumn lectures, which will be at Goring Heath parish hall on Thursdays at 7.30pm ...
British Modern Military History Society
23/01/23
THE British Modern Military History Society would like to thank all our supporters who have attended our monthly meetings at Woodcote village hall and Zoom talks. The programme of monthly Zoom talks for 2023 is being finalised. However, ...
Whitchurch & Goring Heath History Society
12/12/22
THE first meeting of Whitchurch & Goring Heath History Society in 2023 will be on Thursday, January 19 at Whitchurch village hall, starting at 7.30pm (coffee served from 7pm). Contributions from members will explore, among others, ...
24/06/24
THE Reading branch of Berkshire Family History Society will meet at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 280 Meadway, Tilehurst RG30 4PE on Thursday, June 27 at 7.45pm (doors open at 7.15pm). Laurie Page will give a ...
06/05/24
KATHY Quinlan-Flatter will give a talk, via Zoom, entitled “Forbidden art of the Third Reich” at a meeting of the British Modern Military History Society on Tuesday, May 7 at 7.30pm. She will deal with the attitudes prevailing ...
Ten years ago...
06/02/23
THE family of a mother-of-two who died suddenly have paid tributes to her. Claire Armitage, 27, was found dead at her home in Farleigh Mews, Caversham Park Village, by her mother. Police have said they are not treating her ...
Twenty-five years ago...
ANGRY students from The Henley College are protesting that their courses are likely to be cut next year in a bid to save money. They learnt this week that vocational courses in beauty therapy, hairdressing and motor ...
Fifty years ago...
MORE than twice as many people have been convicted this year for drink-driving offences than last year in the Henley area, magistrates heard on Tuesday. Eighteen men and four women were convicted, compared with ...
13/02/23
A WOMAN is horrified after one of her rare breed pregnant ewes was killed. Tracy Betteridge found Coco, a Welsh Badger Face, who was five weeks away from giving birth to twins, bleeding to death in a field in ...
Twenty five years ago...
HENLEY councillors are to press ahead with making the town centre a car-free zone, despite the Government’s refusal to foot the bill. The town council is to apply to Oxfordshire County Council for agency ...
HENLEY’S MP Mr John Hay defended the Government’s methods of dealing with inflation in a long speech to local Conservatives on Friday. Politics, he said, was the art of the possible, not the impossible, ...
History of Reading Society
THE History of Reading Society is continuing its online meetings. At 7.30pm on Wednesday, February 15, Kaye Gough and Jenny Knight will give a talk via Zoom. Both speakers are volunteers at the Museum ...
THE Whitchurch & Goring Heath History Society’s annual meeting will be held at Whitchurch village hall on Thursday, February 16 at 7.30pm. After the business, there will be a “mystery” presentation ...
10 Years Ago
06/03/23
WHEN boy band One Direction turned up at the Fawley Hill estate for a photoshoot, the lady of the house could only ask, “Which direction?” Lady McAlpine, who lives in the 25-acre estate with her ...
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