Fascinating evening, which I kicked off with
my visit to Hampshire, to Old Portsmouth and the SeaCity Museum in Southampton,
we discussed the Titanic story and the new evidence of the coal bunker fire which
may have cause weakness in the plates. Googling
this brings up so many conspiracy theories, I doubt the truth will ever be
found.
David has been in
contact with a member of a family in relation to a grave in the churchyard,
from this contact David now has some wonderful diaries to transcribe, notes about
the farm work and his lady friends, fascinating and a real insight in to rural
life of the day. We look forward to reading
David’s transcript.
George is still working on Nonconformist
Chapels. I have his latest research to
share with you via a Word document. He told us about the acts to stop
non-conformist preaching, the 5 mile
act which led to persecution and excommunication.
Jenny brought along
her family history research, which she had been working on for the last twenty
years and is now in book form with pull out pages showing the family trees. A
wonderful effort, and with Jenny’s wonderful way with words it is very
interesting.
Brenda told us more
of her work on the Parr Cottages, Joseph Chown renovated them, taking the thatch off in 1880. The Rashleigh
family were the owners, they had links to Cornwall and Charlestown. The full
research is being published in the Parish Magazine.
Alan kindly brought along the railway photos for
display at the Railway AGM in Nog Inn at 10:30 till mid afternoon on Sat 18th
March. People are welcome to drop in and see the display.
We have the talk on Church Screens in the
church on Thurs 20th April church at
7:30 pm
Following on from the
Boundary walk we all enjoyed last year, George has kindly offered to find a
route for us via Green Lane walking down towards the A30 and back towards the old village. This will be
on Rogation Sunday which falls on Sunday 21st May this year.
Robert Neal of OSM
Heritage has kindly invited the Group to
join them at 8:00 pm Tues 20th June to mark
the Beeching axe closing the Sidmouth Junction to Sidmouth Line. This
will be a showing of the BBC film 'The Train Now Departing'
Next meeting in the
Nog Inn 8pm on Thurs 6th April.
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