MLHS Programme for 2025-2026

WINTER 2025 TALKS PROGRAMME

Thursday 4 September 2025
AGM followed by “Tales from a Sussex farm – typical of farms anywhere after WW2”
by Angela Lerwell
 
Thursday 2 October 2025
 “Songs, readings and stories from the Winchcombe workhouse”
by Carol Davies (Sweets of May)
 
Thursday 6 November 2025
“Plane Sailing – the story of the undercover RAF Saul”
by Paul Barnett
 
Thursday 4 December 2025
“400 Christmases at the famous Lion hotel including the stagecoach through Gloucester”
by John Butterworth
 
Thursday 8 January 2026
“Battlefields, castles and riots in Glos over 2000 years”
by Tony Condor
 
Thursday 5 February 2026
“Cider making in Gloucestershire from foxwhelps to firkins”
by Andy Meller
 
Thursday 5 March 2026
“Charlie Wheatstone’s clever tricks – inventor of electric telegraph and concertina” 
by Stephen Rowley
 
Thursday 2 April 2026
“Historical glimpses of Gloucestershire and beyond to music and prose”
by Martin Fry


 
SUMMER 2026 PROGRAMME

To be determined

 
All talks will commence at 7.30pm in the Main Hall at the Village Hall – doors open at 7.00pm
All meetings will be open 30 minutes prior to commencement.
Membership – £12 – visitors always welcome (£3 per meeting)
Please ring Anne Nicholson for additional information on any of these events
01452 525333