Trips Summer 2016

This year we are combining our outings with Belbroughton History Society. A good chance for the two societies to get together.

Visit to Coventry Transport Museum (newly refurbished) and to Coventry Cathedral with various guided tour options.  15th June. PLACES AVAILABLE.

Cost £25 per person includes coach,gratuities, tours and entrance fees.

Bring a picnic . . . → Read More: Trips Summer 2016

Trip Report – Rodmarton Manor (Aug 2015)

Our day trip to Rodmarton Manor August 2015

Once again we were lucky with dry weather and were able to enjoy our day unencumbered by coats or umbrellas.

We broke our journey to Rodamarton (which is between Cirencester and Tetbury) at Gloucester. We based ourselves at the historic docks which combines attractive retail outlets . . . → Read More: Trip Report – Rodmarton Manor (Aug 2015)

Hagley Hall – Landscape Developments

Our Guide Joe Hawkins with an old, old piece of stone

        

Our Guide Joe Hawkins with an old, old piece of stone

Joe Hawkins is a visionary academic, advocate of the eighteenth century landscape, combined with the huge physical capacity for rolling up his sleeves and getting the hard work done. We were lucky enough . . . → Read More: Hagley Hall – Landscape Developments

Summer Visits.

Our trips in May and June to Four Ashes Hall  and to Hagley Park are  fully booked. We are sorry to disappoint those who would like to have come along but numbers for both trips were limited. This is the second trip to Four Ashes arranged especially to give members who missed out on . . . → Read More: Summer Visits.

Programme 2015

March 26th             –    John Sparry – Interesting Events of 1937.

 

May 21st                  –       Joe Hawkins – Gardens and landscape of Hagley Hall.

* With guided tour  to follow in June. See Trips.

 

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Trip Report – Stanway House (August 2014)

We were so lucky with the weather for this day trip. Had we gone 24 hours later we would have been soaked. An umbrella-defying downpour in Clent coincided exactly with the time when we were rejoining the coach after a relaxed lunch stop in Stow on the Wold.

The weather gods must have recognised . . . → Read More: Trip Report – Stanway House (August 2014)

Tickets Available for trip to Stanway House, 13th August

On Wednesday 13 August 2014 members and friends of Clent History Society will be making a  visit To Stanway House, near Cheltenham.

The Stanway estate and manor house, has been owned by the Tracy family and their descendants, the Earls of Wemyss, for 500 years. The 13th Earl, who has lived at Stanway since . . . → Read More: Tickets Available for trip to Stanway House, 13th August

Trip Report – Four Ashes Hall (June 2014)

Four Ashes Hall

The society enjoyed a most enjoyable trip to Four Ashes Hall in June.

The property has been in the same family since it was built in 1660 and remains very much a family home.  Sebastian had had to clear his toys up from the the playroom for historic toys and childrens’ clothes to . . . → Read More: Trip Report – Four Ashes Hall (June 2014)

DIARY OF EVENTS FOR 2014

All meetings are held on Thursdays in Clent Parish Hall, Church Avenue Clent  Commencing at 8pm.

New members and visitors are welcome. Admission £2.50 per meeting.

 

Talks

Thursday 27 March 2014 –  ‘Beer, Bets and Bullbating’ Mary Bodfish

Thursday 26  June – ‘The Droitwich Canal  (The past brought to Life)’  Dr Malcolm Nixon

Thursday 25 . . . → Read More: DIARY OF EVENTS FOR 2014

Trip Report – Norgrove Court (August 2013)

Norgrove Court

Visit to Norgrove Court – August 2013

Once again we were fortunate to have a lovely summer day for our afternoon visit to this gem of a building.

Much of Norgrove Court dates from 1649 and it is strange to realise that a building of such importance should have been being constructed in . . . → Read More: Trip Report – Norgrove Court (August 2013)