PROGRAMME - 2019

12th January:      

AGM and Tea   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4th February:     

To celebrate the beginning of our seventh year -  Foundation Day  Lunch at  the Old Hall Sandbach ________________________________________________________________________________________

9th March:  

Events in the Fifteenth Century  ___________________________________________________________________________________________

13th April:  

The Brereton family ;  The Bleeding Wolf

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18th  May:    

A Walk to the Paradise Garden - Overview of Monastic Horticulture

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8th June:    

Border Reevers

dtba Visit to Carlisle

dtba Visit to Summer Watch/Giants Parade

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Dtba July:  

Talk by Tim Stratford on the Liturgy for Richard's reburial in Leicester.

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Dtba July/ August:

Visits chosen from Speke Hall, little Moreton Hall, Gawsworth Hall, Elford, Clifton Campville and Shrewsbury.

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9th September:

Visit to Abbots Bromley horn dance

21st September:

Discussion of Battle of Blore Heath -  560th Anniversary

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12th October: 

Purgatory, Lollard beliefs and Wills

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 9th November:

Staffordshire Gentry's involvement in the Gunpowder Plot

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 7th December :

Christmas theme, festivities and traditions.

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