The new programme of talks for Edwinstowe Historical Society starts on Wednesday 18th September with speaker Adam Nightingale presenting his talk ‘English Civil War’.
At future meetings members will hear about a survivor of the sinking of the SS Titanic; the Pilgrim Fathers; Worksop, Witches and an American Legacy; Mary Queen of Scots; Thoresby Hall and Park; culminating with a guided tour of St Mary’s Church, Edwinstowe.
The Society’s current display in the Sherwood Forest Art and Craft Centre relates to various types of transport that has helped to serve Edwinstowe in the past, whether it was horsepower, steam or mechanisation.
A recent display produced by a committee member served as a reminder of Edwinstowe’s literary connections: Cecil Day Lewis, Poet Laureate, 1967, whose father was the vicar in Edwinstowe, and under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake wrote detective stories; Dr E Cobham Brewer who lived with his daughter and son-in-law the vicar of St Mary’s Church, and whose labour of love was the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable; Geoffrey Palmer, who wove Sherwood Forest into his books for children; Frederick Kitchen, farm labourer who wrote about work on the land during the first half of the 20th century; and Elizabeth Sarah Villa Real Gooch who lived at Villa Real farm and led an extremely dramatic life and wrote novels and poetry.
Additional information about these personalities is available at www.edwinstowehistory.org.uk.
Meetings are held in the Church Rooms, Mansfield Road, Edwinstowe NG21 9NJ on the third Wednesday of the month, starting at 2.00pm and lasting for approximately two hours. Tea, coffee and biscuits are available.
The annual subscription is £15.00, and visitors are welcome at a charge of £3.00. For more information visit www.edwinstowehistory.org.uk or contact EdwinstoweHistorySoc@gmail.com.