Hereford Civic Society

 

Meeting Programme September 2023 to August 2024

​2023

Thursday 21st September 2023
Tim Hoverd (Herefordshire Council Archaeological Projects Manager)"Snodhill Castle: Herefordshire's Lost Castle"
Following recent excavations and investigation into the castle's history
 

Thursday 19th October 2023

Clare Wichbold. “The History of The Courtyard, Hereford” which this year is celebrating its 25th Anniversary.

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Thursday 16th November 2023
Bill Jackson "Rotherwas Nature Park and Heritage Trail" 
A project which will link Hereford, both south and north of the Wye, to a parkland setting in Rotherwas; approximately 128 acres of floodplain, wetlands, rewilding and heritage.   

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Thursday 14th December 2023

Elizabeth Pimblett (Director of Hereford Cider Museum) “The Home of Cider – how history led Hereford to having the nation’s Museum of Cider”  
 

2024

Thursday January 18th                   

Dr David Marshall (Associate the Brightspace Foundation)   “Apples and People”

The global story of the apple, illustrated with art from collections around the world

 

Thursday February 15th    

Malcolm Penny “Six Hundred Years a Family Home"

A talk about Brockhampton Manor House and Moat

Malcolm Penny is a retired writer and volunteer at Brockhampton Manor who continues to research the history of Brockhampton

 

Thursday March 21st   

Elizabeth Sempler-O’Keefe (Hereford Cathedral Archivist)  "900 Years of History of Hereford May Fair"

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Monday March 25th    

Visit to Brampton Bryan Hall (by kind invitation of Victoria and Edward Harley, Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire) £25pp.   Coach leaves Merton Meadow at 1pm.  Return 6pm.  FULLY BOOKED

 

Thursday April 18th     

Philip Hume and Kirsten Lawton- Smith (Mortimer Society)

“The Kings Writ Does Not Run Here:The Welsh Marcher Lordships”

The medieval Marcher Lordships were a region between England and Wales that, politically and administratively, didn't belong fully to either. Within each of the 50 lordships, the Marcher Lord had unique regal-like powers with their own laws, judicial powers, and access to resources and armies. This talk explores the origins and development of the Marcher Lordships in the context of the 200-year struggle for control of Wales, with particular reference to the importance of Hereford and the Marcher Lordships of western Herefordshire.

 

Thursday May 16th     

Angela Williams “Munitionette’s View” 

The dangers, the dramas & the day-to-day routine at Rotherwas during WW1 & WW2 

 

Wednesday June 12th

Visit to Cardiff organised by Hereford Guild of Guides

2 hour guided tour + free time. Coach leaves Hereford at 8.30am, arriving back at 6pm. £25. For more information/ reserve a place, contact Laura Sommerville email: lasommerville@yahoo.co.uk

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Thursday June 20th              

Merry Albright, Creative Director Boarder Oak   

“The River Wye  - how ecological collapse caused a housing crisis”

 

Tuesday June 25th  

Doors open at 7.30pm.  8.00pm – 9.30pm.  Main Hall, Kindle Centre  

“General Election Hustings, Hereford & South Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency” to which all six candidates on the ballot paper have been invited

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Tuesday July 16th        “Snodhill Castle Site Visit”

Escorted tour at 11am of an operationally active archaeological site £10.  Contact Ros email: rosalind_peter@hotmail.com to reserve a place The site is rough and uneven, with steep slopes and drops and is muddy when wet.  Follow up to our September 21st 2023 meeting.  Car pool from Hereford. (tba pub lunch in Dorstone/ Peterchurch)

 

Thursday July 18th       

Rachel Price Greenow (Land Steward) and Joe Haseley (Senior Future Farming Advisor)  

“Natural Capital and Net Zero on the Duchy of Cornwall Estate”

(Management of the Duchy of Cornwall Estates in Herefordshire)

 

There is no meeting in August

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