Current Year Programme 2024
Hereford Civic Society
Meeting Programme September 2024 to August 2025
All meetings are 7.00pm for 7.30pm in Meeting Room Q at the
Kindle Centre behind ASDA, Hereford HR2 7JE unless otherwise stated
2024
Monday September 2nd
Brockhampton Manor House and Moat visit
Follow up to February 15th meeting, with Malcolm Penny (writer and volunteer at Brockhampton) as our guide. Car pool from Hereford arriving at 11am. NT entrance charges apply (NT members free).
Thursday September 19th
Rhys Griffiths, Herefordshire Council Senior Archivist
“The Godwin Tiles”
Saturday September 21st 10.30am - 4pm
“Hereford History Day” Town Hall, St. Owen’s Street. Free Entry.
Twenty+ local community organisations represented including HCS. Talks by invited speakers: Nick Hodges (BBC’s “Who do you think you are”); Major David Seeney and Clare Wichbold MBE
Thursday October 17th
Tim Bridges “Hereford’s Victorian and Edwardian Buildings”
Followed by AGM at 8.30 pm
Thursday November 14th
David Thame “It means the world to us: Places, Property Development and Memory”
Wednesday December 11th POSTPONED. The proposed visit to the Coningsby Hospital and Museum in Widemarsh Street has been postponed to future date.
Thursday December 12th
Christmas meeting (in our usual meeting room at the Kindle Centre).
“Coningsby Hospital. A Hidden Gem” from 7pm. Drinks & mince pies on arrival.
Peter Harris, the Curator of the Hospital & Museum and Chairman of the Trustees will explore the origins of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, the modern-day Order of St John, and the adoption of the House of the Hospitallers in Hereford by Sir Thomas Coningsby as part of his Coningsby Hospital.
Annual Membership: £15.00 (£25.00 for two living at the same address). Membership renewal due each 1st September. The Programme of events can always be found on our website. Non-members always welcome to attend our meetings: meeting admission £3 donation
General public: to receive our free monthly email and be informed of our meeting programme, email: herefordcivicsociety@hotmail.co.uk Website: www.herefordcivicsociety.org.uk
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