APOLOGIES - talks have been given since the pandemic but the list has not been updated.
All talks held in the Pewsey Heritage
Centre unless otherwise stated below.
Wednesday 20th March
2019- Kay Wardle - History
of Pewsey Vale Boat Club
- Richard Giles - 'Go West Young Man'
- Pewsey to Bristol by rowing
boat
Wednesday 21st November 2018
- Trevor Beaven MBE - Railways
through the Vale of
Pewsey
- Linda
Keepence - Dr Rayment & His Family
Wednesday 21st
March 2018
- Mike Marshman - Pewsey Vale Pubs and
their Names
Wednesday 22nd November 2017
- Liz Johnson - A Walk through the
history
of Easton Royal
- Richard Giles - E H Thorne & Son, Pewsey
Vale Coaches.
Wednesday 3rd May 2017
- Cheryl Underhill - K & A Canal
history -
ongoing research.
- Richard Giles - Pewsey White Horse 80
years on.
Wednesday 19th October 2016 in the
Pewsey Heritage
Centre
- Linda Keepence - Village
Post Offices &
Postmasters/mistresses in the Pewsey
area
- Paul Cowan - Whatley & Co, Water
Engineers, Avonside
Foundry.
Wednesday 16th March 2016
- David Smith - Hiscock
& Smith, Agricultural
Engineers
- Richard Giles - The
Restoration of the milestone at Charlton
St Peter on the Andover to Devizes coach
road.
Wednesday 7th October 2015 - at 7.30 pm
A short business session was
followed by three abridged Local
History Research Reports:
- Verina Horsnell & Mike
Smith - The Vernacular Architecture of a
17th/18th Century Cottage in
Upavon
- Wendy Lawrence - The
Manningford
Postcard
-
Cheryl Underhill - The Reverend Joseph
Townsend, Rector of Pewsey in the
17/1800s
Wednesday
18th March
2015 at 7.30 pm
Short business session
followed by three abridged Local
History Research Reports:
- Liz Johnson - Easton
Royal
Priory
- Vaughan Roberts - Archaeological
Artefacts in the Parish of Pewsey
- Richard Giles - The "Blue
Line" of WW2
defences along the Kennet & Avon Canal -
Pewsey Vale
Inaugural Meeting:
The
initial meeting of the above
group was held in September 2014 in the
Bouverie Hall, Pewsey
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