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5th December 2019 Battalion of Pals Talk At our November meeting the Rev. Keith Fazzani gave a fascinating and moving account of the role played by Cory’s Pals Battalion in the First World War. Rev....

15th October 2019 Archives Review At our September meeting we took the opportunity to look through our extensive collection of old Parish Magazines, some of which date back to the 1960’s.  Each edition is...

16th August 2019 The History Society had a most enjoyable August meeting during which we reviewed a selection of artefacts from our archives, including original Appledore halfpenny tokens dating back to...

30th July 2019 The First of our New Format Meetings was held on Thursday, 11th July 2019, with the Focus on a Review of Extracts from Our Archives. We also Discussed and Provisionally Planned Future...

9th July 2019 Graveyard clear up Firstly thanks to those who helped with the second graveyard clear up, including Tom who provided teas and coffees throughout the morning!   Only 10 people volunteered...

7th June 2019 Annual General Meeting – Methodist Hall – Thursday, 18th April We held our AGM at 7:00pm on Thursday 18th April. Brian Knight continues as Chair and similarly, Terry Blaney remains as...

11th May 2019 After several years of dedicated service as Society Treasurer, Wendy Thomas has decided to hang up her cheque book.  She remains a member and her invaluable support at events, she...

14th March 2019 Thank You! Firstly, a very big thank you to everyone who came along to help tidy up the Closed Cemetery on 2nd March!  There were 20 Volunteers on site between 9:00am until about 1:00pm....

18th February 2019 On Saturday, 2nd March 2019, a VOLUNTEER WORK PARTY will undertake a clearance of vegetation at the CHURCHYARD & the CLOSED CEMETERY. It would be greatly appreciated if you could spend...

15th January 2019 Happy New Year! CLOSED CEMETERY TIDY UP – You may remember that clearance work was organised in the churchyard at St Peter and St Paul. Lots of graves are now accessible that were...