Lectures

• The Berkeley Vale Railway

  16/12/2022

  Howard Parker will cover the History and Future of the Vale of Berkeley Railway line. Volunteers have been working since 2015 to establish a new heritage railway using the line which runs from Berkeley Road to Sharpness.

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• 1921 Wortley Terrace, Who was Sophie?

  27/01/2023

  Jeff Walshe, the Society secretary, will provide an insight to where she originally came from, Sophie's life here in Wotton, and what happened at the end.

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• How Council houses came about.

  24/02/2023

  Helen Roberts will enlighten us into the history of council houses in both the UK and locally.

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• Gloucestershire's Atlantic Slave Trade

  31/03/2023

  Tony Conder, a Gloucestershire researcher, discusses the involvement of Gloucester and the county estates in both the trade and its abolition.

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• Lives of Rolls and Royce

  28/04/2023

  The talk itself focuses on the lives of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce, explains how they met and formed the Rolls-Royce Company, why it was (and is) so successful and then follows their stories to the end of their lives in 1910 and 1933 respectively.

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