OBHAG Programme 2020 – Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group
Meetings are held at the Methodist Church Hall, Castle Street on the second Friday of the month at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated
Entry Fee: Members £2 Visitors £5
NEXT EVENT
Next Event – ‘All day visit to Beaumaris and Penmon on 11th July‘
10th January ‘Recent Research on Wroxeter & Roman Shropshire’
Dr Roger White, University of Birmingham
14th February ‘Aethelflaed, Warrior Queen’
Joanna Arman, Historian and Author, University of Winchester
13th March AGM and talk ‘Oswestry’s Castle Bank: its history over the past two hundred and fifty years’
John Pryce-Jones, OBHAG President
17th April (note 3rd Friday due to Easter) ‘An Oswestry Squire: “Mad Jack” Mytton of Halston’
David Thornycroft
15th May (note 3rd Friday due to VE Day holiday) Evening visit to the ancient Montgomeryshire village of Llanfechain’
Guided Tour including church and Domen Gastell Motte. Meet at the Village Hall at 7.00pm
Wednesday 17th June Afternoon visit to Pitchford Hall
Guided tour and cream tea. Cost £20 Booking essential. Meet at the hall at 2.30pm
Saturday 11th July Full day visit to Beaumaris Castle & Penmon Priory Anglesey with Roger Cooper and Tom Lerwil
Coach from Oak Street Car Park at 8.30am. Click for application form.
11th September ‘Old Oswestry(s), boundaries and ancient routes’
Tim Malim, Technical Director, SLR Consulting
9th October ‘Medical Insights into Poor Law Records’
Andrew Pattison Friends of Shropshire Archives
13th November ‘Oswestry’s medieval bards: the first urban Welsh poets’
Eurig Salisbury, University Aberystwyth
11th December The findings and significance of OCRP’s research on the Marcher castle at Oswestry
Roger Cooper, Project Director