The History Group starts the new year of 2026 with a talk from Alex Rose called ‘A Literary Ramble Around Nottingham’
All the groups indoor meetings are held at Central Methodist Church on Baker Street but there is a car park at the rear on Titchfield Street. Meetings start at 2pm, usually there is a break for refreshments and closure is about 4pm.
Later there will be details of the visits booked for this year plus costs and times of departure and return.
A special wish from the team of helpers is for History Group members to have a happy and healthy 2026.
The next meeting will be on 26th January at the church hall for St Peter and St Paul’s on Ruffs Drive.
After the Christmas break we shall be doing recipes that can be used for picnics or days out or even gatherings at home. As always, the recipes can be adapted for large or small gatherings.
There is no meeting in January so the next meeting of the Garden group is on 11th February 2026, when we visit Easton Walled Garden to see the snowdrops and other spring bulbs. We still have a few vacancies for this trip if anyone would like to join us. Please see us at the back of the hall at the January main meeting.
For our final meeting of 2025 Bob McEwen had prepared a very interesting and varied quiz. Some of the questions were about the topics we covered this year, and some were based on the fiendish format of ‘Only Connect’
Another round was to add missing vowels to complete the names of well-known scientists.
e.g. L_ _ _S P_ ST_ _ R (Louis Pasteur) The one that defeated everybody was:
DL VL CBYRN Can you do it? (Answer at the end of this article)
Following a break for tea/coffee and mince pies we moved on to assembling models of woodland insects and members of the spider family.
The templates were donated by Greenwood an initiative to enable Nottinghamshire’s communities to create, enhance and enjoy woodlands and other accessible green spaces in a sustainable way and Miner2Major whose nature projects focus on the landscape, habitats, species and trails of Sherwood Forest which locally includes Moor Pond Woods in Papplewick. All to the benefit of native wildlife and habitats.
Thanks to everyone for their contributions this year as we look forward to 2026.
January 16th Meeting 10am at JGC
Seating is out for the annual Pantomime so we will be at the back of the hall.
John Tedstone will be sharing his recent visit to the medical history section at the London Science Museum, and I have a presentation about what is on offer at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds which is the venue for our science visit on Friday May 15th.
Finally, you will have the opportunity to select an invention which is the theme for our ‘5-minute talks’.
