The usual indoor meetings for the History Group are at Central Methodist Church at 2pm on the third Wednesday of the month. The next one indoors is 17th September because usually I need a break during July and August. However this year we are doing things slightly differently and trying to pull extra outings into this break time.
Of course in June a coach load of us are off to Lincoln – will they cope I wonder?
At the next main meeting at John Godber we will continue taking names for the special visit to Nottingham University Museum on 20th August (come to see us in the refreshment room).
I have also been making enquiries about a visit to the Flight Test Museum in July but at this point I don’t know for certain. I will keep you informed as soon as I can.
At our usual meeting in May David Amos came to talk to us. This time we had ‘Industrial Annesley’. It seemed quite strange to see striking images of the colliery headstocks in our area now when my grand children don’t even know what coal or a coal mine looks like. The image of the miner sitting looking forlorn as Annesley Colliery closed has stayed with me. It seemed strange too to realise that ‘Annesley Sheds’ were actually in Newstead! To see again the steam trains which we all knew seemed like living, breathing engines as they huffed and puffed along to be followed by the later models and electric Robin Hood Line trains was amazing. Thank you David.
I am working on next years programme of presentations and visits which – cross fingers – will be ready for the September meeting.
Bye for now, Maureen
