PHHS MEETINGS

All meetings are held at Wulstan Hall, Priest Lane (next to the school), Pershore, and begin at 7.30pm unless indicated otherwise. There is a car park at the Hall.

Society members £1 at the door.

Visitors welcome, £2 at the door.

NEXT MEETING:

7 February 2019

Outings: please note that outings will no longer be listed here.

Programme of talks 2018/19:

5 April 2018

PHHS AGM, followed by a talk on the Centenary of the RAF,

by Paul Harding

3 May 2018

'We Did Our Bit', a film about county veterans of World War 2 made by Mike Jackson; he will also talk about how the film came to be made.

7 June 2018

'Country life of yesteryear - blacksmiths, houses and churches'

by David Phillips

5 July 2018

'Beating Beeching - 50 years on: The fall and rise of Pershore's station'

by Mike Clemens, Julian Palfrey and Phil Ralls

2 August 2018

Summer outing to Alcester

6 September 2018

'Florence Nightingale - her life, illnesses and the cold water cure'

by Dr John Harcup

4 October 2018

'Georgian Worcestershire'

by Paul Harding

1 November 2018

'The work of Worcestershire Wildlife Trust'

by Harry Green

6 December 2018

Christmas social

3 January 2019

'A Victoria Cross Hero'

by Gloria Winfield

Pershore Library, meeting room - access at the back of the building from the car park

7 February 2019

'Navigating the Avon: the history and work of the Avon Navigation Trust'

by Clive Matthews

7 March 2019

PHHS Annual General Meeting, followed by

'Navigating the Text: an interpretation of the Avon Navigation

Act (1751)'

by Matthew Winfield

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NEWS and PAST EVENTS

Worcestershire Remembers

Saturday 4 August 2018, The Guildhall, Worcester: commemorating the 1914-1918 war in the county, on the day war was declared in 1914.

Pershore Heritage Centre presented displays about the 'WW1 in the Vale' project, and the current exhibition 'Pershore during the Great War'. We were one of 24 organisations and projects to present research about the Great War in Worcestershire.

About 1,000 visitors came to the Guildhall that day, despite the heat. It was great to talk to so many people.

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How the Pershore Plum Won the Great War, edited by Jenni Waugh and Maggie Andrews, published by The History Press 2016.

PHHS members contributed research to this book published for the WW1 in the Vale HLF-funded project, together with members of Pershore Women's Institute who celebrated their centenary in 2016. The Heritage Centre has more copies for sale, and it is also available from various outlets in Pershore and online from the usual suspects.

Copies of the WW1 trail are still available for free from the PHC. An expanded, updated, and better illustrated version of this trail will be available on the website soon.

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Tiddesley Wood open day

Sunday 6 May 2018: PHHS members were there with a small display, braving the heat.

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Pershore Plum Festival

2018 Plum Fayre Monday 27 August.

The Heritage Centre was open, and secondhand books and jigsaws were again on sale to raise funds for the Centre. Also on display were photographs and objects connected to Pershore's horticultural and plummy history. It was a very successful day.

Thanks to all the PHHS members and others who donated books and jigsaws, and to all the visitors who bought them.

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