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Programme

   
 
All meetings start at 7.30 pm in the hall at Radley Primary School, Church Road, Radley (unless otherwise stated).
 
2011-2012  
Monday 12th September AGM followed by talk by Andy Lamb, curator of the Bate Collection of musical instruments at the University of Oxford
Monday 10th October 'Alice in Waterland' - Mark Davies (the role played by the River Thames in creating Lewis Carroll's famous books)
Monday 14th November 'From Gough to Google' - John Leighfield (maps through the ages illustrated with maps of Berkshire/Oxfordshire)
Monday 5th December Christmas meal at the Bowyer Arms, Radley (note change of date)
Monday 9th January 'Early days of the Salvation Army in Oxfordshire' - Robert Sephton
Monday 13th February 'The coming of the Bastilles - Abingdon's first poor law union' - Paul Carter
Monday 12th March 'The Wantage Engineering Company' - Tony Hadland
Monday 16th April 'Missionary Aviation Fellowship' - John Ledger (combined meeting with Radley Women's Fellowship - note change of date)
Monday 14th May 'Industrial architecture in Oxford' - Liz Woolley
Monday 11th June 'Hampton Poyle railway crash' - Linda Haynes
Monday 9th July Members' interests
Summer 2012 A visit to a local place of historical interest - to be arranged
August No meeting
Monday 10th September AGM followed by talk by Tony Gillman 'From Astrolabes to Einstein - 1,000 years of scientific history in Oxford's Ashmolean building'
   
2010-2011  
Monday 13th September AGM followed by a talk by Club member, David Buckle, on 'Turbulent Times at Cowley'
Monday 11th October 'Scratching the Surface' - talk by John Richards (chairman, Oxford Blues Metal Detecting Club) on metal detecting and finds made by his club's members around Radley
Monday 8th November 'Tudor Abingdon' - talk by Janey Cumber
Monday 6th December Christmas meal at the Bowyer Arms, Radley (note this is the first Monday in the month)
Monday 10th January 'It will do him more good than going to school' - talk on child labour in 19th century Oxfordshire by Liz Woolley
Monday 14th February 'The soldiers of Oxfordshire - recording stories of county people in war' - talk by Stanley Jenkins, secretary and archivist of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust
Monday 14th March History of Cowley Part 3 - Rosanne Butler
Monday 11th April Members' Projects - a chance for members to talk about an interesting object or person
Monday 9th May Lower Radley, its houses and the people who made them - illustrated talk by Richard Dudding
Monday 13th June The existing buildings of Abingdon Abbey - talk by David Clark
Monday 11th July No meeting
Saturday 16th
& Sunday 17th July
Exhibition in Radley Village Hall on farming and family life in Radley during the last 400 years
Details
Sunday 24th July 2 pm Visit to Romano-British excavation project by Oxford University at Marcham/Frilford
August No meeting
 
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