10th April 2018 An entertaining and educational evening with Henry Sandon who identified and valued several items produced by members of the audience including a twin handled C19 vase, a late C19 Dresden vase featuring a street scene and a female Toby Jug by Martha Gunn who used to assistContinue Reading
25th January 2018 An extra talk to those previously booked was given by Nicholas Coleridge CBE who gave a fascinating insight into his life starting with life between school and uni as a cub reporter on the Falmouth Packet newspaper, progressing to working with such well known publications as Tatler andContinue Reading
14th November 2017 During the talk given by James Pettifer in St. Andrews Hall on the origins of what became known as Pettifer’s Yard i.e. 19 High Street, he showed an old map of what was a Saxon settlement around Pershore with the Avon even then becoming known as aContinue Reading
3rd October 2017 A talk was given by Keith Goddard one of the extremely knowledgeable trustees of Number 8, beginning with a little of the history of the building originally called Portland House and much more about the conversion from a very rundown building to a community centre featuring aContinue Reading
23rd September 2017 Our group was led into a spacious quadrangle to see the elegant Victorian Almshouses. These were dedicated in 1864 as homes for the retired workers from the Madresfield estate and the poor of the parish. From the outset the community enjoyed daily Anglo-Catholic worship which continues toContinue Reading
17th July 2017 A party of 14 met outside EVG now know as Springhill Farms (Pershore)Ltd in Blackminster before assembling in reception to be welcomed by John Mathews. He gave a brief history of the company, owned by the two Sicilian Billie brothers still very much involved after 22 years.Continue Reading
