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Talks are usually held in the Cricklade Town Hall annexe, doors open at 7.00pm for 7.30 pm with refreshments available on arrival.
Members free – Non-Members £5
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| wdt_ID | wdt_created_by | wdt_last_edited_by | wdt_created_at | Topic | wdt_last_edited_at | Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Talk synopsis | Comments | Details | Artwork |
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| 1 | peb01dt1 | peb01dt1 | 06/01/2025 07:18 AM | AGM | 06/01/2025 07:18 AM | 19/02/2025 | 07:30 PM | Town Hall Annexe | Members & Visitors welcome | More details | |||
| 2 | peb01dt1 | peb01dt1 | 06/01/2025 07:23 AM | This England just where did it come from? | 07/01/2025 07:53 PM | 19/03/2025 | 07:30 PM | Town Hall Annexe | The Rev’d Dr. Nicholas Henderson | “An often forgotten and mysterious period in English History and Architecture, but the legacy lingers and is with us visibly and linguistically to this day. An exploration into the great upheavals in society and community as reflected in architecture and cultural change that disrupted and formed two great English cultures.” Canute, to William the Conqueror, to the Tudors and everything in between. The Anglo-Saxons and the Normans - gave us an enduring legacy, but so did the Danes and the Church. An often forgotten and mysterious period in what was to become ... 'English' history. The legacy lingers on visibly and even audibly in architecture, linguistics and society. An exploration into the great upheavals in society and community that dis-rupted and formed the cultural feeds into what was to become England and eventually Great Britain |
Members & Visitors welcome | More details |  |
| 4 | peb01dt1 | peb01dt1 | 07/01/2025 07:01 AM | Aircraft production at South Marston | 03/04/2025 09:59 AM | 16/04/2025 | 07:30 PM | Town Hall Annexe | Bill King | The talk describes the history and activities of this site which, built as a Shadow Factory in the early days of WW2, was developed to produce advanced training aircraft for Miles Aircraft, Stirling heavy bombers for Short Brothers and then the Spitfire, Attacker, Swift and Scimitar aircraft for Supermarine. The site was closed in 1985 to become the UK Honda car factory. |
Members & Visitors welcome | More details | |
| 5 | peb01dt1 | peb01dt1 | 07/01/2025 07:13 AM | WW2 The Starr Brothers | 07/01/2025 07:52 PM | 21/05/2025 | 07:30 PM | Town Hall Annexe | Paul Gentleman | Covers three airmen from WW2. The Starr Brothers from Swindon – Harold and John, plus Harold’s brother-in-law. Covers the Battle of Britain, the Great Escape and the attack of the V1 bomb by Germany. | Members & Visitors welcome | More details | |
| 6 | peb01dt1 | peb01dt1 | 07/01/2025 07:17 AM | Guide Walk - Tracing the "Route of the Saxon Walls" of Cricklade | 06/03/2025 09:53 AM | 06/06/2025 | 07:00 PM | Cricklade Museum | Walk starts: (Multiple places) Museum – 7.00pm, approx 1hr 30 mins (Partly over uneven terrain) . Saxons Rest - 7.00pm, approx 1hr 15mins (missing out uneven terrain) Finishes: Cricklade Museum where refreshments will be served. |
FREE TO ALL ~ DONATIONS ARE WELCOME | More details | ||
| 7 | peb01dt1 | peb01dt1 | 07/01/2025 08:26 AM | The North Wessex Way | 07/01/2025 08:26 AM | 18/06/2025 | 07:30 PM | Members & Visitors welcome | David Mitchell | When David was given an almost 400 year old map – number 79 from an old atlas – showing a route running between Oxford and Bristol via Wiltshire, a ten year journey of discovery began. Romans, Kings and Armies have all marched along a road that has been forgotten in time. | More details | ||
| 8 | peb01dt1 | peb01dt1 | 07/01/2025 08:29 AM | Guided Walk - Topic TBC | 07/01/2025 08:29 AM | 24/08/2025 | 02:00 PM | Town Hall - Car Park | More details | ||||
| 9 | peb01dt1 | peb01dt1 | 07/01/2025 08:36 AM | To be confirmed | 07/01/2025 08:36 AM | 17/09/2025 | 07:30 PM | Town Hall Annexe | Mark Clarke | Members & Visitors welcome | More details | ||
| 10 | peb01dt1 | peb01dt1 | 07/01/2025 08:38 AM | War to Wildlife Project | 07/01/2025 08:38 AM | 15/10/2025 | 07:30 PM | Town Hall Annexe | Vince Povey | “With a lean towards the cold war wireless experiments.” | Members & Visitors welcome | More details |