Sharnbrook
Local History Group

On
behalf of the Bedfordshire Local History
Association is pleased to invite you to the

2016 BLHA AGM &
Conference

Sharnbrook Village Hall,
Lodge Road, MK44 1JP

Saturday 18th
June 2016

 

OUR
COMMUNITIES, OUR STORIES – RESEARCHING OUR LOCAL HERITAGE

 

Programme

9.00-9.30am

 

Coffee & Registration

9.30-10.00am

 

AGM

10.10am

 

Welcome
by June Barnes, Chair, Sharnbrook Local History Group

10.15-11.15am

“Researching our Local Heritage” 

Carenza Lewis, Professor of the Public Understanding of Research, Lincoln University

 

11.15-11.40am

 

“Sharnbrook’s medieval story”

June Barnes & Des Hoar

11.45am-1.15pm

Visit to Castle Close, a 12th century moated earthwork, with a chance to
have a go at field surveying or shovel pit digging,    

or

A Walk
around the Sharnbrook Heritage Trail to look at some of the interesting
buildings in the village

 

1.15-2.15pm

Buffet Lunch

 

2.20-2.45pm

“Bedfordshire in 1670: evidence from the Hearth Tax Returns”  

Dorothy Jamieson

 

2.45—3.10pm

“Queens Park Lives”  

Neslyn Pearson & colleagues

 

3.10-3.35pm

“Clophill & Sharnbrook – a comparative study using census data” 

Colin Watt

 

3.35-4.00pm

“Beats, Boots & Poachers” 

Des Hoar

 

4.00

Summing up and close, followed by tea, coffee and biscuits

 

Attendance at the AGM alone is free.

There is a car park at the hall, but if full please park in Lodge Road.