Church Stretton History Group - Events

2024 EVENTS

The cost for members attending the talks is £2 and for non-members, £4.

Monday, October 21st

Dr Roger White:

The Wem Hoard

The hoard comprises 336 items of later Roman hacksilver (including 37 coins), most of which have been deliberately broken up to be reused as bullion. The hoard is only the sixth of its kind from the British Isles and was most likely deposited at some point in the later 5th century – after the Romans had left (circa AD 410).

Dr White excavated the hoard which is of key importance to Shropshire’s history, where there is limited evidence of people living within the county at this time. It would have been a period of great uncertainty, resulting in the collapse of the monetary system and huge disruption to trade, so that bullion was used for the bartering of services paid for by the weight of precious metals.

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Monday, November 18th

2.00pm at the URC Hall

Robert Walker

Medieval Stained Glass

Retired Herefordshire Conservation Officer Robert Walker is the author of a lavishly illustrated book ‘The Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire and Shropshire’, which features glass from over 100 medieval churches and is the result of years of painstaking research.

At the start of his project, Robert consulted Britain’s National Survey of Medieval Stained Glass which, he discovered, covered only 8 churches in Herefordshire and 15 in Shropshire. Having a reasonable idea of the stained glass treasures to be found throughout those two counties, he thought it imperative that they should be properly surveyed, and so that’s what he did! The result is a gazetteer of all known surviving stained glass in the two counties for the periods 1300-1700, which he will tell us about in his talk.

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Monday, December 16th

Social - details to follow

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Monday, January 20th 2025

2.00pm at the URC Hall

Colin Richards:

A Life in Ruins

Colin will talk about his career in historic building conservation.

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Monday, February 17th 2025

2.00pm at the URC Hall

Rose Aston:

Longnor History

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Monday, March 17th

2.00pm at the URC Hall

Dorothy Nicolle:

Cadfael

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Monday, April 14th

Please note change of date

2.00pm at the URC Hall

tba

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Monday, May 19th

2.00pm at the URC Hall

AGM