Annual Programme, Minutes & Chairman's Report
All meetings take place in Stoneleigh Village Hall at 7.30pm. Visitors are very welcome. There is a small charge of £3 to include refreshments.
2025 | Read the Chairman's Report for 2025 | |
28th Jan | David Morse, of Leamington History Group: The Year without a Summer - 1816 | Minutes |
25th Feb | Members' short talks: Pete James Godiva and Leofric / Shirley Ball My husband on Christmas Island / Margaret Moorhouse The Garlick family / Lisa Reay Durham and Stoneleigh family connections | Minutes |
25th Mar | Change to the advertised talk. Sheila Woolf will speak on "An Arabian Odyssey - from Flintshire to the Land of the Pharaohs", the story of her ancestor's adventures in Egypt and the Sudan in the 1800s. | Minutes |
22nd Apr | Sheila Woolf: Sir Henry Parkes - ten years on from our bicentenary celebrations | Minutes |
27th May | Mel Bianco: A personal interpretation of the Cistercian Abbey at Stoneleigh | Minutes |
24th Jun | Quentin Compton-Bishop: From Smyrna to Stoneleigh - my Levantine Heritage. In the 19th century there were thriving communities of western Europeans in the Ottoman Empire. Known as "Levantines" they were engaged in shipping, trade and diplomacy, with Smyrna (now Izmir) being a cosmopolitan hub. Quentin Compton-Bishop will describe the history of the Levantines and trace his family origins back to the Ottoman Empire. | Minutes |
23rd Sep | Lisa Reay and Sheila Woolf: Tales from the Churchyard A look back at the society's churchyard project, investigating the stories of "those who came before us" - this time focussing on some surprisingly eminent people, Abbey servants, "notorious" 19th century burials and our oldest tombs. | Meeting |
28th Oct | Sue Crofts: North Lodge -The House and its inhabitants from 1841-2025 How a lodge on the edge of the Stoneleigh Deer Park evolved from being a two-cottage home for workers on the Stoneleigh Estate, to a booking office for the golf course and finally, a comfortable family home. | Meeting |
25th Nov | Chris Kirby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire): Hannah Snell, an 18th century Female Icon Her extraordinary story includes how disguised as a man she signed up to the Warwickshire Sixth of Foot and fought in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. | Meeting |
16th Dec | Christmas Social | Social |
