Booklets
Several small booklets have so far been published by the society and some are available to buy from our displays in the Leigh Chapel of St Mary the Virgin Church, Stoneleigh. Each booklet will open in PDF format in a new tab. Simply close it to return to this page.
2021 | Read the Chairman's Report for 2021 | |
26th Jan | Bill Crofts. This strictly non-technical talk will describe The University of Warwick's 4th satellite mission, WUSAT-3, (conceived in Stoneleigh!). Its objective is to test a novel method of monitoring tagged wildlife from Space. | Meeting |
23rd Feb | Jill Kashi, a guide at Baddesley Clinton. The Little Maids and the Wandering Butler. Life in domestic service at Baddesley Clinton from the 1880s to 1923. | Meeting |
23rd Mar | AGM and change of programme: Peter James on "The Girl who invaded America". Born in Foleshill in 1862, the heroine of the story was the daughter of a silk weaver. She sailed to Philadelphia aged just seventeen... what happened next? | Meeting |
27th Apr | Peter Walters - his current project, an historical layering of maps of Coventry for the interactive website Coventry Atlas. | Meeting |
25th May | The outing to Maxstoke Castle being postponed, Sheila Woolf talked on "Philip Larkin and Coventry." | Meeting |
29th Jun | Georgie Hale will talk about her experience of being shipwrecked in the Antarctic. (Cancelled) | Meeting |
24th Sep | A grand show, in conjunction with the Stoneleigh Male Voice Choir, celebrating a thousand years of Stoneleigh History. | Event |
28th Sep | David Morse. The Warwickshire Home Guard of WW2. | Minutes |
26th Oct | Dr. Richard Churchley. Old pubs and lost hostelries - their history, strange names and stories. | Minutes |
30th Nov | A celebration of our decade of existence. | Event |
14th Dec | Christmas Social. | Social |
