Slimbridge Local History Society

The Society holds meetings at 7.30pm in the village hall on the third Tuesday of the appropriate month in 2012 and thereafter the first Wednesday from Feb 2013.
Visitors are welcome. Entrance fee £1.50 (including refreshments). Membership fee is £5 per annum


 Among information available to researchers are the following items

* Transcribed Parish Registers for Baptisms, Marriages and Burials dating from 1571
* Census Returns 1841 - 1901
* Graveyard Monumental Inscriptions
* Court Rolls giving information re: parishioners in 15th & 16th `C
* Transcriptions of 16th and 17th Century Wills of local residents
* Photographs of all the village buildings old and new 1998
History of  Cambridge and Slimbridge Schools
Some information re: Cambridge and Gossington Non Conformist Chapels
* Slimbridge Millenium Photographic Archive AD2000
(300 photos of people, places, events, industry, & farming etc.. in the year 2000)

*  Now available on CD


PROGRAMME of MEETINGS 2012/13

Tues Sept. 18th. 2012

Wreck to Rescue
The story of the 'Resolute Lady' Britains last remaining Steam Tug.
Speaker:  Mr. John Rhodes

Tues Nov. 20th 2012

The 'Dursley Donkey' (1856-1962)
Speaker: Mr. Ian Thomas

Wed Feb. 6th 2013

A History of Local Education
Speaker: Mr. David Evans

Wed Apr. 3rd 2013

The Mills of Dursley, Wotton under Edge & Uley
Speaker: Dr. Ray Wilson

Wed June 5th 2013

Annual General Meeting and Members Night


CONTACTS

You can email us at: margaretw@orpheusmail.co.uk

Margaret Weeks: 01453 890059

or Peter Ballard: 01453 890207