Slimbridge Local History Society

The Society holds meetings at 7.30pm in the village hall on the third Tuesday of alternate months. See below for the programme of events.
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 2011/12

Tues Sept. 20th. 2011

A History of Dursley
Speaker:  Mr. David Evans

Tues Nov. 15th 2011

A Magic Lantern Show
Speaker: Mr. Patrick Furley

Tues Jan. 17th 2012

The River Severn
Speaker: Dr. S. Draper

Tues Mar. 20th 2012

Medicine and Charity for rich and poor in the 19th C.
Speaker: Dr. Christine Seal

Tues June 19th 2012

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