Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group
OBHAG Programme 2008-2009

Meetings are held in the Memorial Hall , Oswestry. ( FlashEarth Location )
7.30 pm start unless stated otherwise.
For any lecture or visit enquiries please contact Paul Brown

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Please email me if you hear of any local historical/archaeological events not included here.

NEXT OBHAG MEETING - FRIDAY 12th December

The Making of a Christmas Carol

Talk by local historian and author
David Trumper

Every Friday at Oswestry Library

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Weekly Family and Local History Advice Service
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!! IMPORTANT !! Change of Venue for January OBHAG Talk

Please note that due to building work scheduled to take place in the Memorial Hall in the new year OBHAG talks for January and possibly February will be moved to Methodist Church Hall in Castle Street.

More information will be provided to members at the December meeting.

2008 Programme

Friday 12th September - Lloyd George and Dame Margaret, 1921-41
J. Graham Jones - Senior Archivist, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Friday 10th October - Industrial Archaeology in NE Wales
Fiona Gale - Denbighshire County Archaeologist

Friday 14th November - Survival of the Fittest (A Brief History of Child Rearing)
Jan Warner

Friday 12th December - The Making of A Christmas Carol
David Trumper

2009 Programme

Friday 9th January - Meeting moved to Methodist Church Hall, Castle Street
Wroxeter Hinterland Project : Results & Retrospective
Dr. Roger White BA, PhD, MIFA

Friday 13th February - Historic Building of the Marches - an introduction to materials
Harriet Devlin - Lecturer, Ironbridge Institute

Friday 13th March - OBHAG AGM
AGM followed by Presidential Address - Margaret Worthington

Friday 17th April - Mines of Llanymynech Hill
Mike Worsfold - - Shropshire Mines Trust Ltd. Shropshire Caving & Mining Club

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