Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group
OBHAG Programme 2007-2008

This page provides a simple print version of OBHAG lectures and visits for 2007 and 2008. Meetings to be held at the Memorial Hall, Oswestry, at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated.

For more detail please view the Website www.pastcaring.com/obhag or for any other enquiries contact Paul Brown


2007 Programme

Friday 11th May - Evening Visit to Benthall Hall, Broseley
Guide:- National Trust - Meet at Benthall Hall 7 pm - NT members £3 - non NT members £6
Saturday 16th June - Day Coach Trip - Manchester Past & Present
Leaves Oswestry Oak St. Car Park 8.30 am - returns approx. 7 pm - £15 per person
Non Members Welcome
Friday 13th July - Evening walk around Welshpool
Guided by Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust - Meet at Welshpool Church St. Car Park 7 pm
Friday 14th September - My Childhood in the [Morda] Workhouse
Syd Bailey
Friday 12th October - Settlement patterns from the Late Neolithic to the Early Iron Age:
the upper Severn Valley in context
John Halstead - University of Birmingham
Friday 9th November - The Story of the Shrewsbury Museum Collections 1835-2007
Peter D. A. Boyd - Shrewsbury Museums Collections Manager
Friday 14th December - Welshampton Railway Disaster - 1897
Chris Jobson

2008 Programme

Friday 11th January - Ruyton XI Towns & Charter 2008 Celebrations
Yoland Brown
Friday 8th February - Recent CPAT Archaeological Projects
Bill Britnell - Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
Friday 14th March - OBHAG AGM
AGM followed by Presidential Address - Dr. Paul Stamper F.S.A
Friday 11th April - John Thomas of Ardmillan - a Victorian Gentleman
Lynn Yates