Members visit the Archive to continue their cleaning and stitching work on our original Banner of 1921 under the guidance of Conservation expert Wendy.

Emma Hamer, our speaker at our meeting in  April, has kindly invited us to visit her farm at Horley. This will be in the afternoon of Thursday 30 June, starting at 2.30. Members can choose either to walk the fields or to go straight to the farmhouse to watch a film about the farm in […]

This evening one of our members, Jo Dyson, will speak about the work of FareShare, a national charity that aims to tackle hunger and food waste by redistributing surplus food from supermarkets to local charities.

Our second title by Amor Towles, Rules of Civility, will be the subject of our meeting this evening.

This visit has been postponed because it was to take place at the height of the July heatwave. The hidden hedged gardens of Warwick are rare survivals of Victorian gardens, originally used by townspeople who had no outdoor space where they lived. They were threatened with destruction but were saved and restored, The summer houses […]

Group members will meet to progress the various strands of research and recording relating to the Holt archive.

Three members will spend the day at the National Needlework Archive in Newbury to continue cleaning and conserving the banner,

If you would like to join this lively group please contact our President, Margaret. As usual, members will meet in the upstairs room at Harpers.

Three members are spending the day at the National Needlework Archive in Newbury to continue cleaning and conserving the banner.

Our speaker this evening, Liz Mitchell, will tell us about wool weaving and its history in the Cotswolds. Liz is a member of the Oxfordshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers and was the editor of their newsletter for a number of years. On this occasion refreshments will follow her talk with the business part […]