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Reports 09
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The first talk was a new departure- the Inaugural
Lecture for Cirencester Heritage Open Days was held on
Friday September 11th sponsored by our Society. All the availablereports can be seen by clicking the Reports 09 tab to the
left. If you would like to write a report of a future meeting please
contact the Vice-Chairman.
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Friday 11th September 2009
Heritage Open Days Public Lecture- sponsored by CAHS
The
Salvation Army Hall - David Grace
Local
historian David Grace discussed the history of a very important building in
Thomas Street, namely the Salvation Army Citadel and its former life as the
Temperance Hall. There was a display of items to tell the story of the
Salvation Army’s local presence including the Citadel Band’s instruments
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Wednesday 23rd September 2009
Corn
Hall Excavations
- Laurie
Coleman
Recent excavations carried out by Cotswold
Archaeology during the refurbishment of the Corn Hall revealed the presence of
Roman shops. Laurie Coleman discussed their
findings which give a new insight into Roman Corinium. He was able to show us a
number of items discovered during the dig, which the audience enjoyed handling.
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Wednesday 28th October 2009
The
Purton Ships Graveyard
- Paul Barnett
A site stretching 1.5km to the north of
Sharpness New Dock entrance is the final resting place of 81 vessels which
formerly sailed on Gloucestershire waterways. Paul discussed how his research
revealed the site, now thought to be the largest of its kind in the UK and give
examples of the ships such as
Severn Trows, forming this wonderful, but currently unprotected, maritime legacy.
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Wednesday 25th November 2009
The Wiggold
Project: from early prehistory to the present day,
Professor
Tim Darvill
Wiggold
is a small hamlet at the centre of Abbey Home Farm, on the northern
edge of Cirencester. Bournemouth University's fieldwork over the last four years
has established that this Cotswold upland landscape is exceptionally rich
in sites and monuments. Dating from the first settlement of the area, prior
to 4000 BC, these include a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, Bronze Age and
Iron Age field boundaries and enclosures, Roman and medieval settlement, more
recent buildings, fields and woods.
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Wednesday 27th January 2010
7.30 at the Ashcroft Centre, Ashcroft Road Cirencester
William
Morris and Kelmscott Manor
Tristan Molloy and Jane Milne,
Property Managers
Kelmscott
Manor, a grade 1 Listed Tudor farmhouse adjacent to the River Thames, was
built in the late 1500s, with an additional wing added in about 1665. William
Morris chose it as his summer home, signing a joint lease
with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the summer of
1871. The house - perhaps the most evocative of all the houses associated
with Morris - contains an outstanding collection of the possessions and
works of Morris, his family and associates (Benson, Burne-Jones, Rossetti
and Webb amongst them), including furniture, original textiles, pictures,
carpets, ceramics and metalwork.
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 Wednesday 24th February 2010
Croome Lecture -Jointly held with the
Cirencester Civic Society.
The
Ongoing Refurbishment of the Parish Church of St John the Baptist
Malcolm
James
The Parish Church is currently still undergoing refurbishment as part of
an ongoing conservation project. This illustrated talk dealt with several
key aspects of this refurbishment; namely the interior work, the organ and the
South Porch area. The future challenges and past restorations were discussed.
Malcolm
donated his fee to the funding campaign. The societies donated visitor
income for this meeting. To contribute to the campaign visit http://www.cirenparish.co.uk/campaign.htm
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
Joint lecture with the Cirencester Science & Technology Society.(CSTS)
Current
Approaches to Conservation Management in Historic Properties
Sarah Staniforth, Head of Conservation in the National Trust
The
speaker is Head of Conservation for the National Trust and looked at
challenges facing the organization in managing its extensive estate, emphasising
various extreme weather events that have afflicted numerous properties in
recent years as evidence of climate change. She described meaures to adapt
to and mitigate the effects of climate change and other risks.
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Wednesday 31st March 2010 Cotswold Archaeology Public Lecture
The
birth of a capital? Becoming Roman in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds
Tom Moore,
University of Durham
Cotswold
Archaelogy invited us to join them at their annual public lecture.
Tom Moore reported on recent fieldwork and
asks what we really know of the massive earthworks at Bagendon, long
perceived as the site of the capital of the Dobunni tribe.
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 Wednesday 28th April
2010
Punch
& Judy - Alix Booth
For
over thirty years Alix Booth has worked with Mr Punch. Punch was first recorded
by Samuel Pepys in 1662, but most of the story has been developed in the period
from1760-1830. Punch is the common man fighting his small battles with life. The characters in the traditional show are just the ones that would have beset
him during this time. The illustrated talk featured her
popular puppet cabaret with a contemporary twist.
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Wednesday 26th May 2010
Summer Meeting and AGM.
Magic
Lantern Show - Patrick Furley
We watched an entertainment from before the days of
cinema and television with this marvelous magic lantern show and learned the history
of this fascinating medium which many of our grandparents will have watched.
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