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Trip Report – Stanway House (August 2014)
We were so lucky with the weather for this day trip. Had we gone 24 hours later we would have been soaked. An umbrella-defying downpour in Clent coincided exactly with the time when we were rejoining the coach after a… Continue reading
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Trip Report – Four Ashes Hall (June 2014)
The society enjoyed a most enjoyable trip to Four Ashes Hall in June. The property has been in the same family since it was built in 1660 and remains very much a family home. Sebastian had had to clear his… Continue reading
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12th May – National Archives Webinar – ‘Why did people fear the Victorian Workhouse?’
Breaking news… Apologies for the short notice but we have just learned thatPaul Carteris running awebinarvia theNational Archives entitled ‘Why did people fear the Victorian Workhouse?’Paul lead the team to which some society members have made huge contributions by… Continue reading
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Trip Report – Norgrove Court (August 2013)
Visit to Norgrove Court – August 2013 Once again we were fortunate to have a lovely summer day for our afternoon visit to this gem of a building. Much of Norgrove Court dates from 1649 and it is strange to… Continue reading
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Trip Report – Deene Park (June 2013)
Didnt we have a lovely time the day we went to … Deene Park. The 2013 Clent History Society day trip was blessed with a lovely sunny day, a rarity indeed this June. We headed for Deene Park in Northamptonshire.… Continue reading
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Update on our Poor Law Research
The cataloguing of the correspondence between the Poor Law Board/Commission and our local union of Bromsgrove continues to provide some fascinating material. In the summer of 1849 there was a great deal of concern about cholera. A tragic tale unfolds… Continue reading
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More findings from the Poor Law Archives; Debts and Lunatics
As some of you will know the National Archives at Kew has digitised a tranche of documents relating to the Bromsgrove Poor Law Union of which Clent was a part. These are fully searchable and entirely free to access. The… Continue reading
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Pauper Prisons – Pauper Palaces. Poor Law update
The project to document the lives of the poor in the 1800’s, led by the National Archives, is set to make a promising bid for continued research in our region. Continue reading