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7th December – Christmas, Past and Present
You are invited to join us at Clent Parish Hall on Thursday 7th December. The doors will be open at 7pm so come and grab a seat ready for Mary Bodfish to begin her talk at 8pm. The season to… Continue reading
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Meetings and Events for 2023
A focus on very local history fills our calendar for the Historic year of 2023: Stourbridge Glass Works, Avoncroft and the Witches of Worcestershire will all be featured. Continue reading
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16th March – “Stained Glass Windows” – Roy Allbutt
Roy Allbutt will start our Clent History Society year with a talk exploring the colourful and highly specialised art of Stained Glass Windows. With his wide ranging knowledge and enthusiasm around this subject we can look forward to an evening… Continue reading
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17th November – “Shackleton’s Endurance” – Andrew Lound
The story isn’t over yet… … Earlier this year (February 2022) Sir Ernest Shackleton’s long lost ship Endurance, was discovered! Located at a depth of 3,008m in the waters of Antarctica and 4 miles south of its last recorded position.… Continue reading
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2022 Event Programme
Dates for your Diary: Thursday – 17th March, 19th May, 15th September and 17th November. Continue reading
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25th November – A 1920’s Christmas
Christmas is Coming and…… Yes Christmas is coming soon and Clent History Society, always ever ready, will be dipping its toes into Christmases past and present a little earlier this year. Our Christmas date to remember is Thursday 25th November. Yes… Continue reading
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Latest News – Aug 2021
Hopefully Clent History Society meetings will be restarting very soon in Clent Parish Hall. Over the last year we have enjoyed being part of the Zoom meetings put on by Belbroughton and Chaddesley History Societies. Some interesting talks were presented… Continue reading
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Hard Times – Historic experiences of Pandemic in Clent: Plague and Cholera
In the grip of COVID-19, John Amplett relates how Clent coped with a previous pandemic; The Plague, and we read what advice the ‘Sanitary Committee of the County Council of Worcestershire’ had to say about Cholera in 1892 Continue reading