The History of Phipps Brewery in Towcester and Northampton
Speaker: Alaric Neville. Along with brother Quentin, Alaric was responsible for reviving Phipps IPA. In 2014 he restored the Albion Brewery in Northampton.
Milton Keynes Museum Society
Month: September 2019
My Father’s journey through WWII
Andrew Tennet’s father volunteered in February 1940, serving until March 1946. He was part of the original BEF and had to escape from occupied France.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Down Among The Gypsies
Using examples from her own family and other historical documents Dianne Sutton will tell us about these travelling people.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
History of British parks
The speaker is Paul Rabbitts who is a qualified landscape architect and is currently Head of Parks in Watford. He is a passionate advocate for public parks.
Bletchley Archaeological & Historical Society
Embracing the Pastoral, Anne Halsey – Lady Cobham
Lady Cobham’s love for pastoralism included the Arcadian landscape celebrated in gardens and in the art of Poussin and his followers.
National Trust, Stowe/ Stowe House Preservation Trust
History of the Grand Junction and Union Canals
The Grand Junction Canal was built at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries and the Grand Union Canal came into being in1929.
Wolverton & District Archaeological & Historical Society
History of shoes: followers of fashion
A light-hearted talk by Rebecca Shawcross looking at some of the highs and lows of shoe fashions from the past to the modern day.
Hanslope and District Historical Society
The Madonnas of Pervyse
This talk tells the story of two women, Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker, who went to war in 1914 with the Flying Ambulance Corps.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch