Talks & Events Programme to December 2015
Thursday 19 March 2019 7.30 – Widcombe Baptist Church Main Hall
Guest Speaker Michael Chapman ‘Prior Park Hunting Park from Norman Times to Ralph Allen’.
Wednesday 15 April 7.30 – Widcombe Baptist Church Main Hall
Guest speaker Tony Coverdale ‘The Restoration of Saltford Brass Mill -a Grade II* Listed Building and Ancient Monument’.
Sunday 10 May 1.30 – Beating the Bounds
This Walk will start from Ferry Lane, by the river.
Organised by Widcombe Association Events in association with Widcombe Parish and Widcombe Junior School.
Thursday 14 May 7.30 – Widcombe Baptist Church Lower Hall
History Research Group: Margaret Burrows will continue the story of Claverton Street from the Old Bridge to Spring Gardens Road. Once packed with houses and shops it is still undergoing change.
Thursday 18 June 7.00 – A History Walk with Widcombe Association
Meeting at the beginning of Church Street, up Church Lane to Prior Park Garden gate and returning via The Dell to finish at St Thomas à Becket Church for wine etc. £5.00
Thursday 16 July 7.00 – A History Walk around Bathwick
(more details later).
Sunday afternoon 13 September – Widcombe and Lyncombe Chapel Trail.
Collect a map from any of the participating Chapels or Churches.
Details on the Widcombe Association events website.
Thursday 17 September 7.30 – Widcombe Baptist Church Main Hall
Guest speaker Stuart Burroughs, Curator of the Bath at Work Museum, once a Real Tennis court. Stuart will also talk about the Real Tennis court in Widcombe in the 18th century.
Thursday 22 October 7.30 – Widcombe Baptist Church Lower Hall
Research Group: Tony Coverdale and Phil Bendall
‘The various mills of Widcombe and Lyncombe: How they worked and their function’.
Thursday 19 November 7.30 – Widcombe Baptist Church Lower Hall
Research Group and Margaret Burrows.
Further research on ‘Dirt, floods, disease and bad sanitation’ and what was done to combat problems. Mostly derived from public reports.
Thursday 3 December 7.30 – Widcombe Baptist Church Lower Hall {Christmas Meeting}
Reminiscences of Bath and the Widcombe area, interesting finds and pictures.
Followed by wine and mince pies etc.
Meetings in the Main Hall £3 including tea & biscuits. Meetings of the Research Group in the Lower Hall £1.50 incl, tea & biscuits
