Previous Meetings:
The report for the November theatrical presentation by Jane Glennie on The Friendship of Jane Austen & Martha will be available shortly.
Next Meeting: Tuesday 9th December – A Magic Lantern Show: Victorian Humour – Alan Brindle
Alan’s show will feature lantern slides from the early Victorian period to 1880. All of the slides in the show were professionally produced and represented cutting edge technology in that period. These spectacular shows provided exciting entertainment long before the birth of the cinema. We will revisit a time when magic lantern slides thrilled and amazed their audiences and were fun!! The young loved the jokes played by little rascals and the tricks done by monkeys and other such animals. The old loved the morals and philosophy behind the stories. This show includes the most famous moving slide ever produced, The Rat Swallower. Be warned!! Some of these Victorian humour slides are not what you would call politically correct nowadays but they were totally acceptable in this bygone era.
Please note this meeting is the SECOND Tuesday of the month.
Full details of the 2025/26 Programme can be found here.
Latest Publication
Published in November 2024, A History of Wickham is a new edition of Bruce Tappenden’s 1996 publication updated with new information and the addition of a chapter covering Wickham’s history between 1996 and 2024. Wickham is a special place, with one of the largest surviving medieval village squares in the country, a traditional horse fair and buildings like Chesapeake Mill. Bruce’s history traces Wickham’s history from its very beginnings to todays’ rapidly growing village, putting it all in the context of national developments at the time. The new edition includes an improved index and local photos, maps and diagrams.
For details on how to obtain your copy at the price of £9 please visit the publications page.
