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May 27, 2023|News | Reports
Wickham History Society: Annual Report 2022 – 2023
Chair’s Introduction Now we are in our sixties – that is Wickham History Society I mean – we are just starting to get going! Our two-day exhibition on 1st and 2nd of October at Wickham Community Centre was packed on both days and our visitors clearly enjoyed the different exhibitions on all aspects of Wickham’s…
Find Out More »April 30, 2023|Reports
“Violet’s Titanic Escape” – Jane Glennie
Jane Glennie gave a mesmerising performance as Titanic stewardess Violet Jessop, gripping sixty eight members and visitors at Wickham History Society’s April talk. Jane began Violet’s story in 1939 at the eve of the Second World War. She took us back to 1908 when Violet became a stewardess for the Royal Mail line. Violet’s first…
Find Out More »March 31, 2023|Reports
“The Civil War in Hampshire” – Alan Turton
Alan Turton is a military historian who specialises in the English Civil War and was curator at the civil war site of Basing House for twenty four years. On Tuesday 25th March seventy one members and guests of Wickham History Society gathered at Wickham Community Centre to hear about Hampshire’s role in the Civil War….
Find Out More »February 28, 2023|Reports
“The History of Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley” – Ursula Pearce
On Tuesday 28th February Ursula Pearce, the Heritage and Education officer at the Royal Victoria Chapel, gave us the story behind the original hospital that is now Royal Victoria Country Park. A magnificent Victorian hospital dominated the park fronting onto the Solent, with it’s own pier and railway line. 48 members and guests of Wickham…
Find Out More »January 31, 2023|Reports
“Behind the Scenes of ‘Who Do You Think You Are’” – Nick Barrett
There was a real treat for members who Zoomed into the January meeting when Dr Nick Barratt joined about fifty members of the History Society to tell us the story behind the celebrity family history series Who Do You Think You Are? Nick, who is President of Hampshire Genealogical Society, has an amazing number of…
Find Out More »December 8, 2022|Reports
“Domestic Technology: We Had One of Those!” – Stephen Hoadley
Sixty members of the Wickham Society and History Society came to our Christmas get together on Tuesday 6th December. As well as Christmas refreshments, they had an opportunity to go down memory lane with Stephen Hoadley who reminded us about all those essential household appliances of the mid to late twentieth century – the Kenwood…
Find Out More »November 30, 2022|Reports
“The Tragedy of War – Vietnam” – Jeremy Prescott
As part of our remembrance theme in November, we invited Jeremy Prescott back, but we chose a rather different topic. The Vietnam war is one that most people in ‘the west’ now prefer to forget. World politics, and Vietnam, have changed so much over the last half century it is now very difficult to understand…
Find Out More »October 31, 2022|Reports
“More Harlots, less Dung and plenty of Glory?: The history of Portsmouth – Part 3” – Andrew Negus
Andrew Negus returned for a stonking part 3 of his history of Portsmouth, covering the glory days of Portsmouth’s dockyard and the town in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Sixty-one members and guests heard how the introduction of proper sewers saved hundreds or possibly thousands of lives, and how the navy transformed Portsmouth harbour,…
Find Out More »October 31, 2022|News
Wickham Village Life Exhibition – A buzz of activity
508 visitors thronged the WHS Wickham Village Life Exhibition held over the first weekend of October – that worked out at one visitor a minute, with queues to get in at busy times. It has been 59 years since Wickham History Society last held an exhibition, back in 1963. This (much delayed) exhibition marked the…
Find Out More »September 30, 2022|Reports
“Roman Wickham” – Mike Hollis
The first Wickham History Society talk of the 2022-23 Programme returned to Wickham’s early history. It is becoming increasingly clear that Wickham was an important ‘industrial’ Roman settlement. This was highlighted by the recent finds from the Wykeham Vale development, behind School Road. Mike put this in context for an audience of 62 WHS members…
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