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REPTON VILLAGE HISTORY GROUP

NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 10 – MARCH 2005

 

OUR FEBRUARY MEETING

At our well attended February meeting we displayed a large amount of material which included documentary archives, old Trade Directories on microfiche, details of very old school log books, results of research into specific subjects and a display of recently acquired photographs. These included the opening of the new village hall in 1970 and of the Summer Fetes of 1968 and 1970. All of these combined to make a very interesting and informative meeting. Details of our web site were also shown on a lap top computer. 

We are very grateful to the visitors who brought along personal photographs for us to see and copy.   These covered several subjects and included one of a class at the village school dating from around 1910 and another of school children with WWII gas masks. Others showed the school VE Day party of 1945 and a children’s Fancy Dress party at the Vicarage dated around 1949. All of these will be used in future displays. 

We would remind you that as from our April meeting, we will have the third Tuesday of the month as our normal meeting date. Any variations will be notified. 

OUR PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS FOR THE REMAINDER OF 2005 IS:

NEXT MEETING 19TH APRIL  In July 1843, William Astbury came to stay in Repton, he lived there until October of the same year and during that time visited many places and met a great number of people. His diary gives a fascinating insight into village life in those far off days. The Repton part of Astbury’s diary is just a small section of the whole work which is housed in the Cheshunt Foundation at Westminster College, Cambridge. Our speaker in April is the Revd. Dr Stephen Orchard who is the Principal of Westminster College. Dr Orchard has spent many years transcribing the whole of Astbury’s Diary which is now complete (600,000 words) Stephen is a family historian of long standing and is related to the Orchard family of Repton, one of the oldest families in the village and has carried out a lot of research into that branch of his family history. Our April talk will give an insight into why William Astbury came to Repton.  

FURTHER APPEAL FOR SCHOOL AND OTHER OLD PHOTOS.

If anyone has any further Village School photos or indeed any that they think will be of interest to the group, please bring them along to our meetings.

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