UPCOMING SPEAKERS FOR 2025
HISTORY GROUP SPEAKERS FOR 2026
SUMMER FETE – 30 JUNE 2024
The display stand at the Coddington Summer Fete. Considerable intetest was shown in the material on display.
CODDINGTON HISTORY GROUP (CHG)
CHG is a membership group formed in 2003 by residents of Coddington Village near Newark in Nottinghamshire.
It is not exclusive to residents though and the idea behind the Group is to:
- bring together those interested in Coddington’s history and provide a forum and focus for village research
- collect and curate information about the village and its history (its people, institutions, buildings and environment), ensuring knowledge is retained for posterity and available in publications
- promote an interest in history (especially of local and family history) within the village by organising activities, talks and exhibitions for members and for local residents, visitors and Coddington School
- encourage the view that our heritage should be valued and preserved
- support other local and national groups with similar aims.
CODDINGTON HISTORY GROUP
Why not visit the History Group web page at www.coddington.org.uk
History Group News
Somewhat incredibly, this year is the 20th year since History Group was formed, hopefully we’ll be able to do something to mark the occasion.
Our monthly speaker meetings have been a bit unpredictable lately; in November we learnt two days beforehand that the speaker was in hospital! Rather than phone around in a panic, I decided we’d show our copy of the Lincoln-based ‘Blow by Blow Productions’ DVD “The Ruston in the Blue Lagoon” – the story of the rescue from a flooded brick quarry of the world’s oldest steam driven dragline excavator. Those of you who visited the Museum of Lincolnshire Life many moons ago will recall it rusting gently in the courtyard behind the museum. Good news is that now it’s restored again and can be seen working at Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum near Keswick. It’s an epic sight – and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the unexpected subject change of the evening. See www.threlkeldquarryandminingmuseum.co.uk.
As if that wasn’t enough, in January with one day’s notice – we discovered the speaker was off work sick! Luckily I had recently bought the next ‘Blow by Blow’ DVD “A Farmer Looks Back” – that we were yet to watch. It’s farmer Keith Toule’s recollections from 75 years of farming and even better it turned out to be a long DVD so I’ve still got some of it left for the next emergency!
On the plus side – it eases the job of finding speakers for the Autumn programme! Fingers crossed for the March speaker’s health and well-being, it’s the ever popular Stephen Gay with his wonderful slides (and they are slides not digital) and entertaining talk. Do come along.
Isobel Turner. Tel 708781, email iturner@coddington.org.uk