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                  TALKS / WALKS  / EVENTS 

Dates  starting to be confirmed more information below and will be updated with posters asap.

Update 23/03/2025  The dates below has been confirmed at the Market house . More information to follow on speakers for talks ,dates for walks , dates for displays .

                                             2025 

     Our Next Talk MAY 23rd 2025   

        APRIL

        MAY         23rd Market house . Talk by David Alder on Secret Stroud.

        JUNE        27th Market house , Chiz Hayward talk on Minchinhampton Parish Church 

        JULY

        AUGUST

        SEPTEMBER 19th Market house  The Strange case of Tom Longs Post , Richard Davis 

         OCTOBER 31st Market house  Ghost Gloucestershire Stories by Kirsty HARTSIOTIS.

         NOVEMBER 7th Market house  Remembrance Talk 

         DECEMBER  19th Market house     Talk / AGM

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MEMBERSHIP NOW AVAILABLE FOR January 2025 to December 31st 2025.

NEW MEMBERS  £12.oo / REJOINING MEMBERS £10.00

                      Joint Membership £20.00

MINCHINHAMPTON LOCAL HISTORY GROUP
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ACCOUNT 01027106
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  With your details or can be paid at any Events / Talks / Walks .by card or cash .

Researching  your family  please feel free to email via Contact us . 

     Please click on the new History Trail link .

      To read about the history trail and to support us ,

      A new history trail for Minchinhampton

Thank you to everyone who has donated to the Minchinhampton History Trail .We have reached our target and beyond with more donations this helps us maintain for future too .     

Thank you 

we have reached the target .

Update on the project will be on here & our face book page in January 2025

         ***  update  work started on 20th January 2025 ***

Thank you for the great support . 

BAYNHAM MEMORIAL FUND 

  APPEAL    

THE MOVE THE MEMORIAL APPEAL FUND launched by Minchinhampton Local History Group When the organ in Holy Trinity was dismantled in December last year prior to its restoration, a wonderful hidden treasure was revealed – an elaborate seventeenth-century memorial to a child, Anne Baynham, who died in infancy in 1632 having ‘not spun out thirty days’. While memorial monuments of this type can be found in many churches, it is extremely unusual – perhaps unique – to find such a memorial to a single infant. One can only surmise that little Anne must have held some special significance for her bereaved parents and one can imagine their pain as they ordered this elaborate monument to the memory of their dead baby. The effigy of Anne on the memorial shows her as a small child dressed in a nightgown with a ruff and with her hand resting on a skull, a type of memento mori much favoured by artists of the time. When the restored organ returns to the church in December, the Baynham Memorial, which has been covered up for over 125 years, will disappear from view again, possibly forever. Minchinhampton Local History Group has taken up the challenge of raising the necessary funds to enable this beautiful and historically important memorial to be removed from the wall and repositioned in the body of the church where both worshippers and visitors can see it and enjoy it in perpetuity. Can you help? To undertake the necessary work, we need to raise around £4,000. This sum has to be raised before September because alterations to the fabric of a church need diocesan Faculty Approval, a process which can take some time. We shall be organising various fund-raising events between now and then, but if you think you’d like to help financially straightaway, please contact MLHG President, Gary Atkinson on gamlhg@outlook.com or the contact us button with a note of how much you’d like to contribute (any contribution, large or small very warmly welcomed). Payments by Cash /Card / Cheque can be made by arrangement by Contacts us button.  Receipts will be issued for all funds received. With your help, the MLHG Move the Memorial Appeal Fund can ensure that this lovely monument is moved and given its proper place elsewhere in the church. Thank you! John Mounsey (MLHG committee member) and Minchinhampton Local History Team. 

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Minchinhampton Transportees

Minchinhampton Transportees by Helen Wright 

OUR LATEST PUBLICATION:

The Great War story of the Stroud Valleys – including Minchinhampton, Brimscombe, Rodborough, Stonehouse, Chalford and the surrounding villages, as well as Stroud itself – is told in contemporary documents, reminiscences recorded over time, and modern research, all vividly illustrated by postcards, photographs and other World War I ephemera. A section explores the Great War from the Minchinhampton Perspective, not just the names on the war memorials but the experiences of those in the town at the time.  A further chapter looks at the development and final abandonment of the Australian Air Force Minchinhampton Aerodrome in the years 1918 – 1919.  The cover depicts the Victory Parade, in July 1919, in Minchinhampton High Street.

The book can be purchased from bookshops in the area or the Museum in the Park.