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2021/22 Programme of Events

Broadway History Society
2021/22 Programme of Events

All meetings will take place in the Lifford Memorial Hall, Lower Green, Broadway, starting at 7pm.

Membership costs £10 per person, non-members £3 on the door.

Monday 13th September 2021 

Broadway’s National School – a talk by Elizabeth Eyre

Monday 18th October 2021

Seeds of Victory, The First World War – a talk by Robin Goldsmith

Monday 15th November 2021

John Singer Sargent’s ‘Portrait of Sisters’ – a talk by Dr Malcolm Rogers CBE

Monday 13th December 2021

Gordon Russell Ltd & the People Involved – a talk by Martin Blakeman

Monday 17th January 2022

History of Luggers Hall –  a talk by Roger Dudley

Monday 21st February 2022

500 Years of Broadway Maps – a talk by David Ella

Monday 21st March 2022

A Working Man’s Castle, the History of the Fleece Inn, Bretforton – a talk by Nigel Smith

Monday 25th April 2022

History of the Coventry Family and Broadway Tower, the Completion of the 6th Earl’s Dream of Perfection – a talk by Jill Tovey and Tim Hickson

Monday 16th May 2022

Annual General Meeting and Farnham House, Watching the World Go By – a talk by John Noott

Snapshots of Victorian Broadway (The People of The Census Returns)

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Left to right: Eliza A. Morris, Jane Morris (née Phillips), Joseph W. Morris (back row), John Morris (front row) and Mary A. Morris. Photo c1900: Tom Morris

Following the Society’s 2017 Annual General Meeting on Monday 15th May, Broadway History Society Committee Member, Geoff Sanders, will be giving an illustrated talk depicting the wealth of information, and the pitfalls that might be encountered when researching the seven decades of the Broadway Census Returns from 1841 to 1901.

The progression through the decades follows one prominent villager, John Morris1 (the first resident Minister of Broadway Congregational Church) and his descendants, with explanations and interpretations of the vast amount of information available from the censuses. Geoff’s talk will illustrate how a census return can be littered with errors and ‘red herrings’. He will explain how published pages often reflect third-hand information with spoken names being written by the census enumerators rather than the householders which, combined with the local ‘Broddy’2 dialect, led to some interesting entries and interpretations.

The 2017 AGM and Geoff’s talk will be held in the Lifford Hall Parlour, Lower Green, Broadway, on Monday 15th May 2017 starting at 7pm. Refreshments will be served at the end of the AGM before Geoff’s talk which is expected to start around 7.30pm. All welcome. Non-members £3 on the door.

Broadway History Society
May 2017

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Notes:
1. John Morris (1784-1864), father of Joseph Wilson Morris (see above photo), was ordained as the first resident Minister of Broadway Congregational Church (now Broadway United Reformed Church) in 1816. He resigned in 1825 to set up his grocery and drapery business.
2. ‘Asum’ grammar for Broadway.

15th May 2017: Annual General Meeting and Talk by Geoff Sanders on ‘Snapshots of Victorian Broadway (The People of The Census Returns)’

Our second Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 15th May in The Parlour of the Lifford Memorial Hall starting at 7pm.

After the AGM, Committee Member, Geoff Sanders, will give an illustrated talk on Victorian Broadway. Geoff has been researching the census returns for Broadway and his talk will refer to his research and the information that can be obtained from a census.

Refreshments will be served during the meeting. All welcome, non-members £3.

The AGM and Geoff’s talk is the last in the series of talks for 2016/2017. Our next meeting will be held on Monday 18th September with a talk by Keith Cattell entitled On a Wing and a Prayer – The Cathedral Builders.



2017 Annual General Meeting

broadway-history-societyThe Society’s 2017 Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 15th May 2017 starting at 7pm in Broadway Methodist Church Hall.

After the AGM, Committee Member Geoff Sanders, who has studied the 1881 and 1901 censuses of Broadway, will give a talk on Snapshots of Victorian Broadway (The People of the Census Returns).

All welcome. Non-members £3.

AGM and Talk on ‘Broadway’s High Street’

Our first Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 16th May 2016 in the Parlour in the Lifford Memorial Hall, Broadway.

During the meeting our Treasurer, Mary Smith, will be giving an illustrated talk on ‘Broadway’s High Street’.

All welcome. Non-members £3.