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All talks take place at Lowdham WI Hall and start at 7.30 and are followed by tea or coffee afterwards. New members and guests always welcome.

Feb 24  
Karen Winyard - In and out of Wedlock

This talk looks at the movement to reform the legal system for married women’s rights and four women in Nottinghamshire who contributed to the groundswell of public opinion.

Mar 24  
Matthew Lymn-Rose
117 Years of Saying Goodbye

Matthew is Managing Director and great-great-grandson of the founder of A.W. Lymn, the Family Funeral Service since 1907. He will talk about the way we have mourned in the United Kingdom for generations, and how his family business came to being.  He will cover modern ways of celebrating lives, and how the business has changed over the years, and the work they have done over five generations.

Apr 28  
Keith Small – The River Trent in History and in Life

The River Trent starts at the source in North Staffordshire and takes us on a journey to its outfall into the Humber Estuary and the North Sea. During this journey we look at some of the landscape features and historical events that have made this river one of the most important and influential waterways in the history of Britain

May 15
Visit to the Nottingham City Museums & Galleries Store, Bobbers Mill

A sneak peek behind the scenes at the Nottingham City Museums & Galleries off-site storage facility. We will tour three units, containing industrial history, social history and archaeology collections, seeing everything from a Nottingham built Swift & Wass curtain lace machine, to material from Raleigh, Cropper, Players and everyday items such as radios, telephones, bricks and mangles!

Sat Jun 21
Visit to Rolls-Royce Hucknall Flight Test Museum

This exciting new museum, located on the former historic Hucknall Airfield site in Nottinghamshire, celebrates the remarkable legacy of the Rolls-Royce Hucknall Flight Test Establishment, featuring test engines from the site, the John Housley model collection, archive documents with original films and photographs telling the unique history of Rolls-Royce flight and ground testing from 1934 to Test Facilities’ final closure in the 1990’s – see more at https://huftm.com/.

Our visit will last 2-3 hours and starts at 10 with a tea/coffee and a presentation, followed by a guided tour round the museum.

Jul 15  
Guided tour of Shardlow and the Heritage Centre

A visit to Shardlow and its Heritage Centre for a fascinating insight into this 18th century canal transshipment port. We will be guided around the village to see many of the older buildings and hear all about the history.

Sep 22  
Ann Featherstone - Mashed potato sandwiches and bottle top tinsel

Rose Buckner's post-war world of home-making - A fascinating look at homemaking, parenting and cooking in times of austerity as shown by Rose Buckner, who wrote about it in her book and columns for the Sunday People newspaper.

Oct 27  
Laura Parker – The Archeology of Nottingham Castle

The talk will give a review and findings of the excavations that took place during the renovation of Nottingham Castle 2014-2018.

Nov 24  
Maureen Taylor – Bess of Hardwick

Was Bess of Hardwick ‘avaricious, ambitious, masculine in deeds and thoughts’ as thought of for years after her death, or was she ‘sociable, friendly, vivacious, caring only for her family’ as described in her lifetime? Today, she is possibly regarded as a social climber or just interested in rich men to marry. She married into the social levels in which she found herself in.