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Meeting Dates

The Spondon Historical Society meet regularly at Spondon Village Hall for a variety of talks, presentations and discussions.

Meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday of each month and start at 7.30pm. Anyone is welcome to come along to the meetings with visitors paying a small admission charge. Details of our forthcoming meetings are as follows:

 

Vic Hallam: the history of this popular local building company, by Robert Mee

AGM, followed by History of Buses in Spondon, by John Fookes

Food and drink in Tudor times: hear how diffrent the food was compared with ours, by Mark Dawson

Village Open Gardens Weekend: Archive exhibition in the Village Hall

Ilkeston Electric Tramway: the first in Derbyshire 1903-1931, by Stephen Flinders

No meeting

History of Railway Modelling, by Neil Johnson

An Introduction to Heraldry, by John Titterton.  Heraldry can be seen in many places and has developed over the last 800 years

Season's Greetings: stories of the Festive Season, by Ann Featherstone