Stonor House

This year we had a private guided tour of Stonor House - a fascinating collection of medieval buildings behind a Georgian facade in Oxfordshire, and home of the Camoys family for 850 years

Historic Village Walk

As part of the Wargrave Festival, the Society organised one of its historic walks around the village

Suttons Seeds

Gerry was a long term employee of Suttons Seeds and showed us two films about the work that went on there - one of the 3 'B's' of Reading

The Old Bath Road

Tony returned to give us another of his presentations, this time taking us on a journey along the historic Old Bath Road from London as far as Reading

The Annual General Meeting - 2011

The AGM

History of Domestic Lighting

Trevor returned to give us another of his informative - and illuminating talks

The Secret Thames

Duncan - who worked with the Environment Agency - told us about less obvious aspects of the Thames

Christmas Party - 2010

Christmas get-together and 'What do you think this is?' - questions and some answers

A Woman in Wax

Tony told us about Madame Tussaud and the famous waxworks

The Robert Piggott Junior School

David is a former Headmaster of our village junior school and recounted some of his memories from his time on School Hill. Chris Wood worked with another former Headmaster, Adrian Downton and recalled that period as well

The Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals

The Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals - Marshall Barr, Chairman of the Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre told us about the history of the principal hospital for our area

Science Museum at Wroughton

This year we arranged for a visit to the rarely open Science Museum site at Wroughton, including the large object store and archives there