Christmas Party - 2008

Christmas get-together

Wessex Film and Sound Archive

David brought films from the Wessex Film and Sound Archive, including some local items to show us

Shiplake Lock Island

Comments on an unusual way of life' - Michael spoke about the unique way the Islanders enjoy the open air, river and locality of Wargrave and Shiplake

The Stage Coach Era

Stage coaches used to carry people on longer journeys along the Bath Road and Brian returned to tell us about this way of travelling

The Vyne

The Vyne, Sherborne St. John - the National Trust 16th century house and grounds with its Tudor Chapel

The Wargrave News

The Wargrave News will be 30 years old this year and Tony, who has been involved in its editing and managament, told us of the history and development of our 'village newspaper'

Caversham Park

Two representatives from BBC Monitoring told us about the history of this large imposing house overlooking the Thames and the work of their unit there

Secrets from the Depths

Jill Greenaway, from the Museum of Reading told us about items from the Thames water collection

The Annual General Meeting - 2008

The AGM - a small amount of business followed by 'an item of special local interest' - a first view of some of the Postcards from The Bird Collection

Victorian Earley

In another of our series about the communities around Wargrave, Joan talked about the area that is now modern housing, as it was in the 19th Century

History of English Furniture

David is an experienced cabinet maker, who specialises in restoring English furniture and he told us about this, illustrated by examples he has worked on

Christmas Party - 2007

Christmas get-together