Events - Priories Historical Society Talks 2014

Thursday April 3^rd

CONTRACEPTION THROUGH THE AGES by Joan Grundy

This entertaining talk dispels any notion that 20^th century invention. The Greeks, Arabs, Egyptians all used differing – if highly unreliable – methods but some of these led the way for today's modern methods. Hear how Britain lagged behind the rest of the world in discussing contraception and about the pioneering work of Marie Stopes in the 1920s.

Starts 7.30pm at The Innings, Gloucester Road Worksop, S81 0RS

 

Thursday May 1^st 

FOOTPADS, KINGS & HIGHWAYMEN by Ian Morgan, Author

The A1 renowned as being the route from London to Edinburgh has changed its path and even its name many times over the years, yet as the travellers pass on their way do they know just how fortunate they are? Our journey covers just 34 miles as we take the route of the old Great North Road through Nottinghamshire and in that short distance we shall see the scenes of horrific battles, the haunts of highwaymen, the sites of murder and much, much more … get ready for a rollercoaster ride of horror and humour as the stories of this ancient highway unfold.

Starts 7.30pm at The Innings, Gloucester Road Worksop, S81 0RS

 

Thursday June 5^th 

SHERWOOD FOREST & THE DUKERIES by Prof. Ian Rotherham, author.

Sherwood Forest is the most famous historic landmark in world, immortalized through storytelling, mythology and romantic books and ultimately by Hollywood. This is the setting for Robin Hood, Little John, and the rest of the Merry Men. Yet beyond the glamorous legends are equally fascinating places, people and histories. An important and vast medieval forest and extensive heath. Great halls, houses and parks of the aristocracy the so-called Dukery. Then industry, wartime training, and forestry. Richly illustrated with images from the past: photographs, postcards, paintings and antique prints.

Starts 7.30pm at The Innings, Gloucester Road Worksop, S81 0RS

 

AUGUST  2^nd & 3^rd

GREAT WAR DISPLAY 

Worksop Priory, Priorswell Road, Worksop

12.30 onwards 

 

September AGM

 

October 2nd 

TUDOR & STUART SHEFFIELD by David Templeman.  

Gives some idea of how Worksop would have been. The 16^th and 17^th century roots when Sheffield was a small rural town. Talk looks at how the ordinary people lived, worked and played, its surviving buildings from that period and unfortunately the last ones to be demolished, plus how the cutlery industry developed over the centuries.

Starts 7.30pm at The Innings, Gloucester Road Worksop, S81 0RS

 

November6^th
THE HISTORY OF THE LAW IN ENGLAND by Mike Langley our treasurer.
A look at how the law has changed and shaped our Country. Starts 7.30pm at The Innings, Gloucester Road Worksop, S81 0RS

 

December 4^th 

CHRISTMAS PARTY & A VISIT TO LOCAL HISTORICAL SITES by Pam Cook

short presentation including Mattersey; Worksop; Blyth Priories. Carlton & Throapham Churches etc.

Starts 7.30pm at The Innings, Gloucester Road Worksop, S81 0RS

Article - First Women of Steel (Sheffield)

well done for supporting the campaign for a statue to the Women of Steel, who made an often forgotten contribution to the war effort between 1939 and 1945. However, campaigners should not forget the hundreds of women steelworkers who worked during World War One in conditions that were certainly far worse.

My grandmother, Phyllis White from Rawmarsh, was one of them.

As a teenager between 1916 and 1918, she travelled to Templeborough day after day to make shell casings. The work was hard and the air often filled with sulphurous fumes that affected the women’s lungs and coloured their skin yellow. They were sometimes known as ‘the canary girls’.

She rarely talked about those days but I suspect the emphysema that finally killed her was a legacy of that time.

If Sheffield erects a statue which exclusively recognises the women steelworkers of World War Two, it will, in my view, be an everlasting insult to the memory of the female workers of World War One.

Just because that generation is long gone doesn’t mean this city should overlook their vital contribution to the Allies’ victory in 1918.

In 2010, I corresponded with Andrew Skelton, the city’s Public Art Officer, on this matter. In reply, he said: “You are right to point out that women made a significant contribution to manufacture in Sheffield in both World Wars and you are justifiably proud of your grandmother’s contribution. As we envisage it the statue will commemorate both generations and the wider contribution of women to the war effort during both wars.”

And yet as the erection of the Women of Steel statue draws closer, it seems we remain in danger of cruelly ignoring the women steelworkers of World War One.

Neil Theasby, S11

News - Work starts on Sutton war memorial (Sutton-in-Ashfield)

ASHFIELD will finally get a new war memorial to its fallen heroes this summer as work starts after a long campaign.

Around five years of work came to a head on Monday as the first sod was cut at the site of the new monument, on the corner of Mansfield Road and Unwin Road in Sutton.

Campaign group Friends of Ashfield War Memorials raised around £25,000 to get the memorial built.

Said group treasurer Maria Kerry: “It was a marvellous feeling to see the work finally start.

“The campaign has been going on for years but we are finally getting there.”

Recognising British service personnel killed during conflict since 1914, the completed monument will feature an obelisk and garden.

It will be officially unveiled with a special ceremony in June.

On Monday group members and local people who have donated cash to the scheme saw NMC Nomenca, part of the Huthwaite-based North Midland Construction group, start work.

The company is among firms offering their services for free to get the monument built, while local councillors have also given thousands of pounds in funding towards the scheme.

Added Mrs Kerry: “The memorial itself is done, the railings are being finished and the plaques are done, we can’t wait for it to be ready.”

From: http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/work_starts_on_sutton_war_memorial_1_3156874