PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Programme 2023–2024
Non-members are welcome to our meetings. At talks there is a small charge of £3 for members and £4 for non-members. Walks are £2 and £3 respectively.
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Meetings and Talks
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2024
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FEBRUARY Tuesday 13th 7.30pm at Museum of Carpet
“Kidderminster Business Improvement District” a talk by James Barker, BID Manager.
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MARCH Tuesday 12th at 6.30pm. Visit to The Holy Innocents’ Church, Sutton Park Road, Kidderminster, talk and tour followed by light refreshments in the Community Hall. Parking on site.
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APRIL Sat 20th. A 'Bluebell walk' in Hurcott Wood. Meet in the car park at 11am off Hurcott Lane - close to the pool.
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MAY Monday 13th at 7.30pm Annual General Meeting at the Museum of Carpet, Green Street. The meeting will be followed by a talk by Jamie Richards the WFDC Conservation Officer.
JULY Monday 1st at 7.30pm at the Museum of Carpet, Green Street. A talk by John Billingham 'Life in the 1950s'.
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SEPTEMBER Saturday 14th Sept Meet at 10.30am – Heritage Weekend in conjunction with the Heritage Opportunity Group (HOGS) 'Guided walk around Kidderminster Cemetery' led by Phil Ginnings. (venue to be confirmed)
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OCTOBER Monday 7th 7.30pm at the Museum of Carpet, Green Street. A talk by John Butterworth ‘Editing the Black Country Bugle'.
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NOVEMBER Monday 11th 7.30pm at the Museum of Carpet, Green Street. Hugh Peacock Chief Executive of Kidderminster Town Council will speak about - a 'view on the town and its future'.
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DECEMBER Tuesday 3rd 7.30pm at Kidderminster Golf Club. Christmas Social. A talk about the history of the Golf Club by Alan Stanyer - Club Captain in 2009 Followed by Seasonal Refreshments. Please book tickets £5 each. Offers of help or contributions of FOOD refreshments - NOT DRINKS as soon as possible please: PLEASE REPLY TO: Jean Talbot: 01562 744055 or use the 'Contact Us' page on our website.
A link to a FORM to book tickets can be downloaded. Please complete and return to Nick Hughes as directed.
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​2025
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FEBRUARY Monday 17th 7.30pm at the Museum of Carpet, Green Street, Kidderminster.
“A river runs through me” a talk by Richard Perrin, Chairman of Bewdley Civic Society. A talk about Bewdley
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MARCH Tuesday 11th at 7.30pm. at the Museum of Carpet, Green Street, Kidderminster.
Ned Williams will present a talk - ‘Looking at Shop Fronts’
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APRIL date to be confirmed. ‘Return to Caldwall Castle’, visit hosted by Richard Davies.
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A Bookable Society Walk for Groups
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A GUIDED 2-HOUR WALKING TOUR OF KIDDERMINSTER Mike Loftus
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From the Gunpowder Plot to the attempted murder of the local MP at the election hustings, from innovation in public health to a deadly typhoid epidemic, international industrial espionage to an exposure of the wretched slave trade. Kidderminster, celebrated as a great centre of carpet manufacture, has so much more to tell.
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Learn a lot about the town by talking out two hour walking tour. In the course of a gentle stroll we will reveal both the warp and the weft of the history of the place.
Contact the Civic Society via our website telling us when you would like to take your tour and we will do our very best to accommodate you.
