Last Saturday I went to our Cambridgeshire Association for Local History (CALH) public meeting where on of our great committee members - Tony Kirby - gave a fantastic talk all about transport in Cambs from 1900 - 2010. The meeting room was packed out and the talk was just brilliant :) It is so nice to see so many people interested and involved with their local history. At every CALH public meeting we have a speaker, refreshments, a book stall, a raffle and the committee (which includes some of the best local history contacts in the county) are about to answer questions and give advice. We also have a display giving out information, news and leaflets etc. So why not come along to our next meeting!
Saturday 4th December 2010 - the speaker will be Deana Hudson and she'll be giving us a talk entitled
The Mistress, her Maid and the Men in their Lives:

A humorous look at the mid 1850-1900s and ladies underwear and clothing.

You won't want to miss that !!! :)

Plus our new project where we have partnered with the BBC and the programme 'High Street History' is up and running - We inivite you to come along to our December meeting and bring along any memories, old pictures, old receipts etc. of High Streets and shop in and around Cambridgeshire. We will give you free advice on your archives and we'll be creating Memory Walls and all kinds of great things - so please do get involved :)
 


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janet CRAFT
01/08/2011 10:43

I would be interested to know when and where these meetings are taken place
Thanks
Janet Craft

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Michelle Bullivant
01/11/2011 01:48

Hi Janet, The CALH (Cambridgeshire Association for Local History)public/open meetings take place at St John's Hall, Blinco Grove Cambridge, once a month on a Saturday and start at 2.15pm you are more than welcome to come along:) for more details of these talks you can see my Diary Highlights page on here and you should visit the CALH website as they have a fantastic list of all the different open meetings for all the history groups across Cambs
Go to:
http://www.calh.org.uk/preview.htm

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