Group Programmes

Arts, Crafts & Music Group
Originally “The Ceramics and Decorative Arts Group”, we have speakers who show slides and often demonstrate crafts or illustrate talks with music.

Gardening Group
There is a wide range of gardening experience within the group, the link between us is a love of plants and wanting to know more about how to grow them.

Local History Research Group
The purpose of this group is to encourage research into local history and to learn about the work that is ongoing and that has been completed.

Local Studies Group
The Local Studies Group covers a wide range of topics, not just of relevance to the immediate Nailsworth area but within the county as a whole.

Ramblers Group
The group meets on the 4th Thursday of each month Feb-Nov for a 4-5 mile walk. See the Notice Board in the Library foyer for details, one week beforehand.

Theatregoers Group
See the Notice Board in the Library Foyer for dates of our 10-12 theatre outings each year and for booking arrangements..

Welcome to Local History Research

The purpose of this group is to encourage research into local history and to learn about the work that is ongoing and that has been completed.

Meetings are held on the second Monday of most months and usually take place in the Mortimer Room adjacent to the public library in Nailsworth. They begin at 7.30pm and last about two hours. Society members pay £1 per meeting, non members £3.

There are also visits to places of local interest. The Group usually participates in the Gloucestershire Local History Committee’s annual competitive exhibition. An invitation is offered by Cotswold Archaeology to their annual lecture.

Group Leader:  Anthony Burton (01453 832228) email@

MEETINGS FOR 2013

2nd Monday in the month, 7.30pm


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11th February

WW1 Voluntary Aid Detachments in Glos
– Pamela Tawse

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11th March

Memories of Researching Local History
- Russell Howes


8th April
Recent Research of Lydney Harbour and hulks
- Paul Barnett


13th May

Grand Houses,
Grand People

members research for county exhibition on 5th October


10th June

Beauty in the Bathhouse in Roman Britain
- Cherry Hubbard

(Joint meeting with WI in Parish Rooms)


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14th October
'Memories of Watledge' to include 'A Watledge Childhood' of Freda Rose (nee Powell)




11th November

Invisible People:
married women in history

David Smith



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VISITS & OUTDOOR EVENTS FOR 2013


Wednesday 27th March

'Childhood in Roman Pompeii’
presented by Professor Ray Laurence, University of Kent

Cotswold Archaeology Annual Lecture
Bingham Hall, Cirencester, 7.30pm


Saturday 13th April

Annual Conference of the Committee for Archaeology in Glos

Gloucester


Thursday 2nd May

Visit from Tetbury Local History Society
tour and
W H Davies



Saturday 6th July


Glos Local History Association
Regional Meeting
Stonehouse


Saturday 5th October


Glos Local History Association
Societies Day
Grand Houses