Welcome to Worle History Society

Here you will be able to find dates of our monthly open meetings, how to contact the committee, and updates on our latest research and projects.

Membership fee is £5 a year, renewable at the AGM in September each year. Members pay £1 at each meeting to help pay for the hall and boost funds. Visitors are always welcome at meetings and other activities for a modest £2 contribution.

We hope that you like this new layout for our website. It will allow us to add more pages so that more of our archives can be shared with everyone. It took a couple to weeks to sort out, but seems to be Ok now, fingers crossed.

Just click on the menu bar, at the top of each page, to change pages.

LATEST PICTURES CLICK HERE

We meet on the first Thursday of each month at

Worle Community Centre,

Lawrence Road, Worle

Weston-super-Mare,

Somerset

BS22 6TU

Meetings start at 7.00 p.m. Click on 'Meetings' page above for details

Last Meeting Wednesday 21st June 2017

St Martin's Church - Interior memorials

Our research team have been working hard on investigating the 43 memorials within the Church building and presented their findings at the meeting in St Martin's Church. Windows, plaques, tablets were all discussed.

Very good attendance on the hottest June day for 40 years. The picture shows our chairman, Bob Champ and Rev. Anne Farmer melting over the font.

Sincere thanks to the research team for all their exceptional work. The teas went down well, too.

News Bulletin: Worle War Memorial is Grade 2 listed.

Delighted to tell everyone that we received confirmation on 6th June 2017 that our Clock Tower War Memorial has been Grade 2 listed by Historic England. It was the intention of the committee in 1919 to provide a long lasting memorial to remember the people of Worle who gave their lives, and to count the seconds of Peace. Members of Worle History Society have worked tirelessly to secure the listing.

The Historic England reference number is 1446117. The link below gives details of the listing: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1446117

Decided to Join?

Come to a meeting; email or telephone

Email Peter Johnson, our membership secretary

peter.j@talk21.com OR phone Raye Green on 01934 516773 OR

Come along to a meeting. We always have an information desk with Peter and Jenny ready to help. You'll need to part with £5 for your annual subscription and £1 for the meeting. You will get your membership card, programme for the year and a pamphlet with useful info. Welcome to the fun!

What do we do? All this, and make friends!

Walks around Worle and local visits.

Annual walk on the first Thursday in August. 6.30 p.m. followed by supper in a local hostelry. Other local trips of interest.

Meetings 7.00 p.m. on 1st Thurs of month

Range of speakers on topics related to Worle, often with powerpoints showing Old Worle. Quiz in December. All good fun.

Exhibitions from time to time. Pictures, archive files etc

We have put on five exhibitions in the last 3 years to enable everyone to come along and see how Worle has changed.

Research projects indoors and out in the village.

The research group meets regularly, and presents its findings at meetings. Local history rooms in libraries and Somerset Heritage and chatting to our golden oldies.

Archive and Library Open days

Members only, I'm afraid.

Why wait for the next exhibition??

Members can come along to one of our Open Days. Coffee, tea and biscuits available at 2 The Dell, Worle, and we'll guide you through all our archives and 'stuff'. Look at the Archive page to see what's what.

Dates for 2017: All Wednesdays: 10th May; 9th August; 8th November. 10.00 a.m. until 4 p.m.

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Contact us with any information or queries

email us at rayegreen@talktalk.net

or phone us at:

01934 516773

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