Community and history for the over 50s........
All meetings at Brackenfield Church Hall from 10:30 to 12:30 £3.00 admission (includes tea/coffee and cake) - If this will be your first visit, please contact Mike on 01773 521557 or 07940 510531
Tuesday 6th November: Doug Bradbury (MBE): Life and Times of a Farrier
Based in Clay Cross and curator of his own museum, Doug received his MBE in recognition of his work as a senior examiner and trainer of apprentices and has many tales to tell of his life working with horses (including pit ponies).
Tuesday 11th December: Martha Lawrence: Brackenfield Pottery Martha is Curator of Archaeology at Sheffield Museum. She will be bringing some of the finds from the 1972 excavation of pottery kilns at Woolley.
Tuesday 8th January: Richard Booth: Ashover Light Railway. Richard is Chairman of the Ashover Light Railway Society and he will be giving a presentation about the history of the railway.