The meeting on 21st May will be about ‘Houses and History – reading buildings for clues to the past’. The speaker will be Mr David Clark, who arranged the interesting display at Bloxham Museum earlier in the year. This will be the last meeting until September.
The Summer Outing on Sunday 22nd June is to Belvoir Castle, leaving the Elephant and Castle at 9.00am and arriving at Belvoir Castle around noon after a short coffee stop at Melton Mowbray. The coach will return to Bloxham by about 6.30pm. There may be places available to non-members of the History Club. Contact either David Robson or Jill Puckering for details.
At the March meeting John Letts gave a fascinating talk about the history of thatching and all the different methods used. He told us that traditional straw thatch is very thick and the bottom layers are never removed so that it is possible to find medieval seeds in them and work out what was being grown. We learned about the different properties of wheat and reed for thatching and indeed all the other things used around the world from banana leaves to seaweed, heather and gorse. The talk was accompanied by excellent photographs.
If you would like to know more about the History Club visit our website www.bluebellweb.co.uk/history or contact the secretary, Jill Puckering.