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Bromsgrove Rousler 2024

Rousler Cover 2024The latest edition of the Bromsgrove Rousler, the popular local history magazine, is now available. The 2024 edition – number 39 in the series – features a fascinating mix of personalities and events that have helped shape Bromsgrove’s history.

Topics in this year’s Rousler are:

  • Eddie Palmer: The Epic Story of a Boy Seaman
  • The Caulcott Sisters
  • All Saints Church: Celebrating 150 Years
  • Webbs: A Local Success Story
  • Forty Years of the Bromsgrove Methodist Church Centre
  • Bromsgrove in Old Postcards.

Members will receive their copies shortly. Find a local stockist.
See here to purchase the Rousler from our online bookstall (leaves this website)

Rouslers make an ideal Christmas present, especially for friends now living elsewhere.
Back issues and a wide variety of books can be bought through our online bookstall.

Latest Newsletter

The Bromsgrove Society Newsletter

 Sept2024

The September 2024 issue of the Society's newsletter is now available, containing details of:

  • Avoncroft Open Air Art Competition
  • Court Leet Archives Launched
  • Familiar Lives in Bromsgrove Project
  • Heritage Open Days
  • Town Centre Improvement Works
  • Worcestershire on Demand
  • ..and more!

Click the links to download the September Newsletter (PDF format).

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Annual Lecture Now Online

 
Alastair Moseley's lecture on the history of the Wychbold masts is now available on our YouTube channel.

The long-wave radio masts at Wychbold, near Droitwich were erected in 1934. With plans announced to decommission the masts by 2027, Alastair Moseley of the Bromsgrove Society looks back at their history, as well as campaigners' hopes to preserve the masts for future generations.

This presentation was given at Routh Concert Hall, Bromsgrove School on Tuesday 9th April 2024, as the 37th Annual Bromsgrove Lecture. In the presentation, Alastair describes how the BBC Transmitters came to be located near Bromsgrove, explains their role, and why they have been important, both nationally and internationally, for the past 90 years.

The presentation includes the 1935 film "Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter", by John Griegson. A high-resolution version of the film is available at the British Film Institute website.

Society Review 2023-24

The Bromsgrove Society’s AGM was held at Avoncroft Museum on Wednesday 3rd July 2024 at 7.30pm. Twenty-eight members attended.

The Chairman, Jo Slade, read her review of the year, thanking the committees and society members for their work and support in what had been another successful year. John Gerner gave a review on environment matters and Chris Nesbitt delivered her final review as chair of the Local History Group. Chris was thanked for all her contributions and was given a token of appreciation. The reports are  available here. Members agreed to give the Executive Committee authority to sign off the Annual Accounts which were still to be finalised. They will be made available on the website.

Members re-elected the officers and committee members: Chairman Jo Slade, Vice-Chairman Pat Tansell, Treasurer Julian Dyer, Secretary Sue Beaumont, Membership Secretary Sue Skidmore, Executive Committee John Gerner, Julian Hunt, Alastair Moseley and Mike Sharpe. Mike agreed to chair the Local History Group.

After the meeting Helen Voyle gave a very interesting talk about her work in cataloguing boxes of documents relating to the Court Leet going back to the 1700s. She related fascinating anecdotes taken from letters, which gave some idea of the people involved, their attitudes and activities in days gone by.

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