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Text Box:   8th January 2009 The Railways of East Bristol   With David Cheesley. David Cheesley's talk will replace George Crates’, and will cover the rail network that allowed local people to catch a train from Staple Hill to Bath, or Bristol, or even Bedminster.  This part of Bristol's rail network closed around 40 years ago.

 

 

Text Box: 12th February 2009 Sawyer Memorial Lecture Sir George Oatley Bristol's outstanding architect, who enhanced our Village Hall With Dr. Sarah Wittingham The Sawyer Memorial Lecture is being given by Dr. Sarah Whittingham of Bristol University. She has just published a book on the life of Sir George Oatley, and she will be talking about his life for us.  Oatley designed the extension to our village hall in the 1930s, as his daughter, Helen Fry, lived in Cedar Hall.  The Village Hall is celebrating its Centenary this year, and this is our way of marking the occasion          

 

 

Text Box: The Frenchay Tuckett Society New Year 2009 Newsletter www.digitalbristol.org/members/gemuse www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk Registered Charity No.1066961  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                              


 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

Text Box: Visiting Exhibitions January  – HEADWAY HOUSE            has a display on work by their patients February  –  PHOTOGRAPHY  by Gordon Blight of Winterbourne. Text Box:   12th March 2009   Frenchay's Quaker Meeting House   With Roger Angerson   Roger Angerson's talk is to mark the Bi-centenary of the present Meeting House, built on the site of an earlier Meeting House.  He will talk about those who were responsible for the new building, as well as the changes that have occurred during those 200 years.   Text Box:  The Museum reopens on Wednesday January 7th 2009 The talks (£1 entry fee) are back in our normal venue –The Quaker Meeting House, Beckspool Road, Frenchay at 7.30pm