OUR 2014 season began on the February 3 with a wellattended presentation, by Tony Green, on Restoring an historic Redditch-made battery for the Kempton Great Engines Trust and the story of Nickel-Cadmium Battery Manufacture in the town.

After tea/coffee and biscuits, future activities were discussed. These included the final part of our History of Redditch exhibitions covering the period from 1964, when Redditch was declared a New Town to the present time. This will be at Forge Mill Museum from March 12 to 30 and again at Redditch Library during the week following our heritage event at the library on July 26.

We will be having our heritage day at Forge Mill Needle Museum on June 1 and will be present at the five Saturday bandstand festival days and the Morton Stanley Park Festival weekend. We have 10 more meetings for 2014 and two outside visits and will be active in other events throughout the year related to the town’s 50-year anniversary.

As we have now outgrown the room size at Forge Mill Museum, future meetings will be in the meeting room at Redditch Library. Our next meeting is on March 3, at 2pm and will be a talk by Graham Downie, chairman of the Fairground Association of Great Britain, on the ‘Fairground Calendar: the pattern of the showman’s year’.

For further details of the Local History Society please ring Tony Green at 01527 61434 or visit our website redditchhistorysociety.

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