About the Society

About The Society

2008/9 Programme
All meetings, unless otherwise advertised, are held in the Church Hall, Church Way, Iffley. Visitors are welcome; they will be asked to contribute £2 towards expenses.

Tuesday 21 October, 7.30pm

MEET AT THE MUSEUM, BROAD ST
Assistant Keeper Stephen Johnston conducts us round the Oxford Museum of the History of Science

Tuesday 18 November, 7.30pm

Speaker Brian Moylan Behind the Octagon Badge - the story of the MG at Abingdon

Tuesday 16 December, 7.30pm

Speaker John Wilson formerly of Cogges Farm Museum, Farming and Village Life in the late 19th century (with artefacts)

Tuesday 17 February, 7.30pm

Speaker Edmund Gray The Evolution of House Design in Iffley and beyond Part 2

Tuesday 17 March, 7.30pm

Vivien Greene Memorial Lecture Speaker Hugo Brunner The Historic Office of Lord Lieutenant (refreshments are served - visitors will be charged £4 for this Lecture)

Tuesday 21 April, 7.30

Speaker Tom Pickles of St Catherine's College The Church in Saxon Times

Tuesday 19 May, 7.30pm

AGM + Slides from our own archives

Summer visit (evening guided tour to a local village) Details to be confirmed.

Aims of the Society

To research in depth the history of Iffley.
To promote interest in that, and related, history
To develop an archive of documents and images, and to act as a repository for records and artefacts
To publish historical material based on the Society's findings

Society Publications
Prices indicated for each publication below do not include postage.

No 1: Iffley, Brunel and the Great Western Railway, John Leigh, O/P.
No 2: Iffley Church and Medieval Life, Ruth Nineham. £2.
No 3: Iffley Water Mill, A History, John Perrott. £3.
No 4: Life Around the Time of the First Millenium, Dennis Nineham. £2.
No 5: Who Built Iffley Church? Ruth Nineham. £2.
No 6: Elizabethan Iffley, Dr Elizabeth Wells, £4.
No 7: The Threat to Iffley Lock by John Perrott and John Leigh, O/P.
No 8: Agricultural Life in Iffley by Susan Bird, £3.
Mrs Nowell's School, Charity Work in Old Iffley, Sheila Fairfield, £3.
Grove House and Its People, £3.

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About The Society
Founded in 1994. Society Committee Chairperson: Elizabeth Wells (01865) 777674, email: empw2@hotmail.com. Secretary: Pat Alexander (01865) 718049, email: patalexander@mac.com. Treasurer: Stuart Bates (01235) 539292, email: sjbates@wenntownsend.co.uk. Membership Secretary: Sir John Grimley Evans, email: john.grimleyevans@geratol.ox.ac.uk. Jean Perrott, John Trumper, Dick Richards, Catherine or Richard Smith (if one can't make it the other will).
Membership Subscriptions Programme Year 2007-2008, due 1 September, £6 per member.
2008/9 Programme All meetings, unless otherwise advertised, are held in the Church Hall, Church Way, Iffley. Visitors are welcome; they will be asked to contribute £2 towards expenses.
2008
Tuesday 21 October, 7.30pm		MEET AT THE MUSEUM, BROAD ST Assistant Keeper Stephen Johnston conducts us round the Oxford Museum of the History of Science
Tuesday 18 November, 7.30pm		Speaker Brian Moylan Behind the Octagon Badge - the story of the MG at Abingdon
Tuesday 16 December, 7.30pm		Speaker John Wilson formerly of Cogges Farm Museum, Farming and Village Life in the late 19th century (with artefacts)
2009
Tuesday 17 February, 7.30pm		Speaker Edmund Gray The Evolution of House Design in Iffley and beyond Part 2
Tuesday 17 March, 7.30pm		Vivien Greene Memorial Lecture Speaker Hugo Brunner The Historic Office of Lord Lieutenant (refreshments are served - visitors will be charged £4 for this Lecture)
Tuesday 21 April, 7.30		Speaker Tom Pickles of St Catherine's College The Church in Saxon Times
Tuesday 19 May, 7.30pm		AGM + Slides from our own archives
June/July:		Summer visit (evening guided tour to a local village) Details to be confirmed.
Previous Programmes
Aims of the Society
* * * *	To research in depth the history of Iffley. To promote interest in that, and related, history To develop an archive of documents and images, and to act as a repository for records and artefacts To publish historical material based on the Society's findings
Society Publications Prices indicated for each publication below do not include postage. No 1: Iffley, Brunel and the Great Western Railway, John Leigh, O/P. No 2: Iffley Church and Medieval Life, Ruth Nineham. £2. No 3: Iffley Water Mill, A History, John Perrott. £3. No 4: Life Around the Time of the First Millenium, Dennis Nineham. £2. No 5: Who Built Iffley Church? Ruth Nineham. £2. No 6: Elizabethan Iffley, Dr Elizabeth Wells, £4. No 7: The Threat to Iffley Lock by John Perrott and John Leigh, O/P. No 8: Agricultural Life in Iffley by Susan Bird, £3. Mrs Nowell's School, Charity Work in Old Iffley, Sheila Fairfield, £3. Grove House and Its People, £3.