DFHS programme and speakers
Meetings are held on the second Monday of each month (except August) at
St John’s Church Centre, Ashley Road, Upper Parkstone, Poole, Dorset BH14 0AA
starting at 8.00pm (unless otherwise stated)
Admission (including refreshments):
£2.00 - Members
(includes immediate family and other members of your household)
£3.00 - Visitors
At most meetings our sales table will be present.
Please do not arrive before 7.30 pm, to allow time for the hall to be set out and our stall holders to park, unpack and display their wares. We will open the doors as soon as we are ready.
If the Church Car Park is full when you arrive, please do not double park or block Emergency Vehicle access, but continue up Churchill Road and follow the signs down Norrish Road, where 200 free parking spaces can be found behind the Co-op store just a few minutes walk away.
St John's Church Centre is opposite Waitrose in Upper Parkstone, on the corner of Ashley & Churchill Roads and is well served by local buses. The Wilts & Dorset M1 and M2 routes leaving Bournemouth (Gervis Place) at 1902, 1910 or 1925, (to Upper Parkstone, Conservative Club) or leaving Poole Bus Station at 1905, 1915 or 1930 (to Upper Parkstone, Co-op) would get you to the meeting in time. Yellow Buses Route 1c leaves both Bournemouth and Poole every 30 minutes.
2012 |
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| 9th January | Tour of Portland – Part two | By Jackie & Mike Smith |
| 13th February | Turnpikes & Dorset Coaching Days The talk will cover the development of roads from Track ways to the Turnpike era. It will also look at the development of the coach as a means of public transport and what it was like to travel on a coach. Concluding with coaching inns and then touches on the events which led to the end of the coaching era. Rob is an experienced tour manager and guide, and is a retired Royal Air Force Officer and South West Tourism Blue Badge Guide. |
By Rob Curtis |
| 12th March | A walk to Granny's House | By David Smith |
| 16th April Note changed date |
My Ancestors were from........... | By DFHS members |
| 14th May | What can we believe? | By Pat Hase |
| 11th June | Streets of Bournemouth | By Professor Vincent May |
| 9th July | Naval Ancestors | By Colin Chapman |
| August | NO MEETING | |
| 10th September | The name game | By Meryl Catty & Audrey Gillett |
| 8th October | Brownsea Island, history, flora & fauna | By Gordon Furnell |
| 12th November | Annual General Meeting & Speed Genealogy |
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| 10th December | Humorous Poetry | By Michael Andrews |
