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.


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2012

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
 
10th December Humorous Poetry By Michael Andrews