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.

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, or leaving Poole Bus Station at 1905, 1915 or 1930 would get you to the meeting in time. Yellow Buses Route 1c leaves both Bournemouth and Poole every 30 minutes.

If the Church Car Park is full when you arrive, 200 Parking spaces can be found if you continue up Churchill Road and follow the signs down Norrish Road, just a few minutes walk away.


2009

12th January Air and Share
(General Family History Evening)
 
9th February The Undiscovered History of Kingston Lacy
Cancelled due to adverse weather forecast
By David Smith
9th March The Dorset CHUTTERs – Where did they go? By Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard
20th April The 17th Century Plague of Poole By Jenny Oliver
11th May

The Brains Trust

Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard, Brian Galpin and Alan Mead
8th June

The Shadow of the Workhouse

By Pat Hase
13th July

The Enumerator’s Tale

This is an amusing and dramatic presentation, taking the audience back in time to the 1851 Census, where they meet an enumerator and eavesdrop as he interviews one of the householders in his district.

By Audrey Gillett and Meryl Catty
NO MEETING IN AUGUST
14th September A Paddle along the Piddle By Anne and Michael King
12th October Basingstoke to ANZAC – a Marine’s Journey By Martin Willoughby
9th November AGM + Heirlooms  
14th December Dorset Pub Stories By Rob Curtis