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Glemsford's Local History Society goes from strength to strength.
New members, a new committee, new ideas and an extended season are building on the framework built over more than a dozen years.

The Society meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month through the autumn and winter, at 7.30 p.m. in the Village Hall.

Everyone is welcome; please encourage friends and heighbours to attend.

Programme: 2004 - 2005

• September 16: President's Evening and Barbecue, preceded by a visit to the Silk Mill, with a guided talk
• October 14: Fred Pawsey: "Suffolk Dialect"
• November 11: AGM, followed by WW2 "I remember when ..." theme; members' talks; artefacts; photographs
• December 9: Clive Paine: "Victorian Christmas"
• January 13: Tom Shaw: "Researching your family tree"
• February 10: David Lee: "East Anglian Wartime Airfields"
• March 10: Peter Minter "A History of Brickmaking"
• April 14:Clive Paine: "The Peasants' Revolt in Suffok"
• May 12: Dr Philip Pantelis: "Buried Treasure in East Anglia"
• June 9: Outing, walk, Cheese and Wine? Any suggestions?

Programme: 2005 - 6

• Thursday 13th October: “Church Bells and their History” Colin Cooke
• Thursday 10th November: AGM, followed by members’ talks
• Saturday 10th December: President’s Evening, hosted by Mr. George Grover , 7.30pm (members only)
• Thursday 12th January: “South Suffolk Cottages & Houses (painting & limewashing)” Ted Ingleby
• Thursday 9th February: “The Zeppelin Raid on Sudbury (March 31st 1916)” Anthony Wheeler
• Thursday 9th March: “The English Civil War in Suffolk (1642 – 1648)” Clive Paine
• Thursday 13th April: “Suffolk Pubs before 1900” Desmond Herring
• Thursday 11th May: “Heraldry” Dr. Geoffrey Heathcote
• Thursday 8th June: A summer’s evening function

Tom Brown

1916 - 2002

Tom Brown, some of whose wonderfully detailed and written memories are featured, with his permission, on these pages, died on 5 July, 2002.

The Society is proud that he accepted the rôle of the first Vice-President of the Society.

As a permanent link with Glemsford's 20th century he will, of course, be badly missed.

Much more importantly, he will be missed, by his family and those who knew him much more closely than I, for his humanity and humility and for the person he was.

Our deepest sympathy to them.