Local History Group April Meeting

Written by Andy Bolam

The theme for this month was the gravestones in Marton’s churchyard and the group was fortunate to choose the only dry evening in April to pay a visit to this source of local history. For further information on this topic click here.

Other items covered at the meeting:

1. Next meeting 28th May: walk around Southam’s historic sites. Further details nearer the time. Please let David Fry know if you plan to attend and have not already notified him.

2. Birdingbury Local History Group open day Saturday 5th May, 10am-4pm in “The Club”

3. The Willoughby Society have a heritage day on 16th June

4. Gravestone project: Ways to present the gravestone plans and information will be discussed at the AGM in June. (What should we do with the recorded information about gravestones that has been digitised and organised by Angie? How can we make it easier for individual graves to be identified?)