Dr Ray Asher introduced Stewart Hofgartner, from Below Stairs Antiques of Hungerford, as our speaker Monday (28th April) evening.  Antiques were brought along to the meeting by Mr Hofgartner and the audience.  Mr Hofgartner walked through and identified the items, which included a Georgian Cream Jug, Sheep bells Flaggans and watches.  A background to the items and how to identify some of the items was given.  Mr Hofgartner also showed examples of his recent purch

Lionel Williams, from Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre, gave a talk on the history of the hospitals of Reading which date from 1121AD.  Reading Abbey in 1121 under Henry I were amongst the first to treat the sick within Reading, probably the monks were the primary patience and/or carers.  This is now part of Reading Jail.  Outside of London there were few places for the treatment of the sick, especially the poor.

Thanks so much for well publicising Part I of Bron, which is selling well locally.  If you bought a copy, I hope you enjoyed it.

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We have started to transfer some of our paper records of the gravestones in St. Mary's (Thatcham) Churchyard to a searchable/browsable database available via this website (click here).  This is currently experimental and has a limited amount of data.  We are still working on the layout/presentation as well as entering all of the data.  This is jsut to give you a taste of what is to come.  The aim is the records for St. MAry's will be fully transferred and set-up by the summer.