Author: Shirley Sinclair

Following a summer break for our Summer Social and Summer Outing, our monthly meetings in the Barlby & Osgodby Methodist Church Hall are back!. We look forward to welcome our guest speaker Malcolm Brooke. Everyone is welcome to attend –

On Tuesday 13 August, several members of the group, together with guests, visited Selby Abbey for a guided tour. It was a very pleasant and informative afternoon. Our Chair, Janet, gave her review of the afternoon ” I think we

There will be no meetings in the church hall in July and August. We will be having our summer social on 9 July 2024 at the Wadkin Arms. On 13 August in the afternoon we will be visiting Selby Abbey

Thank you to Richard Taylor our guest speaker at our June monthly meeting who took us on a virtual tour following in the footsteps of the Georgians around York. Some of the people and places we heard about: The Black

Unfortunately, our speaker Dulcie Lewis who was coming along to give her humorous talk “Not Just Yorkshire Pudding”, has had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances. She hopes to visit us in the future. Our guest speaker will now be

We will be welcoming Celia Barnes, Hambleton History Research & Archive Association to our May meeting. Celia will be giving an interesting talk on the research of Hambleton Village. She tells us there will be one connection with Osgodby Village!.

We are pleased that at the April monthly meeting Eric Jackson will be visiting us. In November, his talk was all about Guy Fawkes. We asked him if he would come along again and share his talk on The Highway

Roland Chilvers is back by popular request! We are pleased that Roland will be bringing along his photographs of 1947 Selby Floods. Everyone enjoyed the meeting when he came along in January to show Osgodby/Barlby in Days Gone By. So

We are aware that at our speaker meetings, we have little opportunity of chatting with people who ask us questions about how to explore local or their family history. So………. we’ve decided to hold “Explore Local and Family History” sessions

We will be putting together Newsletters to keep in touch in between meetings and these will be emailed to members direct on a monthly basis, but will be available for all to read what we are up to via this