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Meets every 2nd Tuesday in the month at 7 30 pm at Barlby and Osgodby Methodist Church Hall (rear room)

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A virtual tour from the comfort of a chair! – 14 March 2023

Our next meeting will be held on 14 March 2023 at 7 30 pm in the small rear room at Osgodby Village Institute. Everyone welcome. Members free. Visitors £2 per person. We will be having a virtual tour of the

Shirley Sinclair 2 March 20232 March 2023 News Read more

Heritage Trail Information Boards are in situ and Heritage Trail Leaflet available

When we submitted our plan to the Heritage Lottery Fund, what feels like many moons ago, we planned a booklet, together with information boards around the village to share the findings of our research. The idea of a Heritage Trail

Shirley Sinclair 16 February 202316 February 2023 News Read more

Skeletons in the cupboard revealed at our February meeting

It was great to see members and visitors at our February monthly Meeting, our first as a constituted Group. Shirley shared her family “skeletons in the cupboard” as the talk for the evening. We also chatted about future meetings and

Shirley Sinclair 16 February 202316 February 2023 News Read more

Meeting 14 February 2023

We are looking forward to our February meeting. All welcome to come along Members free Visitors £2 per person Shirley Sinclair will be our speaker. She will be sharing her “skeletons in the cupboard” she found when researching her family

Shirley Sinclair 26 January 202326 January 2023 News Read more

“Granny’s Kitchen” – Meeting 10 January 2023

We look forward to the New Year and organising meetings for 2023. We are delighted that our first meeting on 10 January 2023 has local historian and author David Lewis coming along to share his tale of a chance find

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Ho Ho Ho – and a merry time was had by all

Christmas Social – some members of the Group had a Christmas social get-together and had a great night at The Wadkin Arms. We put on a good spread, so much so, we invited everyone in the pub to help themselves

Shirley Sinclair 27 December 202227 December 2022 News Read more

Brains at the ready….

Some members of the Group go quizzing at the Wadkin Arms (when the Quiz Night does not clash with a monthly meeting). It’s a fun night, and it’s the taking part that counts! If you want to join us, please

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Lest we forget

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:  Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them In October 2021, we

Shirley Sinclair 11 November 202211 November 2022 News Read more

Moving on up ……..

At our monthly meeting in November, we had an update on various “business” including having a quick look at the revised Heritage Trail. We await the installation of the interpretation/information boards by the Barlby & Osgodby Town Council. We then

Shirley Sinclair 11 November 202211 November 2022 News Read more

Aerial Photographs and “Then and Now Postcards” now available to buy!

As part of our Heritage Funded Project, we had a drone visit us for a morning taking aerial photograph and videos to record Osgodby in 2022. The Group had to decide on just 3 out of nearly 200 photographs to

Shirley Sinclair 6 November 20226 November 2022 News Read more
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