Friends' speakers

SPEAKERS AT PAST FRIENDS OF WELWYN HATFIELD MUSEUMS' MEETINGS

2003

Welwyn Archaeological Society – Tony Rook

Hatfield House Gardens & Museum of Gardening – Polly Bishop

Cuffley Airship – John Higgs

Cecil Family & Hatfield House – Robin Perkins

2004

Windmills and watermills – Robin Webb

De Havilland & Salisbury Hall – Philip Birtles

Knebworth House – Clare Fleck

De Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth – Stuart McKay

17th-Century food ­– Caroline Rawle & Sarah Adamson

Democracy in Welwyn Hatfield – Grant Shapps

Curiosities and customs in the City of London – Paul Taylor

Home Guard in Hertfordshire ­– Col John Sainsbury

Policing in central Hertfordshire – Steve Ottaway

A day in the life of a Thames tug – Richard Thomas

2005

Wheathampstead excavation – Simon West

Education in Hertfordshire – Donald Fisher

Beekeeping – Malcolm High

Queer, quaint and quirky of Hertfordshire – Ken Cain

Commons Nature Reserve – Peter Oakenfell

Waterways’ wonder – Richard Thomas

A Weaver at Waterloo – Anne Grimshaw

The Work of the Royal Veterinary College – Virginia Fisher

Walking the Lea – Ken Cain

Santiago de Compostella by Bicycle – Dermot Wynn

2006

History of St Albans Abbey – Jane Kelsall

Early days in WGCity and Hatfield – Ken Wright

Wine grapes and wine making – David Howgego

Countryside matters: the work of CPRE – Kevin Fitzgerald

Last flight of Lancaster LL919 – Anne Grimshaw

From clay to wax – Paul Bainbridge

Cuffley Story – Michael Clark and Patricia Klijn

St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London – Len Phillips

Are politicians ever to be trusted? – Sir Philip Mawer

Subterranean Hertfordshire – Andrew Smith

2007

Bone, straw and paper: the work of French prisoners of war – Paul Chamberlain

History of Chicksands Priory – Doreen Hoare

Digital TV – John Middleton

Literary figures of Hertfordshire – Hazel Bell and David Steed

Bats – Roger Havard

Roman latrines – Don Porter

Oriental carpets – Ron Stewart

Origami – Mark Bolitho

Antarctica – John Perren

Ghostly Hertfordshire – Damien O'Dell

2008

The centenary of the Hertford Road – Tony Rook

Welwyn Garden City Heritage Trust and Hatfield in World War II – Tony Skottowe

Living with an archaeologist –  Merle Rook

Hertfordshire villages – John Neal

A brief history of time-keeping – Geoffrey Hollis

A thousand years of English churches: the work of The Churches Conservation Trust – Chloe Cockerill

Treasure or trash? How to identify artefacts -- Julian Watters

Corn dollies -- Jane Woolman