THE BROMSGROVE Society will hold its annual Summer School next month.
On July 11, Tim Bridges will take participants on a virtual tour of the Churches of Bromsgrove and District and to a church of his choice in the afternoon.
Also on July 11, Julian Hunt will give a new slant on the life of AE Housman using the poet’s published letters as source material.
He will be joined by Gregory Leadbetter, of Birmingham City University, talking about the newly acquired letters from AE Housman to his godson Gerald Jackson.
On July 12, Sarah Bradley of Belbroughton History Society will illustrate how the Belne Brook powered a multitude of corn mills, gun-barrel mills and scythe forges. She will be joined by Julian Hunt who will survey each mill site on the stream.
Also on July 12, Pat Tansell will be showing how Bromsgrove featured on early Maps of Worcestershire.
She will be joined by Richard Oliver of the University of Exeter, who will explain how the Ordnance Survey transformed map-making in England.
In the afternoon they will visit Bromsgrove Library to examine the newly deposited collection of Ordnance Survey maps.
And on July 13, Jenny Townsend and Julian Hunt will look at Great Houses Around Bromsgrove, when they were built and who lived in them.
In the afternoon, students will have an opportunity to visit Housman Hall and other imposing Bromsgrove houses.
Pat Tansell will also describe ‘Bromsgrove on the Eve of War: Our Town and District in 1939’ on July 13, using local newspapers, rarely seen archive material and other resources, to show how the district prepared for conflict in 1939.
Visit www.bsoc.co.uk/summerschool or call Chris Nesbitt on 01527 877227 for more information.
