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the history of Arnold at Town 4 miles from Nottingham Uk

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Nottinghamshire Local History Association

https://nlha.org.uk/speakers-and-presentations/

Other Speakers

Speaker List
	DANNY WELLS Telephone: 01335 350536 Mobile: Email: danny.wells@history-talks.co.uk Website: www.history-talks-co.uk More Details: www.nlha.org.uk/news/danny-wells/ Topics: Art of the Garden The English and Gardening Joseph Paxton Art of the Christmas Card The Victorians and the Christmas Season
James Wright	JAMES WRIGHT Telephone: Mobile: Email: jpwarchaeology@hotmail.co.uk Website: Topics: A Palace For Our Kings Rock of Ages, Medieval Stone Masons TattershallCastle William Shakespeare Henry V and the Manipulation of History Historic Graffiti Castles of Nottinghamshire Ritual Protection Marks at Knowle, Kent

Stephen Flinders	STEPHEN FLINDERS Telephone: 0115 854 8373 Mobile: 07791709499 Email: stephenflinders@sky.com Website: Topics: Terror from the Skies – January 1916 the night the Zeppelins came Catherine Crompton’s Diary The Life and Travels of Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker A Family History Presentation along the lines of ‘Who Do You Think You Are? Stanton-Gone but not Forgotten The History Beneath Our Feet A Taste of Tudor Ilkeston Stanton on Film Stanton at War 1939-1945 Owd Ilson
Robert Mee	ROBERT MEE Telephone: 0115 932 7495 Mobile: Email: RobertMMee@btinternet.com Website: Topics: Nottinghamshire Castles A Derbyshire Railway Outing: A railway tour using a 1920s timetable. Aldercar and Langley Mill – 1000 Years in 60 Minutes Derbyshire Associations for the Prosecution of Felons, 1703-2014: Policing in 19th-Century Derbyshire Bradshaw’s, and an Early Railway Tour: the famous railway timetable, and a mystery tour! Derbyshire’s Castles Vic Hallam – One Man and his Company: from the 1920s to the 1990s Crime in Langley Mill 1891 – 1930 Morlestan – South East Derbyshire before the Norman Conquest A History of Smalley: from medieval times to modern open-casting. Wheels of Industry – Langley Mill History along the Erewash Valley Trail A Potted History of Heanor: the name says it all really HeanorGrammar School: Its history from beginning to end! Mine’s a Pint: Public Houses in the Heanor Area
Chris Weir	CHRIS WEIR Telephone: Mobile: 07922 496682 Email: heritagetalks@outlook.com Website: www.heritagetalks.homestead.com Topics: Lace, Slums and The Occasional Riot: The Making of Victorian Nottingham The Story of Boots: Jesse Boot, Florence and the history of the Boots Company A Woman’s Lot: Women’s History in Nottinghamshire, 1550-1950s The People’s War World War 2 in Nottinghamshire When The Bands Played On! Kill or Cure! Bygone Medicine The Nottinghamshire Heritage Rambling Into History Secrets, Mysteries and Curiosities of Nottinghamshire Mud, Munitions and Memorials: Nottinghamshire and World War One Nottinghamshire’s Dark Side
Mark Dawson	MARK DAWSON Telephone: Mobile: Email: mdfoodhistory@gmail.com Website: mdfoodhistory.weebly.com Topics: Food and Drink in Tudor and Stuart Derbyshire Food and Drink in Tudor and Stuart Nottinghamshire Oatcakes: farming and diet in North Derbyshire What’s up with ewe? A thousand years of English sheep’s milk cheese Eating out of house and home. – How did people in the early modern period get food when they were away from home and what sorts of food did they eat?

Andy McKinnon

Member of the Trent to Trenches Nottingham World War One Group and Arnold Local History Group

Talks

"History of BestwoodPark" Nottinghamshire

"1914"

which will focus on the BEF in 1914

"The Battle of the Somme"

"They called it Passiondale"

Schools

My work in schools involves a 30-minute presentation about their local war memorial and how the Great War affected their local community, followed by another 30 minutes playing with artefacts.

These are all individual talks, based on the same theme, but which I research separately for each school.

I can do this for anywhere in the county,

Contact email nottinghamblue@hotmail.com

Colin Bower

Location: Sherwood, Nottingham

ABOUT ME...

For more years than I care to remember I have been associated with the world of entertainment as an actor, broadcaster and speaker.
Two highlights are the launching of Anglia Television in Norwich and the commercial radio station Plymouth Sound in Plymouth.
As a youngster at school in Bath I failed miserably academically and on the field of sport, but I always had the leading part in school plays!
My sister married a Canadian, so I lived in Canada for seven years appearing regularly with the London Little Theatre at the Grand Theatre, London, Ontario.
As the entertainment world is so precarious I have had to accept other work as varied as a waiter to an attendant in a hospital morgue.
Around the age of forty, by pure chance, a new career started as a speaker and this has included eighteen cruises as the Guest Speaker on ships ranging from the ‘QE2’ to ‘Voyager’

ABOUT MY TALKS...

I just stand and talk with no technical aids – they always go wrong! All my talks are true stories and it goes without saying they contain no crudity.

My duration is usually 50/60 minutes.

FEE:

My basic fee is £60 plus petrol, however, for special events I charge more.

Usually, I am available on short notice and am prepared to travel anywhere in the UK.

MY CONTACT DETAILS:

PHONE 0115 9606638 EMAIL: colinbower461@btinternet.com

Latest comments

24.11 | 10:51

Hi Bob,

Could you give a talk to Edwalton Probus Club on the 28th March , We meet at Welbeck Hall, West Bridgeford and have lunch at about 12 noon

04.10 | 10:17

Sorry Bob you have been given the wrong email address in our previous request- please use my email address

04.10 | 09:43

We are looking for speakers for our 2023 calendar. Each meeting is the last Monday of the month - omitting May, August,September and December. We look forward to hearing from you.
Carol & Pat

10.08 | 10:43

Hi Bob I am looking for speakers for speakers for Darley Abbey Historical Group in 2023. We have available dates April 21st, June 16th, July 21st, October 20th and. November 17th.

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