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PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

All Functions take place in the Hunnyhill Room, Riverside Centre, Newport, unless otherwise stated.

Map showing Riverside Centre, Resource Centre and Record Office.

Date EVENT
Saturday 10th May 2008 One Day Conference - Theme "The Island at War"
The Human Side of the Island War Memorials - Speaker - Geoff Allan
The Blyskawica - Defender of Cowes - Speaker - Tim Gladdis
The Isle of Wight at War 1939-1945 - John Medland
Monday 2nd June 2008 Summer Outing - The Military Vehicle Museum, Northwood
Monday 7th July 2008 I was the Queen's Footman
Speaker - Keith Broadway
Monday 4th August 2008 What our Ancestors Wore in Victorian Times - A Fashion Show
Speaker - Pauline Burford
Monday 1st September 2008 A Lifeboat topic - more to be announced later
Monday 6th October 2008 Thomas Lipton - Sailing with the Grocer
Speaker - Rosemary Joy
Monday 3rd November 2008 Finds on the Beach - Vectis Metal Detector Club
Speaker - Richard Arminger & Brian Manser
Monday 1st December 2008 A Queen for all Historians
Speaker - Jean Peters with the Heraldry Group

Doors open at 7 pm and speakers will begin at 7.30 pm. Members = £1. Non-members = £1.25.

COACH TRIPS TO LONDON to The National Archives, Kew or the London Record Offices - trips for 2008

The proposed dates for coach trips to London during 2008 are as follows:

National Archives, Kew
Wednesday 11 June 2008
Saturday 27 September 2008
Thursday 20 November 2008

London Record Offices
Tuesday 21 October 2008

Please note : the Family Records Centre in Middleton Street, London closed in March 2008, with many of the records held there being transferred to The National Archives at Kew

Full details of coach trips from Mrs Janet Griffin, 1 Norris Cottages, 46 Newbarn Road, East Cowes, IOW, PO32 6AY
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