Hagley Historical and Field Society

All meetings, events and walks are cancelled until 31st March 2021. 

Meetings are held at 8pm on the first Tuesday of the month

St Saviour’s Church Hall, West Hagley DY9 0NS.

Visitors are most welcome at all our events – £2 including refreshments

Annual membership £10 Contact: mail@hhfs.org.uk

Meetings 2021    

January 5th First World War Smethwick and the Lightwoods Military Hospital – Mary Bodfish – CANCELLED

February 2nd Clent Village: A Brief Look Back (Part 1)   Paul Timmins, Chairman, Clent History Society – CANCELLED

March 2nd The Last Days of Steelmaking at Round Oak – Keith Hodgkins – CANCELLED

April 6th Shelsley Walsh: The Story of a Village – Max Hunt

May 4th TBA

June 1st Henry VIII and the Field of Cloth of Gold – Dr Gillian White

July 6th TBA

September 7th TBA

October 5th AGM followed by: William Shenstone – Julian Hunt

November 2nd The Major Repairs to the External Fabric of Tyntesfield – Derek Clarke RIBA

December 7th King Richard III: Hero? Murderer? Loyal Brother? – Max Keen

The idea for this new publication was originally developed by the late Dr Peter Bloore, who lived in Middlefield Lane. He was a member of Hagley Historical and Field Society and also Hagley Parish Archivist. His widow offered the file to the Archive Group and they decided that they would continue his research and aim at publishing a summary of his work plus contributions from people, who lived or had lived in the Lane or had first hand knowledge of the residents. The results are now available as an illustrated book of fifty-two pages.

Middlefield Lane front

Middlefield Lane back

The book is priced at £4 and can be ordered online from Hagley Historical and Field Society.

OUT OF STOCK

The book “Hagley Miscellanea” by John-Homery Folkes, the architect of St.Saviour’s Hall, was first published in 1974. It was for private circulation and only 25 copies were printed. Forty years later it is considered sufficiently interesting to merit this reprint. The author (born 1906) has gathered a wide range of reminiscences that together give a picture of Hagley’s inhabitants, houses, industries, celebrations and entertainments in the century and more before the explosion of house-building in the 1960s.

The book includes: the early days of the railway station; the building of St. Saviour’s church and planning the cemetery; houses large and small; an attempt at encroachment in Church Street; the Rifle Corps and the Range; the nursemaid question!; Hagley celebrities; the Sunday postal delivery and church attendance and an eyewitness account of the fire at Hagley Hall on Christmas Eve 1925. The “Illustrations” section includes the programme for the Coronation Celebration of June 1911.

OUT OF STOCK

The book is priced at £5 and can be ordered online from Hagley Historical and Field Society.

The Society has now launched a new book entitled ‘Hagley: A Village at War 1914 – 1918’, researched and written by local author and member, Pat Dunn. It is based on the ‘Hagley Parish Magazines’ of the period and describes how the people of Hagley dealt with the problems presented by the Great War on the Home Front. The people and places featured on the front cover of June’s issue of the Hagley Village News feature in the book along with many others.

The book is priced at £4 and can be ordered online from Hagley Historical & Field Society.  Click on the book cover below to view the first few pages.