Join our Society
Membership costs £10 per year. Join at one of our meetings (visitors are most welcome) or contact our Treasurer, Jean Atkinson, at mail@hhfs.org.uk.
Meetings Start Again!!
Our meetings will start again on November 2nd.
Meetings 2021 and 2022
Meetings are held at 8pm on the first Tuesday of the month except August.
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
November 2nd Palaces for the People – Ned Williams
December 7th King Richard III: Hero? Murderer? Loyal Brother? – Max Keen
MEETINGS 2022
January 4th First World War Smethwick and the Lightwoods Military Hospital – Mary Bodfish
February 1st Clent Village: A Brief Look Back (Part 1) – Paul Timmins, Chairman, Clent History Society
FRIDAY March 4th The Last Days of Steelmaking at Round Oak – Keith Hodgkins
April 5th Shelsley Walsh: The Story of a Village – Max Hunt
May 3rd TBA
June 7th Henry VIII and the Field of Cloth of Gold – Dr Gillian White
July 5th TBA
September 6th The Stone and Bronze Age in Worcestershire – Discover History
October 4th AGM followed by: William Shenstone – Julian Hunt
November 1st The Archaeology of the Cinema – Ned Williams
December 6th Gordon of Khartoum: A Victorian Epic – Max Keen
Middlefield Lane, Hagley – A Short History
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.
Hagley Miscellanea written by John-Homery Folkes
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.
Hagley: A Village at War 1914 – 1918
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.
