Another full hall witnessed Ray Porter open the Society\u2019s April meeting with the sombre news of Robert Deeley\u2019s passing.\u00a0 More cheerfully, he went on to announce the arrangements for the May Social, the trips to the National Memorial Arboretum and the Drakelow Tunnels and for the ramble to Baggeridge Country Park.<\/p>\n
The evening\u2019s speaker was the Dudley Borough Archaeologist, John Hemingway, whose presentation was entitled \u2018A Story of the Barony and Castle of Dudley\u2019.\u00a0 John started in 1066 and William\u2019s subsequent problems with the Welsh that caused him to build a ring of castles, including Dudley.<\/p>\n
Our speaker continued the saga through to the second siege of 1644 and the castle\u2019s surrender and slighting during the Civil War.\u00a0 The story was told through the Somerys, the Suttons, the Dudleys and, finally the Wards.\u00a0 In the time available, John was only able to touch on some of the intrigue among these families but we did note that most were permanently short of money.\u00a0 As our story concluded, Dudley had become a heavily industrialised region and saw the first Newcomen engine.\u00a0 The castle continued to be occasionally used until 1750, when a huge fire burnt it to a shell. Thus it became the romantic ruin we know today.<\/p>\n
The meeting on Tuesday 2nd<\/sup> June is \u2018Canal Art and how it came about\u2019 by Mrs J Tomkins.\u00a0 \u00a0All are welcome at our meetings at St. Saviour\u2019s Church Hall at 8pm on the first Tuesday in the month and on trips and rambles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another full hall witnessed Ray Porter open the Society\u2019s April meeting with the sombre news of Robert Deeley\u2019s passing.\u00a0 More cheerfully, he went on to announce the arrangements for the May Social, the trips to the National Memorial Arboretum and the Drakelow Tunnels and for the ramble to Baggeridge Country Park. The evening\u2019s speaker was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}