Members and friends of the Society have had another busy month, with a meeting, walk and two visits.\u00a0 The June meeting saw the welcome return of Mike Miles with a presentation on \u201cThe Canalboat Women\u201d.\u00a0 Using archive photographs, Mike started with a history of the narrow boat operations on the canals between Birmingham and London, explaining how the coming of the railways led to wages being cut and causing the men to take their wives and families on the boats. Our speaker went on to look at the work of the women on the canals \u2013 largely cooking, cleaning and washing \u2013 and how family life went on.\u00a0 By the early 1960s, the advent of lorries had ended long-distance canal traffic and a way of life had disappeared.\u00a0 This was a fascinating presentation on an unusual subject, made more poignant by Mike knowing many of the women\u2019s names, and was much appreciated by a large audience.<\/p>\n
24 members and friends visited Witley Court and church, followed by Abberley Hall and Clock Tower (with its 166 steps!).\u00a0 A second group will visit in July to cater for demand.\u00a0 We eventually had three trips to Hartlebury Castle to allow for numbers and illness \u2013 June saw the last one, with participants greatly enjoying their access to the treasures of the Hurd Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Members and friends of the Society have had another busy month, with a meeting, walk and two visits.\u00a0 The June meeting saw the welcome return of Mike Miles with a presentation on \u201cThe Canalboat Women\u201d.\u00a0 Using archive photographs, Mike started with a history of the narrow boat operations on the canals between Birmingham and London, […]<\/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-1276","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\/1276","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=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}