Pilning and Severn Beach History Group
List of Events from 2004 to present
2004 “Looking Into the Picture” – details of old postcards
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2005 “Clifton Rocks Railway” Peter Davey
“Dustbin Films Man”
Summer events Pilning Carnival, Parish Information Day, “Weddings”
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2006 “Look Into the Picture” – new photos
“Links with Brunel” – all day exhibition
“Magic Lantern Show”
Winter event
Exhibition from Thornbury Museum,
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2007 “Film Show” – Brian Haynes
“Wartime Life” Dave Cheesley
“Genealogy” talk
“Victorian Magic Lantern”
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2008 “Concorde Queen of the Skies” illustrated talk + exhibits
“Fry’s Chocolate Evening”
“Local History Needs You” – open meeting for information
“Fairgrounds” – Dave Cheesley
“Brunel” talk/book
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2009 “Luftwaffe Attacks on Sth Glos”
“Photos and Things” – Mike’s Postcards
“A Night at the Cinema” – films about Bristol
2010 “Photo Exhibition” at Easter Compton
“Magic Lantern Show”
2011 “Changing Face of Shops – Tony Cherry
“Genealogy”
“Out & About in Bristol” – John Penny
“Severn Princess”
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2012 “Back to 1950’s” – David Elesbury
“Nan’s Attic” - Mr & Mrs Elesbury
“Lights Out” educational films
“Grandad’s Shed” – Mr & Mrs Elesbury
2013 “British Piers”
Dave Cheesley
“Severn Princess”
“Ration Books to Rock & Roll” – Terry Merrett-Smith
2014 “Year on a Dairy Farm” – Richard Cornock
“Clifton Rocks Railway” – Peter Davey
“Dance Band Days” – Terry Merrett-Smith
“Teddy Boys to Glam Rock” – Dave Cheesley
2015 Joe Nemeth
“Severn Estuary” – Janet Maurice
Joe Nemeth
“Severn Princess”
“Remembering 1960’s” – Dave Cheesley
2016 “Fossils” – Janet Maurice
“Year on a Dairy Farm” repeat
“Remembering 1950’s” Dave Cheesley
Special Exhibition – 1st Severn Bridge
“Mustard Gas” – Joe Nemeth
2017 “Mud” – Janet Maurice
“Evening with Dave Cheesley”
“Trains” – Andrew Swift
“Village Through Time” – Rose Hewlett
2018 “Let’s All go to Severn.Beach” – Joe Nemeth
“Guilty Pleasures” – Chris Biggs
“Golden Age of Picture Postcards” – Dave Cheesley
“Wings of War” – Chris Biggs
“Toys & Games of Yesteryear”
“Gas Girls” – Joe Nemeth
2019 “Lost City of Bristol” – Clive Burlton
Photo Exhibition at Mafeking Hall
“I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside” – John Penny)
“Talk of the Fishermen”
Annual Open Archives Day in October each year.