Hook Norton Local History Group

Hook Norton Local History Group
Monthly meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month from September until May at the Brewery Visitor Centre at 7.30pm. Membership costs 10 for an individual and 19 for 2 people living at the same address. Non members are more than welcome at just 2 per meeting.
Speakers Season 2011/12
6th September – Jonathan Muller – The Church Bells of Hook Norton
4th October – Gerald Lesinski – Lord Leycester Hospital
1st November – John Chaplin – The Birth of Leisure 1800-1900
6th December – James Tobin – Hook Norton at War
4th January – Brian Rider – The Wars of the Roses
7th February – John Wheatley – The Redesdale Family
6th March – David McGill – Hook Norton – Read all about it – Part II
3rd April – Bill Leonard – Kings to Water Sprites – The History of an Oxfordshire Hamlet
1st May – AGM
In addition the group has several publications which are available for sale. These are:
Somewhere Along the Line – The Story of the Banbury to Cheltenham Railway – 3.50
Hook Norton Village Trail – A walk round the village – 2
Hook Norton Footpaths – 4 Walks around the village, originally published in the 1980s and revised in 2003 – 2
Hook Norton 2000AD – A hardback photographic record of the village over the Millennium – 2
Postage and packing is 1 per book with the exception of Hook Norton 2000AD which costs 2.
In 1928 Margaret Dickins, the then organist of St Peter’s, wrote a book entitled History of Hook Norton. This has been reprinted by the Group and copies are now available for sale. A more comprehensive index of names which will be of use to family historians is also included in the reprint. The cost of this publication is 9 plus 3 P&P.
Please make cheques payable to Hook Norton Local History Group and send with your order to the Secretary, David McGill, Sunnybank Farmhouse, Scotland End, Hook Norton, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5NR.
If ordering from outside the UK please contact David to ascertain postage and packing costs. His email address isscotlandend@btinternet.comand telephone number is (+44) 1608 737103.
SPECIAL OFFER – For a limited period copies of the Dickins book andHook Norton 2000AD can be purchased for a combined price of 10. The combination would make an ideal present.There are not many copies of the Dickins book left so act quickly if you would like one.
The War Memorial in St Peter’s Church commemorates those from the village who gave their lives in both World Wars. David McGill is researching the men whose names are listed on the Memorial. If you have any information – perhaps you are a descendant or relation – about any of those who died whilst on active service David would be pleased to hear from you.