THE RESTORATION OF KING CHARLES II
A Local Connection
At the Society’s April meeting on
Tuesday
April 21st at
7.30pm in Chaddesley Village Hall (Upstairs Room), Roger Pendrill will
talk of the part his ancestors, the five Pendrill brothers, one of whom lived at
Boscobel, played in the escape of the Prince of Wales after the Battle of Worcester and,
later, in the Restoration of King Charles II.
The
brothers, all yeoman farmers, were awarded pensions by the king when he came to the throne in 1660.
Appropriately,
these were paid out annually on May 29th,
Oak Apple Day.
Mr. Pendrill’s
talk promises to be both interesting and entertaining.
February Meeting Report
Roger Higgins opened the year’s programme of events
with a talk on Place Names of the Parish of Chaddesley Corbett.
He
kept a packed house (members of the audience were sitting in the lobby outside the
upstairs room of the Village Hall because the numbers were so great!), highly
entertained for more than an hour, no mean feat when discussing the finer points of Anglo
Saxon, and its spelling.
The rest of the year’s speakers will have a hard act
to follow.
For further information please contact;- Trevor
Kingsley-Curry
Tel no:- 01562 777407
LECTURE PROGRAMME 2009
10th February Place Names
of the Parish of Chaddesley Corbett - Roger Higgins
17th
March Annual General Meeting followed by Bromsgrove Guild Stained
Glass - Ray Albutt
21st April King Charles II
& my Ancestor's part in the Restoration - Roger Pendrill
19th May The Birmingham
Assay Office - Dr Sally Baggot
16th September Elisabeth
Tangye Lecture
20th October Lost Mansions
of the Black Country - Ian Bott
17th November Woven in
Kidderminster - Melvyn Thompson
All will be held in
Chaddesley Corbett Village Hall, starting at 7.30 pm, except for the AGM
on 17th March which will begin at 7.00 pm
Chaddesley Corbett Local History Society
The research sessions are progressing well with map
tracing and typing of the Tithe Schedule almost complete. If you would
like to join in please come along. Please ring Elizabeth Mountford
777487 if you would like more information.
Important Notice to Home Owners.
If you are selling or buying a house in the Parish of Chaddesley
Corbett could you please ask for the old deeds to be returned to you.
Now the Land Registry is completely computerised all your old deeds,
unless specifically requested, will be shredded and lost forever.
The History Society would be very interested to have sight of them to
copy for their records or if you did not need them we would be very
much like to store them in our archives.
Also if you have any old photographs or information about your house
it would be very useful to us as we are slowly scanning and writing up
‘The Past’ on to discs for the benefit of present and future
generations.
Rob Blakeway 01562 777679
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