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Introduction.
The Society was formed in March 1976 to research and document the history of the parish and its people. Monthly meetings were held and a series of Transactions were published between the years 1977 to 2003 Today, informal monthly meetings are held, usually on the last Thursday of the month at 7pm in The Old Chapel, Alveley. New visitors and members are always welcome to attend and potentially contribute to aspects of local history or family research. Contact us for further information or with any queries. Next Meeting: There will be no further meetings of AHS until the present Covid-19 Emergency restrictions have been relaxed. Please watch this space for further updates! Website Content On this website you will find archive material on many areas of local history, including society transactions and publications, registers, church and chapel history, deeds and wills and much more, covering many topics. Take a look at our Events tab to find out about our immediate next event, or our future events page to see more long term plans. View the past events page to find out about events just gone. We hope that you will find all of the information interesting and helpful in your own research. Please feel free to contact us with queries or to provide additional information. The society is always happy to recieve donations or bequests towards its funds, please use the "contact us" facility to make your wishes known. (PDF files are used extensively on this website. To download the latest Adobe PDF reader software click here.) Facebook Content Visit our Facebook page to see the latest photographs and comments uploaded by members of the Society and the interested public. |
Latest News
17/3/20 It has been decided that in view of current government advice our meetings are cancelled until further notice 14/08/19 Unfortunately, the August meeting of the group has had to be cancelled. Next meeting Sept 19th 10/10/17 Change of Date and Venue for October meeting, now 26th October, at 12, Daddlebrook Road 27/7/17 Alveley Weighbridge and Coal Mining Heritage Project - Due to the heavy workload, extensive time consuming nature and urgency of this project, Alveley Historical Society (AHS) decided that it was not a direction that they wanted to pursue and that a separate group should be set up. The new group is called Alveley Mining Heritage group, having separate funding from AHS, part from a project grant from Alveley & Romsley Parish Council, part events revenue, donations and book sales. Alveley Mining Heritage was officially launched on 27th July 2017. For more information please visit the website www.alveleyminingheritage.org 26/11/16 Important News The December 1st AHS meeting has been cancelled - next meeting 19th January 2017 25/11/16 Coal Mining Heritage Project 2016-19, Sat. 26th November 2016 SevernValley CP. info here 14/11/16 Coal Mining Heritage Project 2016-19, Sat. 19th November 2016 SevernValley CP. link here 11/11/16 New photo's added to the gallery from Don Banister of Alveley in 1994/95 link here 30/10/16 Coal Mining Heritage Project 2016-19 display on Nov 2nd & 3rd more info here 2/8/16 The recent Coal Mining Heritage Weekend Report is here and to refresh your memory of the weekend please follow this link to past events page. 27/5/16 New Protocol: Loans and Donations of All Archive Material (i.e. documents, photographs and items). It was agreed at the last AHS meeting (26th May 2016) that anyone wishing to offer any archive material to Alveley Historical Society is asked to message us via our contact page on the website at www.alveleyhistoricalsociety.org and then invited to bring them along to one of our monthly meetings.......read the protocol document here 27/5/16 "We are currently looking at improving our archive storage facilities, any donations towards this cost would be most gratefully recieved" 28/7/16 Vacancy- Can you help? We are seeking an archivist(s), who could help us to catalogue our large collection of material both in paper/photographic and electronic form, any offers would be gratefully received. If interested please use our email facility "Contact Us" under the "Home" tab above. 1/7/16 Sale of AHS Publications Grab a bargain buy one of our publications at a reduced price! Full Price List here |