On May 6th this year, Dick Irving gave a talk via Zoom to the Chepstow Archaeological Society: “A Brief History of the Stone Mines and Quarries at Combe Down, near Bath”. Thanks to Colin Harris, the Chairman of that society, and to Miranda Litchfield, Chief Executive of our sister organisation the Museum of Bath Stone, we can now make this available here on our own website.
The talk proper begins at 1:50 and lasts until 59:00, after which there are questions.
In the hope and expectation that public meetings in some form or other will be possible in the Autumn, four talks have been scheduled as follows.
| Month | Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| September | 8th | Dr. Richard Irving | History of Combe Down mines |
| October | 13th | Dr. Roger Ransome | Horseshoe bat population of the Combe Down mines |
| November | 10th | Dr. Roger Rolls | History of infectious diseases in Bath |
| December | 8th | Michael Howard-Kyan | Riding Africa |
PLEASE WATCH FOR ANY CHANGES DUE TO COVID PANDEMIC
This year’s Annual General Meeting was held successfully online for the first time, using Zoom. It took place at 7.30 p.m. on Friday 16 April.
It was attended by (at least) 23 people, although many kept their video feeds turned off (at our request) so the actual total number of members present may have been larger.
The minutes of the meeting are available here.