Colwall Village Society Talks and Events


Rotherwas Munitionette

A Munitionette's View: Angela Wiliams

Monday 24th February

Angela Williams from Rotherwas Together will be talking about the dangers, the dramas and the day-to-day routine at Rotherwas Royal Ordnance Factory in WW1 and WW2, where several people from Colwall worked.

Colwall Home Guard

Colwall Invasion 1940: Phil Kendrick

Monday 14th April

AGM followed by a talk setting the scene if Colwall has been invaded during Wolrd War II.

Film Poster

Went the Day Well

Friday 16th May 19:30 Colwall Village Hall £5

A collaboration with "Flicks in the Sticks" showing the war time film "Went the Day Well" which shows what happens when an English Village is occupied by disguised German troops and the villagers stage a fightback.

Gas Mask

Colwall's Home Front

Saturday 17th May 2pm - 5pm Colwall Village Hall

A celebration of life in Colwall during WW2. Click here for more information.

Previous speakers and events.

21/10/24
Heather Whatley: Dame Laura Knight
19/10/24
Archives Open Day: Dame Laura Knight
17/06/24
James Ferguson: Colwall - A Special Place
11/04/24
Archives Open Day: Colwall Golf Courses
15/04/24
Georgia Jacobs: Geological Inspirations - Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark
29/01/24
Helen Picton: History of Old Court Nurseries
18/11/23
Archives Open Day: World War 1 Remembered
25/09/23
George Demidowicz : History of Barton Court
17/04/23
David Lovelace: Colwall Parish Hedgerow Survey
15/04/23
Archives Open Day: Aunt Alice
23/01/23
Colin Fenn : Reading the Runes in St James' Churchyard
14/11/23
Herefordshire Council: Kerbside Waste Collections - A Greener Future
26/09/22
Mark Warby : Bruce Bairnsfather
22/10/22
Archives Open Day: Colwall Railway
13/06/22
Rory Johnson : Making Meadows with the the Herefordshire Meadows Group
24/01/22
David Nash (Zoom): A Glove Affair
22/11/21
Rhys Griffith (Zoom): Unlocking the History of your House
27/01/2020
David Whitehead : The Historic Parks & Gardens of East Herefordshire and the Malverns
25/11/2019
Catcher Media : Carousel (film)
29/10/2019
Archives Open Day: Colwall Maps
09/09/2019
James Bowen : The VCH Report on Colwall
29/04/2019
George Demidowicz : Charles I's Thirds sold on the Malvern Hills
21/01/2019
Catcher Media : Hop Picking in Herefordshire (film)
10/09/2018
Mike Jackson : Directing the Antiques Roadshow at Eastnor Castle
23/04/2018
Joyce Clifford : The Design and Development of the new Colwall School
22/01/2018
Joe Hillaby : Craswell Priory: a triple unique Grandmontine Cell in the Marches
11/09/2017
Mike Lewis : Hope End and Elisabeth Barrett Browning
19/06/2017
Duncan Bridges : The Work of the Malvern Hills Conservators
24/04/2017
Penny Platt : The History of Cider
23/01/2017
Peter Sutton : William Langland: Poet of the Malvern Hills
19/09/2016
Edward Nash : Development of the Malvern Water Site
20/06/2016
Gary Butler : Refurbishment of Ledbury’s Master’s House
18/04/2016
Ron Shoesmith : Alfred Watkins
25/01/2016
Cora Weaver : The History of Malvern Water
16/11/2015
Steve Hockett : An Auden/Britten Night
20/04/2015
Tim Dixon : Natural History in Colwall
26/01/2015
Beth Andrews : Building with stone in Colwall
15/09/2014
Jenny Harrison, Nick Neve : Colwall War Memorial
28/04/2014
Richard Bryant : The Ice Age in Colwall
27/01/2014
Gordon Wood : Building the Hereford to Worcester Railway
16/09/2013
Amanda Simons : British Camp
22/04/2013
Janet Cooper : The Victoria County History at Eastnor
28/01/2013
Mark Archer : Restoration of Perrycroft
29/10/2012
Tim Bridges : Coddington Church
23/04/2012
Duncan James : Some old Properties in Colwall
23/01/2012
David Lovelace : The Battle of Colwall Park
19/09/2011
Rebecca Roseff : Colwall Chase
12/06/2011
M Lewis: Visit to Hope End
18/04/2011
Elizabeth Lloyd : The Bright Family of Colwall
17/01/2011
Tim Bridges : Colwall Church
20/09/2010
James Ferguson : Colwall Not just a railway Village 1800-1940
21/06/2010
Mike Beard : Story of a Colwall Blacksmith and a few sheep
26/04/2010
Graham Cowan : Colwall Past & Present
15/03/2010
Ian Rowat (Malvern Hills Conservators) : Malvern Hills & Colwall Green
18/01/2010
Mike Lewis : Hope End House
21/09/2009
Paul Remfrey : Herefordshire Beacon/British Camp
15/06/2009
Carl Attwood : Reminiscences of Colwall
27/04/2009
Freda Ballard : Stephen Ballard & Family
19/01/2009
Paul Picton : History of Old Court Nursery & Picton Garden
22/09/2008
Mike Paulson : The Worcester to Hereford Railway
21/04/2008
Cora Weaver : Wealth of watering holes
21/01/2008
Alastair Ramsey : The Downs School
24/09/2007
Dr James Ferguson : Not just a Railway Village - The history of Colwall to 1800
23/04/2007
Dr Denis Savage : Coddington Vineyard
15/01/2007
Pamela Hurle : The History of the Elms School
25/09/2006
Malcolm Atkin : The Civil War - what it was like for ordinary people
24/04/2006
Douglas Davies : Eastnor Castle
16/01/2006
Dr John Payne : Geology of the Malverns
26/09/2005
Keith Duddy : The Restoration of Park Farm
25/04/2005
Brian Smith : Old maps of Herefordshire
17/01/2005
John Boynton : When the Railway came to Colwall
27/09/2004
Joe Hillaby : St. Katherines Hospital, Ledbury in the Middle Ages
26/04/2004
Ian Rowat (Malvern Hills Conservators) : Managing the Malvern Hills and Commons in the 21st Century
19/01/2004
Tim Hoverd(Herefordshire Archaeology)Archaeology of woodland in the Malvern Hills :
22/09/2003
John Tyson(Malvern Water) : Rain to Bottle
28/04/2003
Jim Savage, Graham Cowan : Colwall then and now Part 3
27/01/2003
Nigel Bailey, Hereford and Gloucester Canal Trust : Restoring the Hereford and Gloucester Canal
16/09/2002
Jim Tonkin : Houses and other vernacular buildings
29/04/2002
Jim Savage, Graham Cowan : Colwall then and now Part 2
28/01/2002
Dudley Brook : A Naturalist on the Malvern Hills
24/09/2001
Ruth Richardson : Field names are fascinating
19/04/2001
Jim Savage, Graham Cowan : Colwall then and now
25/01/2001
Dr Johny Birks : Wild mammals around Colwall
25/09/2000
Cora Weaver : Spouts and fountains of the Malvern Hills
17/04/2000
Nick Neve, Tom Marsh and Tony Sear : Colwall Racecourse, Golf in Colwall and The Purlieu
31/01/2000
Harry Green(Worcestershire Wildlife Trust) : Birds
20/09/1999
Valerie Goodbury : Extraction Industries on the Malvern Hills
26/04/1999
Liz Taylour, Freda Ballard, Julia Boyle : The Charlie Ballard Nature Reserve
04/02/1999
Sue Hubbard, Head of Records : Hereford Record Office about historical documents related to Colwall
03/12/1998
: Visit to Hereford Record Office
01/10/1998
Pamela Hurle : The Malvern Hills - past and present
23/04/1998
Fiona Lickorish (English Nature),Celia Beckham (Ledbury CPRE) : Hedgerow survey - introduction
14/04/1998
Barbara Eagles, Henry Horton, Elizabeth Lloyd, Ann Sealy, Paul Picton, Tom Marsh : A wander down Memory Lane