We supported Salem’s Open Day on Saturday 10th July where we opened our base to all comers and dealt with all of their enquiries in what was a very pleasant day.
This Monday we are conducting  a walk around the village for Glenthorne Primary School to introduce them to local history.
Dr Alan Jones has completed his two year researches on the Edaljis and the draft of his book is now completed.  Hopefully it will be available for oue Exhibition when Alan will be doing book signings.  In my opinion this book is the most factual and illuminating of all of the tomes that have been published to date and it leaves the readers to make up their own minds as to whether George Edalji was guilty or not.  It also blows the myth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle taking on the mantle of Sherlock Holmes and solving the mystery right out of the water.  Rather than being tempted by the London Publishers and marketed through WH Smiths and the High Street shops at an exorbitant price, we will be handling it and it will not be sold at more than £5 a copy.
Also John and Sylvia Crump came up from Droitwich Spa to visit us at our Base this week.  Sylvia is researching her Brevitt family tree but John was a teacher at Pinfold Lane School in the early 1970s and he enjoyed scanning through all the old school photographs.  The base is open as usual this Tuesday from 10am – 4pm.
On Tuesday 20th July we are having a get together of the Thomas family to try and link up all the family connections.  Held at our base.
Information is filtering through on the 1946 photograph but we still have no details at all of Ann Turner, Maureen Kingston, Mary Mitchell, Joan Garrett, Doreen Bailey, Mary Roberts, Iris Heminsley, Margaret Kendall, Janet Smith,  Elsie Barker, Beryl Pearson, Mavis Bladon, Geoffrey Barnes, Tom Hulme, John Kirby, Frank Cartwright, Graham Morgan and John Stanley.
Memories this week come from the Craddock, Newman, Jones, Wilde, Ridgeway and Beasley families.
Gail Middleton devoted a complete page in this week’s Black Country Bugle to our Society and on the evening of Ian Wyke’s Anglo Saxon Hoard talk.  It is an excellent article, particularly on the coverage of Ian’s talk.

More information on the above by emailing
trevor.cheslynhayhistory@talktalk.net

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