Moreton (From Tewkesbury Admag)

Moreton

GARDENING CLUB: There was a good attendance at the May meeting. Before the start of proceedings members booked their places for the three outings to local gardens this coming summer. The chairman then introduced the speaker for the evening. Mrs Sue Burn gave an illustrated talk on Batsford Arboretum. She started with a brief history of the house and garden as it was in the early 1800s then followed by showing slides of a year in the Arboretum as it is today. Much of the planting is influenced by trees from China and Japan. The chairman thanked the speaker.

LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY: At the May meeting the chairman, Guy Stapleton, announced that the well-known local lecturer and historian, Tim Porter, had agreed to become the society's president. By a happy coincidence Mr Porter was the speaker for the evening, and his talk on the short-lived mediaeval county of Winchcombeshire persuaded the audience that but for an accident of fate the North Cotswolds should have ended up in Winchcombeshire, not Gloucestershire.

The society has now completed its photographic project, a team of photographers having produced four volumes showing every building, or examples of types of buildings, in Moreton parish between 1994 and 2006. The project was directed by Zoe Lockyer and Jo Stanley, with descriptions by Guy Stapleton.

The 2006/7 programme is now available, starting on September 13 with a talk by Hugh Conway-Jones on Literary Links in the Gloucestershire Landscape. In the meantime, summer tours have been arranged to Bath, local churches and Chedworth Roman Villa.