The Society continues to receive requests from overseas with a recent contact from a reader in the USA asking to attend one of the monthly meetings while on holiday in England. The Society was delighted to welcome the visitor to the April meeting when she explained her reason for visiting Edwinstowe, the birthplace of her 7x great grandfather who emigrated to “Mansfield, West Jersey” in the 1680’s to claim land bought in 1677 by his father.
Olwen Hawkes, Chair, then introduced Adrian Gray whose talk “Historical Highlights from Newark and Sherwood” related to lost, forgotten and mysterious places. The audience heard about a cotton mill that employed children from London, flood banks, a lost castle and deer park, a gorge dyke surrounding a village, a dam, the King’s Road through the middle of Sherwood Forest, boundary stones, prehistoric trackways, and water meadows.