Events

Chaddesley Corbett Local History Society   Wednesday September 18th - 7.30pm  Alan Godfrey *** Rowland Hill   Picture credit - https://victorianweb.org/technology/letters/hill.html Sir Rowland Hill — a photograph with Hill's signature A man of our town, a revolutionary that spilt no blood and benefitted every man in his own lifetime, up to the present day and forever in the future of humankind. A teacher at 14, an inventor and an enlightened public servant. Amazon, DPD, Evri and DHL may be titans in […]

Chaddesley Corbett Local History Society   Wednesday October 16th - 7.30pm  Anthony Poulton-Smith The Salt Routes   The Talk: As mankind gave up the nomadic hunter gatherer life and became farmers, they were largely self-sufficient. However, one vital commodity was available only in a few isolated areas - salt. Early settlements needed salt to preserve meat and as a vital part of the diet of every animal. Thus, trade routes were born, a network of tracks filtering across the land […]