The local history group has moved!

After nearly nine years at the library the history have moved into the

 refurbished Hagard Community Centre with the help of the

‘Your Neighbourhood Matters’ money.

As part of the grant funding we are holding a

Welcome to Willenhall’

 event on Saturday 20^th February from 11am to 2pm.

 The group have over the years amassed a huge collection of documents and photographs of the local area These will be on display and open for you to come and see the vast changes that have taken place over the years,

Talks, Bring your stories & pictures evenings, help with family history, are just a few of the ideas for this year, we need you to let us know what you would like to hear about, so come along and let us know and we maybe able to arrange a talk on that subject or an event.

Each Tuesday whilst the coming to the Car Boot, call in have and stop for a chat. We hope to be opening up a ‘History Office’ so that we can have easy access to our records and photograph albums for you to see. Bring along your photos so we can copy them and add those special moments to the collection thus adding another important piece to the jigsaw which is Willenhall history.

The group have designed a set of ‘History Panels’ for the new café area with funding from the Heart of England Community Foundation, by changing the original grant application to include the costs involved in designing, collating, and manufacturing the same.

In total there will seven boards showing the history of Willenhall, the history of the Hagard, and the ‘new’ Willenhall, i.e. what has changed and new in the past 15 years

The move will also enable the group to acquire and store a better collection of historical items for display.

By purchasing items which the public can use / handle it is believed that people will be able to engage far better with the history we are trying to display.

These will be such things as wash tub and dolly, scrub board, small [hand used] farming equipment and other items which can be safely handled by the public and children.

This will help better understanding in how people lived in the area just 100 years ago together with costumes of the period.

Meeting Dates for 2010 [6pm to 8pm unless stated]

 a look at the huge collection of documents and

 photographs we have. Ask that question you wanted

 answering about Willenhall, take part in our questions

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