ARCHIVE/HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The information contained in these pages has been collected by Una Lonergan and Beryl Green over a period of fifteen years into an “Archive” of Historical Information about the people, their recollections and events that occured in the Village of North Baddesley, plus many hundreds of photographs that have been supplied by villagers.
Una and Beryl tell the story, in their own words of how this “Archive” and “The North Baddesley Historical Society” came into being.
“We have been friends since we were teenagers and in the early 1990’s (having both retired), we decided to find out more about the village that we lived in. In the process we started to gather a lot of old photographs, old wills, documents and information about the village, including quite a few memoirs of people who have lived here all their lives, this now forms the basis of what is known as THE NORTH BADDESLEY ARCHIVE.
In 1996 we produced our first book entitled The Changing Face of North Baddesley and in 2005 our second book North Baddelsey… Revisited (we still have copies of this available at £3.00 each)
In between times we produced two videos in 2003 entitled:
The Story of North Baddesley From Domesday to the Millenium and
The Story of the Borden Site 1938-2002.
Due to local interest and support we decided to form “The North Baddesley Historical Society” with the support of the Parish Council.
The inaugural meeting took place in September 2006, with the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Parish Council joining us on the Committee. The first benefit of the Historical Society has been the setting up of this Web Site, bringing us into the 2lst century.”
All Publications
In 2005 we published the
The North Baddesley… Revisted book which is a 56 page Pictorial Journey Though The 20th Century with colour and black and white photographs of North Baddesley plus text snippets of its history.
It is available for only £3.00 each, contact Una Lonergan via this email link
unalonergan@btinternet.com
So far over 1000 copies of this book have been sold and £1000 has been donated to the Patients Participation Group (Health Centre)
In January 2008 we published the Memoranda of the Parish of North Baddesley by John Marsh 1808 to mark the 200th anniversary of it being written. The book has 32 pages and is a history of North Baddesley written by John Marsh and is dedicated to Sir Nathaniel Holland Bart owner of the Manor at the time.
It is available for only £3.00 each, contact Una Lonergan via this email link
unalonergan@btinternet.com
In May 2008 we published the North Baddesley School Log Book 1876-1945 compiled by Janet Harman. The book has 66 pages of interesting extracts from the school log from its beginning in 1876 and concluding at the end of the Second World War.
It is available for only £3.00 each, contact Una Lonergan via this email link
unalonergan@btinternet.com
THE NORTH BADDESLEY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The aims are:
- To be aware of the changing history of the village.
- To preserve and collate all forms of the history for
future generations.
- To make sure the Archive is accessible to all. (this was started by Una and Beryl in 1992)
- To add to and research projects for the local history.
- To promote interest by the local people.
We meet bi-monthly in the Baptist Church Hall, Nutburn Road (near the traffic lights on the A27) at 7.30pm. Various project groups meet together for extra research at other times. At the moment research is being undertaken into, the history of shops & businesses, source of road names, local farms, wartime etc.
For further details contact:
Una Lonergan on 023 8073 0045 or email unalonergan@btinternet.com
Eric Cosier on 023 8041 0623 or email erickroy.cosier@ntlworld.com
