TillVAS Till Valley Archaeological Society

Officers and Committee

The Officers and Committee members for 2018/2019 are:-

Hon. President — Dr. Chris Burgess,

Chairman — Colin Wakeling

Vice-Chairman — Vacancy

Treasurer — Mike Keating (Project Manager of the Branxton & Crookham Village Atlas Project)

Secretary — Maureen Charlton (Archivist), e-mail: maureencharlton910@btinternet.com

Membership Secretary — Valerie Glass—see Membership page for contact details and other information

Minutes Secretary — Julia Day (Assistant Archivist)

Data Protection Officer -- Colin Wakeling

Committee Members — Heather Waldron (Website and Twitter Manager), Sue Branson, Ray Clark, Jenny Cant and Brian Reeds

Heather Pentland has stood down from the committee but will remain as Archaeology Manager.

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Tickets for James IV mmorial lecture now on sale.

7th October Coldstream Community Centre 2.30

Dr Alex Hildred

HENRY VIII's Mary Rose - FROM SEABED TO SHOWCASE

Tickets £6 - available from Maureen

maureencharlton@btinternet.com

Dates for the dig at Mardon

The dig to revisit our iron age site on Mardon farm will run from 25th August to 5th September.

For details please visit the archaeology page.

Crookham Church

On Sunday 19th August there will be an "85th Birthday Garden Party" at Crookham URC, beginning with a 1930's style tea at 3pm, organised by the Rev. Mary Taylor. This will be followed at 4pm by a talk by Mike Keating on "The First Church at Crookham" and at 4.40pm, a talk by Antony Chessell on "The Modern Church at Crookham". Both talks are based on information collected by TillVAS for the "Branxton and Crookham Village Atlas Project." There is also the "Flodden Peace Garden" to wander around.

All are welcome. There is no charge for this event, but donations towards to the upkeep of the Church will be most welcome.

Kirknewton Sheepdog Trials and Heritage Open Day

Sunday 19^th August

Local History Displays and films:

Special showing of ‘Night of Years’

(The story of Josephine Butler)

Find out about Bob Fraser, farm improvements, the Bondager farming system and visit St Gregory’s Church.

( service at 11 a.m. )

Free entry.

Light Refreshments Northumbrian Pipers

Visit the Trials to see the dogs in action.

Dog trials from 9a.m. Heritage Day 10 -4

HOLYSTONE

Richard Carlton will be giving a talk on the 2018 Holystone Roman Road Dig on Wednesday 22 August at 7:30pm in Holystone Church. All welcome.

Bowsden History Group - A Tale of Two Mills. (Spindleston and Waren) 3rd Sept 2018 7.30 Bowsden Village Hall.

The next TillVAS talk is on Weds. 5^th September at 7.30pm in Crookham Village Hall when Dr Brian Moffat from Edinburgh will tell us about ‘Medieval Medicine and its use in the present day’.

The report for Mardon has now been completed. See the Archaeology section for more details. HLF has awarded a grant to TillVAS for further work in autumn 2018.

TillVAS AGM

Many thanks to all who attended our AGM and talk where Dr Richard Carlton gave a very good account of the Mardon Dig. For more details see 'reports on events'

Data Protection - please see the new TillVAS policy statement on the membership page

TillVAS ARCHIVES

The Society has an extensive collection of documents and photographs held in its secure archives. These are invaluable for members wishing to study the local history of the area or wishing to gather information for e.g. the Village Atlas Project. Please click on the tag above to see the catalogues. Anyone wishing to access the archives should contact the Society's Archivist, Maureen Charlton or the Assistant Archivist, Julia Day.

MEMBERS' WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS

Please see a new section on the website—click on the appropriate tab above. Please let us have your thoughts, in prose or in verse.

BRANXTON & CROOKHAM VILLAGE ATLAS PROJECT

There are some important meetings of the Activity Groups scheduled over the next few months. Please click on the appropriate tag above, which will take you to the Village Atlas page and give you all the dates, times and places of the meetings.

ALL MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, TILLVAS MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF OTHER ATLAS GROUPS ARE ALSO WELCOME TO ATTEND ANY OF THESE MEETINGS (except the Steering Committee).

Please click on the Latest Newsletter page to see information for the current month.

PREVIOUS LECTURE AND OTHER REPORTS

Click on Reports on Events, above, for detailed accounts and press reports.

BOOKSTALL

The Society operates a bookstall at all its meetings.

Items for sale include:-

1. The Society's first publication Breamish and Till: From Source to Tweed at £10 per copy and

2. Vivian Wilcock's Andrew Todd 1844-1908 ( with research input by TillVAS members) at £5 per copy.

See the Publications page for more about these books. Copies of Breamish and Till are also available in Cornhill Village Shop and the Lavender Tea Rooms and Village Shop in Etal.

There are also archaeological books and journals for sale. Net proceeds of sale go to TillVAS funds.