Thoroton Society Events
Lectures, unless otherwise stated, are held at Nottingham Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, NOTTINGHAM NG1 4EZ. Lectures start at 2:30 pm.
This venue is fully accessible and has facilities for disabled people. A bookstall is available from 2:00 pm.
Saturday 12 October 2024
Myles Thoroton Hildyard Lecture: 'RNLI 2000 - Two centuries of saving lives at sea'.
Denis Readhead, RNLI Community Presenter
Saturday 2 November 2024
Annual Lunch
Belgrave Rooms (Nottingham Masonic), NG14 6NU.
12:30 for 1:00 pm.
Cost £30 per person.
Saturday 9 November 2024
Nottinghamshire History Lecture: '"Open to the world": Nottingham Castle Museum and the British Empire’.
Frances Potts, University of Nottingham
Saturday 14 December 2024
Neville Hoskins Lecture: ‘Cinemas in Nottingham’
Graham Woodward, Local Historian
Graham is the chairman of Nottingham Civic Society. He has been photographing Nottingham’s buildings and architecture since the late 1970s and has over 10,000 images of the city. He has written a range of historical articles about Nottingham’s railways, canals, police stations etc, and published three pictorial-guide books about Wollaton and one on the Nottingham Canal. He presents around 15 talks a year on a range of subjects, Nottingham related – the list is available on his website at www.gwoodward.co.uk/talks.html – and he is a guide on a series of walks for the Civic Society.
The talk is about Nottingham’s cinemas and looks at the early development of moving pictures, how and why cinemas came into being and their development in Nottingham, which has had 57 cinemas over the last 120 years. The talk looks at the most popular ones, their architecture, and their significance both locally and nationally. It also includes some film of Nottingham shot in 1902. Regrettably, it is bring your own popcorn or choc ices!
Saturday 11 January 2025
Maurice Barley Lecture: ‘Nottinghamshire timber-framed buildings’
Jason Mordan, Conservation, Nottinghamshire County Council
Saturday 8 February 2025
Norah Witham Lecture: ‘Nottinghamshire surveyed: mapping and documenting estates in the county before 1700’
Steph Mastoris
Saturday 8 March 2025
Rosalys Coope Lecture: ‘Restoring a Georgian town-house garden’
Martin Stott, Trustee, Bromley House Library
Saturday 27 April 2025
Spring Meeting & AGM
Venue to be confirmed. At 2:00 pm.
Entry to the AGM is free, there will be a modest charge for afternoon tea.