Towcester Area WW1 Commemoration - current list of events

Date

Event

Where

To be organised by

Jan- May
2014

Biography competition. Closing date for entries 31st May 2014.

 

Brian Giggins (and Sue
Ingram)

19 Mar10-12

Training and guidance on accessing military and family
history resources for researching WW1 lives.

Towcester
Library

Phil Hemming

Wed 21 May
Thu 22 May

“Killed”, a play by the Looking Glass Theatre directed
by James Smith, in conjunction with Sponne School.

St.Lawrence

John Morris, Ben Phillips.

Sat 2 Aug

Blakesley Show (President Mr A.G.Paton) and Blakesley
Church (Revd Carolyn Oley) will have events.

Blakesley

Martin MarixEvans liaising.

Sun 3 Aug

Blakesley Church will have a special service.

Blakesley

Martin MarixEvans liaising.

Sun 3 Aug

A remembrance parade at the Sunday Service. There is a
potential conflict with an RBL county event.

St.Lawrence

Towcester RBL and Revd. Ben
Phillips.

Aug 2014

Exhibition at Towcester Library

Library

Phil Hemmings.

Aug 2014

First panel for the library exhibition. History of the
origins of the war, from the military manoeuvres of 1913
to the end of 1914

Library

Margaret Webb, John
Sunderland

Fri 12 Sept

Greens Norton Community Choir singing contemporary
popular songs.

RBL club at
G. Norton

Jonathan Kingsley-Smith

Sat 13 Sept

WW1 themed exhibitions at the RBL clubhouse WW1
food, recreations, costumes, beers.

Greens
Norton RBL

Robbie Paice

Sat 13 Sept

“Show and Tell” for WW1 memorabilia, not necessarily
from our area. Photograph items, record oral history

Chantry House

John Morris, A.N.Other

Sun 21 Sept
Sun 19 Oct
Sun 16 Nov

Discussion and/or debate

tba

Revd. Ben Phillips.

Thu 25 Sept

“Life in Towcester during WW1”, a lecture

Library

Brian Giggins

Thur 16 Oct
7.30-9.30

A poetry event covering before and after the war, not just
life in the trenches.

Library

Martin Johns.

Fri 24 Oct

Turn Towcester Town Hall into a cinema, showing WW1
related films. Period dresses? Volunteers from Waitrose?

Town Hall,
mid week

Martin Johns, Waitrose

Sat 8 Nov

A WW1 concert, with the Studio Band and the Choral Society.
Profits to the RBL poppy appeal. Tickets at the door.

St.Lawrence

John Morris. Help from WI.
Budget?

before 11 Nov

Lecture “The Death of the 48th Regiment of Foot ...”

Town Hall

Martin MarixEvans

Date tba

Computer presentation on 1913 for schools, perhaps
incorporating the 1916 movies of the Somme (IWM)

 

Martin MarixEvans (and John
Kliene).

1918

Publication on the Towcester Area and the Great War
based on the RoH essays and other WW1 research.

 

whom?

 

A re-enactment event at the Museum, similar to that at
its official opening.

Towcester
Museum.

Feasibility needs investigating.

Last updated on 5th March 2014. David Wilcock