Handsworth Historical Society was formed in 1952 and since 1978 has occupied half of the building known as ‘Handsworth Old Town Hall’. This is a Grade 2 listed cruck cottage built about 1460 and we run our half of it as a community museum about Handsworth.
PROGRAMME 2024
Saturday 9 March Coffee Morning
Thursday 21 March Black Country Miners – illustrated talk by Keith Robinson
Saturday 13 April Coffee Morning
Thursday 18 April Forgotten Brummies – illustrated talk by Les Williams
Saturday 11 May Coffee Morning plus cake sales and plant swap/sales
Thursday 16 May Formation of the Home Guard – illustrated talk by David Morse
Saturday 22 June Handsworth Wood in Bloom
Saturday 13 July Coffee Morning
Saturday 10 August Coffee Morning
Saturday 14 September Heritage Open Day – 10am to 5pm
Thursday 19 September – Annual General Meeting plus Shakespeare, Flowers, and Shakespeare Gardens – ‘talk by Mary Bodfish’
Saturday 12 October – Coffee Morning
Thursday 17 October – Second City Executions – talk by David Humphreys
Saturday 9 November – Coffee Morning
Thursday 21 November – Breweries in Birmingham – talk by Jayne Heathcote
Saturday 14 December – Coffee Morning
Speaker Meetings: New Church Centre, Winleigh Road (off Church Lane), Handsworth Wood, B20 2HN, at 2.00pm (adjacent car park). Members £3.00, visitors £4.00, including refreshments.
Coffee Mornings: Old Town Hall, corner of Slack Lane/College Road, Handsworth, B20 2JL, 10.00am to 1.00pm. Admission free.
NB: Apart from Coffee Mornings and other events, the Old Town Hall is only open by appointment
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