Compassionate Quakers Join us on a walk around some of the key places associated with the story of the Quakers in Leominster, including Henry Stanley Newman, founder of the Orphan's Press and associated children's home. Tuesday, 19 May, 11 - 1 Meet outside the...
TUESDAY 19 MAY
Hereford and District Working Boys’ Home
The industrial school was a classic setting for the application of rigid but well-meaning Victorian educational values. Shirley Dalley has devoted many years to the search for evidence of Hereford’s example and the poor boys who were brought here from across the...
Wellington Dovecote
In Wellington, the Stocks House dovecote is a very fine example of a dovecote. It’s early 18th century, octagonal with “diaper patterns in flared headers” – the brickwork patterns outside. The interior is circular and there are row upon row of nests, reaching all...
Tour of Knights Templar Church
HISTORICAL GARWAY The earliest record of a monastery in Garway is 615 AD, but it was with the arrival of the Knights Templar in 1180 that the history of the church becomes clearer. The first stone built Church on the site of the present church was established around...
Historic Hereford Guided Walks
Hereford is a historic Cathedral City with a fascinating past and a busy present. Its origins lie in the 7th century and its strategic site on the Wye, in the much-disputed borderland between England and Wales, made it as important to the Saxons as to the Normans and...
Compassionate Quakers
Compassionate Quakers Join us on a walk around some of the key places associated with the story of the Quakers in Leominster, including Henry Stanley Newman, founder of the Orphan's Press and associated children's home. Tuesday, 19 May, 11 - 1 Meet outside the...
Hereford and District Working Boys’ Home
The industrial school was a classic setting for the application of rigid but well-meaning Victorian educational values. Shirley Dalley has devoted many years to the search for evidence of Hereford’s example and the poor boys who were brought here from across the...
Wellington Dovecote
In Wellington, the Stocks House dovecote is a very fine example of a dovecote. It’s early 18th century, octagonal with “diaper patterns in flared headers” – the brickwork patterns outside. The interior is circular and there are row upon row of nests, reaching all...
Tour of Knights Templar Church
HISTORICAL GARWAY The earliest record of a monastery in Garway is 615 AD, but it was with the arrival of the Knights Templar in 1180 that the history of the church becomes clearer. The first stone built Church on the site of the present church was established around...
Historic Hereford Guided Walks
Hereford is a historic Cathedral City with a fascinating past and a busy present. Its origins lie in the 7th century and its strategic site on the Wye, in the much-disputed borderland between England and Wales, made it as important to the Saxons as to the Normans and...