Meeting notes from Wednesday 19th March 2008
This is an informal list of what was discussed/decided at the well-attended (33 people) meeting.
Keith Henney gave us a most interesting talk about his early life and memories of Streetly.
Chairman Colin Boswell confirmed that the group belongs to the members.
It was decided that we would all give £1 per meeting and Frances Rose would be treasurer. We might have to pay a speaker, or pay to hire premises for the odd evening meeting, and admin would cost a small amount; also tea, coffee etc.
We will meet once a month on a Wednesday morning at Streetly Library, 10 a.m. - 12.00 noon, when the date of the next meeting will be decided.
A list of members will be made, in order to make attendance and payment easy to record.
The Chairman would like to know which members have computers, or are computer literate. Also, someone is needed for archiving research. Val Satchwell has agreed to list and/or take care of anything of interest brought to meetings.
Streetly Horticultural Society are to be asked to publicise our Group. Di Marfell is a committee member.
Di Marfell will ring the Sutton News and Express & Star newspapers to see if we can get free publicity for our meetings in the "What's On" columns.
The next meeting will be on Wed. 16th April at 10 a.m. - 12.00 noon.

The personal recollections, memories and stories of past and present Streetly residents which will be collected and recorded starting in 2008 to fill the gap in official local history files.

Contact Streetly website with any information you would like to contribute and see published on this new page.

Streetly Local History Group held its' first meeting on 4th March 2008
It was a very well attended and lively meeting. A small group of people agreed to help organise future events. Many thanks to everyone who gave this meeting their support and took time to bring so much interesting information and photographs for everyone to share. The next meeting on Wednesday, 19th March, 2008 from 10 - 12 will take place in Streetly Library on Blackwood Road. Everyone is welcome. Please bring along any details which we can start to archive - they don't have to be typed or spelt correctly - just legible! Also let us know what you would like to discuss ie; history of local pubs or perhaps a particular school or road. If you can't attend this meeting pop any details you may have into Streetly Library where the staff will pass them on. Evening meetings will be arranged too.

An excellent website for the personal accounts of people who either served or lived in Streetly area during World War WW2 based in the local area including Streetly, Little Aston and Aldridge can be found on The Home Guard website

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