Osgodby Heritage & History Group

We are looking forward to our February meeting. All welcome to come along Members free Visitors £2 per person Shirley Sinclair will be our speaker. She will be sharing her “skeletons in the cupboard” she found when researching her family

We look forward to the New Year and organising meetings for 2023. We are delighted that our first meeting on 10 January 2023 has local historian and author David Lewis coming along to share his tale of a chance find

Christmas Social – some members of the Group had a Christmas social get-together and had a great night at The Wadkin Arms. We put on a good spread, so much so, we invited everyone in the pub to help themselves

Some members of the Group go quizzing at the Wadkin Arms (when the Quiz Night does not clash with a monthly meeting). It’s a fun night, and it’s the taking part that counts! If you want to join us, please

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:  Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them In October 2021, we

At our monthly meeting in November, we had an update on various “business” including having a quick look at the revised Heritage Trail. We await the installation of the interpretation/information boards by the Barlby & Osgodby Town Council. We then

As part of our Heritage Funded Project, we had a drone visit us for a morning taking aerial photograph and videos to record Osgodby in 2022. The Group had to decide on just 3 out of nearly 200 photographs to

All are welcome to come along to our monthly meeting to be held 8 November at 7 30 pm in the small rear room at Osgodby Village Institute. We will have on sale our aerial photographs and sets of postcards

Everyone knows about the Gunpowder Plot of November 1605, but do you know about the connections with Osgodby??? Mary Ward was living with her relatives, the Babthorpe’s, at Osgodby Hall in 1605.  She had many suitors who she turned down

We are now having a major up-date of the website. Although it went “live” in March of this year, we continued to add items, learning as we went along, and contacting Tom to say “how to you do this?” “Where