General Brock and the Maiwand Lion – 13th May 2024
A TADS talk by Mike Cooper
Monday 13th May 2024; 8.00 pm at Heath End Village Hall, Heath End Road, Baughurst, RG26 5LU
The Maiwand Lion in Forbury Gardens, Reading commemorates a battle fought in Afghanistan in 1880. The lion is posed in snarling defiance to the north – towards Russia. This talk looks at the Battle of Maiwand against the backdrop of Anglo- Russian rivalry in Asia – The Great Game and the history of the Lion itself.
TADS Newsletter by Richard Brown – Click HERE!
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With the current interest in the proposed housing development in south Tadley, here is a link to the recent TADS Paper on the Portway Roman road which runs close to the development.
The Portway and other Roman Roads in the Tadley area
And here is a link to a short video produced by TADS on the Portway’s route in south Tadley:
TADS’s Portway video
UPCOMING EVENTS
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| 1Project Group - Meeting 10:00 - 12:00Project Group - MeetingTime: 10:00 - 12:00 Limited to Project Group Members - 9:45 for 10am Tadley and District History Society, 5 Church Road, Pamber Heath, RG26 3DP Map | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| 4 | 5 | 6William Gill, a Victorian Explorer and Spy Online Talk 20:00 - 21:30  William Gill, a Victorian Explorer and Spy Online TalkTime: 20:00 - 21:30A fascinating online talk by Tony Hadland.
Captain William John Gill (10 September 1843 – 11 August 1882) was an English explorer and British army officer. He was born in Bangalore, India, the second child and elder son of the army officer, artist and photographer Major Robert Gill (1804 - 1879)
Apart from a monument in the crypt of St Paul's, William Gill is commemorated by a stained glass window in Rochester Cathedral (which has close links with the Royal Engineers), by the Royal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award and by the Gill Scholarships at Brighton College. William Gill brought back to England samples of a number of plant species hitherto unknown in the west. Some of these were given Latin names honouring Gill. They include the evergreen oak Quercus gilliana. He was even commemorated on a stamp!
Zoom Online Meeting - Details available shortly.
| 7 | 8Victory in Europe Remembrance Day Victory in Europe Remembrance DaySee our Website Exhibition
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