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Quaker Family History Society Event - Exeter Devon 6th May
« on: Tuesday 02 May 17 00:04 BST (UK) »
Yes, Its our next meeting this Saturday  May 6th 2017 in Exeter! Share - Tell everyone. C Tellome along if you can for a great get together. Tell us all about your Devon Quaker family too
at
Friends Meeting House, Wynards Lane, Exeter, EX2 4HU

PROGRAMME   
10.30 am   Arrival tea/coffee   
10.55   Welcome
11.00   QFHS Member - ‘A Brief History of Exeter Meeting’
11.15   John Bell of Spicelands – ‘A History of Spicelands Meeting’
12.10   Dr. Paul Collins - QFHS Member:’ Experience of participation in 'Radical Spirituality’
(the Lancashire University online course on the early history of the Quakers.- new one starts 22nd May)
13.00   Lunch - (not provided, please bring your own food)
14.00   Peter Fisher – of Coldharbour Mill Museum - 'Thomas Fox and the Industrial Revolution in the Culm Valley'.
15.00   Dr Todd Gray - of the Devonshire Association -
‘The Historical Context to the late 17th and 18th century activity of Quakers in Exeter’
16:00   QFHS members - QFHS members short talks on their Devon Quakers
16:.30   Final discussion, tea and depart

Everyone welcome - you do not need to be a member of QFHS - bring a friend.

Small charge to cover costs - £5 per person 

Tea & Coffee will be available.

The Society bookstall will be present.

Getting there:
Exeter Meeting is near the centre of the town.
Off Western Way inner ring road through Exeter, signed Pavilion Place.
Limited Parking but two city car parks (pay) within easy reach
And an opportunity to visit Spicelands Meeting afterwards!


Thompsons (of Rothwell and Ackworth Yorkshire); Binns, Spence, Dougill (all Quakers); Langley (of Yaxley and Stilton Huntingdonshire and Wentworth, Yorkshire); Coopers (of Eakring, Notts.); Cock(c)roft (of Lancs. and Yorkshire); Marshall (of Derbyshire); Alp and Mills (of Beccles Suffolk)