In 1982 half a dozen people under the chairmanship of the Rector, John
Lawson, began to investigate the history of the area.

Newcomers looked up the records in Shrewsbury, Ruthin and Aberystwyth, working with the local people whose memories in some cases stretched back to the early years of the 20th century. Church records, school log books and old copies of the Advertiser in Oswestry Library's local history collection, provided a surprising amount of information about people in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The group has issued a series of local history magazines - nine up to the present - with contributions from Canon Maurice Ridgway, John Lawson, Jessie Hanson and Harry Ruckley among others.

Meetings are held between September and March, on the fourth Tuesday in the month, with talks on subjects of local interest as well as reminiscences by older members of the community, both Welsh and English.

Meetings are held in the village hall at 7:30pm

September 28th 2004
AGM & Erika Morgan on Racecourse Management Acheivements & Ambitions

October 26th 2004
Dorothy Nicolle on Brother Cadfael, The Fact behind the Fiction

November 23rd 2004
Glyn Jones on "Was it so good in the good old days?" - A look through local school log books.

December 7th 2004
Christmas Party

January 25th 2005
Leslie Oppitz on the Potts Line

February 22nd 2005
John Hainsworth on Y Dolydd

March 22nd 2005
AGM & Dave Morris & John Thompson on Forty Years on the Hindford St, Martins Canal

April 26th 2005
Annual Dinner