Newsletter 125 January – March 2011

Material for Newsletter 126 by March 14th to Jonathan Harlow, Hardings Cottage, Swan Lane, Winterbourne BS36 1RJ jonathan.harlow@uwe.ac.uk

Editorial This is more or less how your Newsletter would look if you took it by e-mail. We can drop the columns and the closer printing which we use in the printed form (to save postage and printing, our biggest costs), but which some people have told us is tiresome to read on screen. If this would persuade you to switch to the e-version, please let us know. Perhaps we should also point out that regardless of how we format the text, you can easily alter the way you see it on screen for yourself. If you have the good fortune still to be using Word 2003 or an earlier version, then your Standard Toolbar contains a little box with a default value of 100%. You can use the drop-down arrow by it to alter this and view your Newsletter in the screen size you like. (If you have the misfortune to be using Word 2007, you will have to open the View toolbar and click on the box which says Zoom.) More radically yet, you can go to Edit – Select All – Format – Font or Paragraph and give yourself the version you always wanted ALHA News A. L. H. A. 35th A.G.M. October 22nd 2010. This was held at the Knowle Community Centre, in Redcatch Road, Knowle. The centre has been refurbished to award winning standard, and the meeting was hosted by the Totterdown & Knowle Society. After a welcome by the president, Roger Angerson, the secretary, Elizabeth White, gave a report on the year's activities. The association has grown; it now has some 80 member societies, who represent over 10, 000 members. It was sad to see that only 20 people had turned up from the societies, represented only half a dozen of the societies who are members of A.L.H.A. which has the central aim of assisting and promoting local history in the area. To do that the Executive Committee needs more feed back from the societies themselves. Representatives are welcome at any committee meeting, the dates of which are always given in the Newsletter. It has been a year of mixed success. The Local History Day, 'Women in Public Life', was reckoned by some to be the best A.L.H.A. has ever arranged, but it was not well supported. Perhaps the title did not enthuse, and did not reveal the wide range of subjects that were so well presented, or perhaps all the information was too late. Expect changes in 2011! The launching of the booklet series, now reaching to number 6, has gone better than expected. All are selling, and future booklets can be produced from the income already received.