MVP Newsletter Apr 2026

We continue to enjoy good numbers at our monthly meeting, and we started the year, as always, with our Christmas party in January, delicious food and drink, and several quizzes to tax our brains. In February, Katie Amos, the Local Studies Lead at Reading Libraries showed us a selection of historic photos from their enormous collection, which included views of Reading as well as Mortimer, and she also showed us how to access the collection online, a very useful tool. Malcolm Summers, a former maths teacher and deputy head at the Willink School, came to talk to us about the founder of the school, Henry George Willink, in our March meeting, and several of his former pupils joined us! Our April meeting saw Carolyn talk about the vast selection of 15th and 16th century wills we have, which were all transcribed and digitised by the original members of the MLHG, a mammoth task. And our May meeting took the form of a drop-in session, to give members and others the chance to see some of the documents and items we have in the archives, but which rarely see the light of day.

Turners Arms circa 1900?