Public Speakers Corner

My local/family history/general interest talks - click on a title for more details

Easy as ABC (illustrated)

Singularities of Bodfish (with slides)

How We Lived Then (with slides)

Beer, Bets and Bull-Baiting (illustrated)

Cavalier Dogs and Rounhead Rogues (illustrated)

The Theatre Royal Fire Tragedy (illustrated)

The History of Smethwick (with slides)

Mad Dogs and Marie Marten

Smethwick in the Second World War (illustrated)

The Mollett Family of Smethwick Grove (illustrated)

Early Years at Soho

Skulduggery at Soho

The following talks are of particular interest to Smethwick - please phone me if you would like to know more - my contact details are below

Blue Gates and Beyond (illustrated)

Strange Tales From Smethwick (illustrated)

The Landscape of Warley (with slides)

Bygone Bearwood

From the Bear to the Barleycorn

Made in Smethwick

Old Church to Londonderry

People of Smethwick

Round About Old Church

Smethwick in 1900

Smethwick New Village

Smethwick's Other Wars

The Lost Mansions of Cape Hill

Up and Down Spon Lane

Wanderings in Warley

Windmill Lane to Six Ways

My fee is £30 plus travelling expenses where appropriate

please contact me to discuss and arrange a booking

email: m.bodfish@aston.ac.uk
phone: 0121 429 6551