Church recording will recommence at St Giles in April 2014. For our first session this year we will meet at the Church at 10 am on Wednesday 9 April. Recording of metalwork, textiles, library and windows has been completed. This year we will be recording woodwork and memorials in the church. Anyone who would like to come along to see what we are doing are more than welcome. Volunteers help as and when they can, not necessarily every week. It is intended that future sessions will be held on a Monday or Wednesday at 10 am.

The new Essex Area website was launched at the recent Area meeting on the 17th February. Go to the Links page and you can access the Site. It gives you details of Area events and information about all the Essex NADFAS Societies Click here for the website

Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate & Pugin’s House, The Grange, Ramsgate. A trip to the Kent coast to visit these acclaimed places and following our March lecture on Augustus Pugin. Click here for more details and the Booking Form

The March lecture by Nicola Smith is on Thursday 6th March. The subject is Augustus Pugin an English architect & designer – very influential in the Gothic Revival. Click here for more details and the BIO

Chairman, Sue Roache and members of the BDFAS Committee welcomed new members of the Society to a Coffee Morning on Friday 24th January. The Church Room at Wickham Bishops St Bartholomew’s Church was the venue; and everyone enjoyed a pleasant morning getting to know each other and looking at the various Volunteering areas that Blackwater is involved in.Click here for a photographic album