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Elizabeth Trout of the Mills Archive explains the role of mills and millers with particular reference to the many watermills on Berkshire's rivers. The archive's collections show the rich and diverse crafts, buildings, machinery, equipment of Berkshire's mills, with a wealth of information about mill-owners and the people who worked in them - rich detail for family and social historians alike. All welcome. Free parking. Refreshments. Good company.

Non-members are invited to make a £3 donation towards costs.

Enquiries to newbury@berksfhs.org.uk

or see www.berksfhs.org.uk

A searing drama of love and revenge, set among New York's Italian-American immigrant community. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife Beatrice and their niece Catherine. When Beatrice's impoverished Sicilian cousins enter the US illegally, Eddie gives them a helping hand. But when Catherine and one of the cousins fall in love, Eddie's affection for his niece turns into obsession. Tragedy beckons.

Happy Jack is a funny and touching play about Jack and Liz, a couple inspired by John Godber's own grandparents. Weaving through 60 years of marriage, the pair introduce us to the characters they have known in their Yorkshire mining village and take us through love, sadness, anger, joy and conflict, from courtship to retirement and much in between.

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the end of WWI the artist Robert Fitzmaurice will present a solo exhibition of paintings, prints and mixed media that considers the nature of the soldier from ancient times to the present day.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/events/d59c668b-65e6-4377-b85d-0ab7a3c66b9d/pages/details

This summer Oxfordshire's Bohun Gallery will be examining John Piper's travels around the British Isles and his contribution towards the protection and maintenance of our English Heritage.

An Exhibition of Paintings by Katie Tattersdill.

www.katietattersdill.com