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We are organising a trip to Lichfield on Thursday 7 May 2026. The coach will leave Bedworth at 10.00am, and we head for Lichfield Cathedral, who are currently hosting an exhibition called "The Longest Yarn: Britain at War". The exhibition is 80 meters long, and is scenes from World War II in knitting - including the D Day landings and the Royal Family on the balcony at Buckingham Palace. The coach will leave Lichfield at 3.30pm.
No-one is obliged to see the exhibition, and there are lots of other attractions in the centre of Lichfield to visit.
Cost to members is £12.00 and non-members £15.00. Entrance to the exhibition is by donation.
If you would like to join us, or have any queries, please contact us at
Ryan put on a very successful Jurassic Exhibition, and hopes his new exhibition, "What's your game?". will be even better. The exhibition opened on 30 January, and will be open on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10.30am until 1.00pm. The exhibition is very much interactive, and as well as the traditional games of chess and noughts and crosses, you can have a go at Shove H'penny and more modern electronic games. Come along and remember all those games you played - and learn some new ones.
We now have a Facebook page for The Bedworth Society and Heritage Centre. Find out the latest news and photographs of old Bedworth.
Follow the link from the Facebook icon at the top of the page. We hope soon to have a link to a library of Flashback Fridays, so anyone without a Facebook account can see the items produced by John Burton.
As the local civic society, The Bedworth Society were offered a place on the board of Believe in Bedworth, who are responsible for overseeing how the £20 million awarded to Bedworth over the next 10 years can be spent.
Lynda Greasley usually attends the Believe in Bedworth meetings on behalf of The Bedworth Society, so if you have any queries, or ideas of a project you think the board should be looking at, please let Lynda Greasley know.
Our President, John Burton, has been made a Freeman of the Borough in Nuneaton and Bedworth. This is in recognition of all his work with the Bedworth Society, Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre and George Eliot Fellowship. We send John our congratulations on this well deserved award.
When Bill Basra met John at a recent Bedworth Society Meeting, no wonder he was delighted to meet "THE John Burton".
The next meeting is on Monday 11 May 2026, which is an illustrated talk by Adam Wood on the Trial of Lord Lucan
After that our next meeting will be 1 June, when Danielle and Cameron from Bedworth Physical Hub will come along and tell us all how we can benefit from the recently opened new facility in Bedworth.
Please let us know if you there is a speaker you think would like to come along to a meeting, or anything you would like to hear about. Just contact our Chair, Lynda Burton (details below)
Lynda Burton can be contacted on 0770 7093335 or email