All meetings start at 7.30 pm in the Farmor Room at Fairford Community Centre except for the January and February meetings both at 2.30 pm this year. There are no meetings in July, August and December
Fairford History Society 2025-26 Programme
16 October Fairford Memories through audio and film from the Archive. Due to the US Government shutdown, the USAF have cancelled all off-base engagements so the Lockheed U-2 talk has been cancelled.
20 November Titanic Effort! – R.M.S. Carpathia’s dash to save a stricken liner amongst the frozen ice flows of the North Atlantic by Paul Barnett. Fairford’s link with the Titanic was that the Countess of Rothes, Mrs McFie lived in Fairford in the 1950s.
2026
15 January at 2.30 pm Gloucestershire men at the Battle of Waterloo by Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter, KCVO, OBE, DL
19 February 2.30 pm Fairford in Close up by Edwin Cuss
19 March ‘On two wheels – the fascinating story of the bicycle by Bill King
16 April Brief History of Tetbury by Jane Haines
21 May Misericords by Miles Dodd
18 June Gloucestershire Follies by Jonathan Holt
All meetings reports are issued in the Fairford Flyer.