The Local History Talks programme is run by HistoryFare to bring together like minded individuals with an interest in both military and local history.
The monthly talks usually take place on the 1st Thursday of the month at 20:00Hrs at:
Melton Mowbray Royal Air Forces Association Branch HQ
The Tornado Club
24 Asfordby Road
Melton Mowbray
Leicestershire
LE13 0HR
Admission charges are currently at a reasonable £3 per person per talk.
Tickets can be reserved for these talks via the Events page.
Talk Schedule
2024
| Date | Subject | Speaker |
| Thurs 4th January | Leicestershire Yeomanry | Peter Spooner |
| Thurs 1st February | Commemorative Air Force | Howard Aran |
| Thurs 7th March | Burma Death Railway | Brian Fare |
| Thurs 4th April | Sailing with the Queen – Life onboard the QE2 before and during the Falklands Campaign | Stephan Hallam |
| Thurs 2nd May | The Banana Jet Goes to War – Buccaneer & Tornado LGB Operations in Op GRANBY | Chris Finn |
| Thurs 6th June | 4th Parachute Brigade and US 82nd & RAF Saltby. | Brian Fare |
| Thurs 4th July | The 17th Regiment in America 1775-1783 | Alan Ball |
| Thurs 1st August | Melton’s First Casualty of the Great War | Phil Watson |
| Thurs 5th September | Melton Mowbray and the Crimean War | Brian Fare |
| Thurs 3rd October | Machine Gun Corps & Harrowby Camp | Malcolm Baxter |
| Thurs 7th November | High Society: Flying Foxhunters and Airborne Aristocrats | Jerry Heygate |
| Thurs 5th December | Melton Mowbray in WW2 | Brian Fare |
2023
| Date | Subject | Speaker |
| Tues 3rd January | RAF Melton Mowbray | Brian Fare |
| Tues 7th February | CWGC Architecture | Brian Fare |
| Tues 7th March | US 82nd Airborne | Adam Berry |
| Tues 4th April | Melton Mowbray Great War Fallen | John Cotterill |
| Tues 2nd May | RAF Saltby & 314th Troop Carrier Group | Brian Fare |
| Thurs 8th June | Loughborough Zeppelin Raid | Mel Gould |
| Thurs 6th July | Melton Mowbray Wellington Bomber Crash | Brian Fare |
| Thurs 3rd August | Battle of Losecoat / battle of Empingham | David Harvey |
| Thurs 7th September | 63 Squadron RAF | Mark Baxter |
| Thurs 5th October | Royal Flying Corps | Jed Jaggard |
| Thurs 2nd November | WW2 Defence of Melton Mowbray | Austin J Ruddy |
| Thurs 7th December | Xmas Social | N/A |
2022
| Date | Subject | Speaker |
| Tues 25th January | RAF Melton Mowbray Nuclear Missile Base | Brian Fare |
| Tues 1st February | Lest We Forget – War Memorials of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire & Rutland | Brian Fare |
| Tues 1st March | The Balloons going up | Brian Fare |
| Tues 5th April | “Девятнадцать девятнадцать 1919: The Red, The White and The Green” | Denis Kenyon |
| Tues 3rd May | Melton Mowbray Wicklow Lodge VAD Hospital | Derek Simmonds |
| Tues 7th June | Falklands War and the role of the RAF during the conflict | Brian Fare |
| Tues 5th July | Royal Observor Corps | Andy Porter |
| Tues 2nd August | Freckleton Air Disaster | Brian Fare |
| Tues 6th September | 156 Battalion Parachute Regiment | Brian Fare |
| Tues 4th October | Haunted RAF Stations | Andy Porter |
| Tues 1st November | The Melton Air Raid | Austin J Ruddy |
| Tues 6th December | Xmas Social | N/A |