The annoying action in the website, that insists on re-keying the password every time you move from one ‘members only’ page to the other ‘members only’ page, has now been eliminated:

The two different passwords  for PUBLICATIONS DOWNLOADS and for ORDNANCE DOWNLOADS have now been merged into one – which is the existing password for PUBLICATIONS DOWNLOADS.

The latest Newsletter No. 153 is now available for download from the DOWNLOADS sub-page of the PUBLICATIONS page; and is available for members only. The Newsletter has also been e-mailed to Ordnance Society members, and will be posted to members who have opted for hard copy in the next few days.

THIS IS OUR FIRST MAJOR PRESS RELEASE:

PRESS RELEASE From Desk to Digitisation Sharing and Safeguarding an Important Archive of British Cannon Research

Two more papers for the AGM are now available for download:

Charles Trollope’s Archive Report

Website Report 2025

Please note that the AGM is an online Microsoft Teams meeting on Tuesday 10th February 2026 at 1900hr GMT.  If you would like to join, then please e-mail neilgrant2@yahoo.co.uk if you haven’t already done so.

The Agenda and Voting Slip for this AGM, and minutes of the previous AGM (for 2024, held in February 2025) are available below:

OS AGM Agenda 2025 (held Feb 2026)

OS AGM 2025 (held Feb 2026) Voting Slip

OS AGM 2024 MINUTES (Held Feb 2025)

The latest indices on the PUBLICATIONS pages have now been updated to include Newsletter No. 152.

The latest Newsletter No. 152 is now available for download from the DOWNLOADS sub-page of the PUBLICATIONS page; and is available for members only. The Newsletter has also been e-mailed to Ordnance Society members, and will be posted to members who have opted for hard copy in the next few days.

Neil Grant has come up with a great list of Visits in 2026.  There is always a limit on the number of places available for a visit, so it’s first come, first served.  I’ve booked my first one already!

The latest update to the Ordnance Society’s National Artillery Survey has been uploaded to the website.  There are now 590 guns listed in our survey, many of which are linked to photos on our Flickr page. of the individual guns.  The latest addition is a very rare and old French RBL gun, of 1877 vintage, which was recovered from a torpedoed, armed merchant ship, the SS Eastfield.  A history of the gun, the ship, its loss, and the subsequent recovery of the gun, is published in our next Newsletter.

The date of the Ordnance Society  ONLINE AGM has now been fixed for Tuesday 10^th February 2026, and papers for this will follow in due course.  Nominations (and volunteers) for members of the Board are most welcome.  Please send these to the Hon Sec:   aghada_hall@yahoo.co.uk