Geoffrey Walter Smith Fund

When Geoffrey Walter Smith (1929- 1998) died he left the Club a collection of photographs and a substantial financial legacy, although he was not a Club member. He lived quietly in Hereford in a road not far from the Rose & Crown pub on the Ledbury Road. There is an article about him and his photographs in A Herefordshire Miscellany, 2000, pp.27-36.
It was decided that the Club should set up a fund in his name and use the income from his legacy to support publications about Herefordshire within the Club’s sphere of interest. Latterly the club has also made grants from the fund towards projects such as archaeology. Many of the publications have benefited from extra help with the cost of colour illustrations, for example. A list of publications supported is given below.
More information about applying for a grant from the fund can be found by contacting the GWS chairman via CONTACT US. Grants must be sought well before printing and publication.

GRANTS TO DATE

2003	A. Bryan	Booklet on the history of houses in Bodenham
2004	Geology Section	Grant to start up section newsletter
2005	B.S. Smith	Colour illustrations for Herefordshire Maps 1577 to 1800
2005	M.A. Faraday	Publication by WNFC of Herefordshire Taxes in the reign of Henry VIII
2007	Kathryn Davies	Subsidy towards publication of Secular wall-paintings in the Welsh Marches
2007	Beryl Lewis	Subsidy to Kington History Society towards publication of Boundary landscapes.
2008	M.A. Faraday	Subsidy for Herefordshire probates and administrations 1407-1541
2008	Geology Section	Loan for publication of a CD of an event in the section
2009	Jean Currie	Colour illustrations for Three centuries of a Herefordshire village – Putley.
2010	Geology section	Grant towards Herefordshire; Its geology and scenery (published 2017)
2010	Beryl Harding	Illustrations for History of Lower House Farm, Tupsley
2010	H. Hurley	Illustrations for The Green Lanes of Herefordshire
2010	B. Smith	Subsidy for Turnastone: Stability and change in the Herefordshire Countryside 1800-2000.
2012	A. Malpas	Subsidy to Leominster History Study Group towards the publication of Hymns Ancient and Modern and Henry Williams Baker. A Herefordshire vicar and his Hymn Book.
2013	J. Cooper	Grant to Herefordshire Victorian County History (VCH). Parish history of Eastnor
2014	B. Voss	Grant to Eardisland Local History Group for analysis of pottery.
2014	Allan Wyatt	Subsidy towards publication of A History of Edvin Loach by Bromyard Local History Society.
2014	A. Malpas	Grant towards Leominster Museum republishing a booklet on Leominster in the Great War.
2016	J. Cooper	Grant to Herefordshire VCH. Parish history of Bosbury
2017	J. Lumby	Illustrations for Poems and Paintings of Herefordshire
2017	H. Tomlinson	Subsidy for Hereford Cathedral School. A History over 800 years.
2018	D. Whitehead	Subsidy for catalogue for the Repton exhibition Autumn 2018 ‘In the Enemy’s Quarters’: Humphry Repton in the West Midlands
2019	Woolhope Club	Grants for scanning the Transactions from 1890 to 2002 and additional volumes to be made available
2020	J. Cooper	Subsidy to Herefordshire VCH. Parish history of Colwall.
2022	T. Wall	Grant towards the publication of Downton Gorge: The Matchless Valley
2024	J. Comber	Subsidy to Herefordshire VCH. Parish history of Cradley
2024	A. Harbour	Grant towards the display boards, Blackfriars Rose Garden
2025	H. Tomlinson	Offer of a grant towards illustrations of new work on the writings of Lady Brilliana Harley
2026	D. Thompson	Grant towards illustrations of new book, The Hereford Gospels.
2026	D. James	Offer of a grant towards the publication of an important book on the timber-framed buildings of Herefordshire.