Cusop History Group
2015 Events
Cusop Pop-Up Museum on July 5th and 6th 2015, held at Cusop Village Hall.
Around 50 people attended on each of the days and great interest was generated.
See more detailed photos of the artefacts brought to the pop-up museum on our Artefacts page.
On September 20th 2015, villagers came and drank tea, camp coffee, ate scones and jam, home made cakes and spam sandwiches. They chatted and read war time newspapers.
Tim Hoverd from Herefordshire Archaeology led an enthusiastic and interesting history walk on October 4th 2015, starting at Cusop Castle, walking along Cusop Dingle and ending at Cusop Church for tea.
On November 21st 2015 Dr Derek Wilson and Dave Bennett shed new light on the case of the solicitor from Cusop hanged for the murder of his wife in 1922.
Dave Bennett's book "Major Injustice - The Case of Herbert Rowse Armstrong" explains how Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong was found guilty of poisoning his wife Katherine and was hanged for murder on 31st May 1922. and introduces a completely new theory about how Katherine might have died.