At the annual meeting, Nick Hughes and Chas Townley were re-elected chairman and vice-chairman respectively.

The chairman referred to the recent death of Dr Graeme Wilcox, paying tribute to him as a valued and active founding member of the society, and former chairman of its architecture and environment committee.

Andrew Miller, principal of Kidderminster College, gave a talk on the recent history of the college, and the reasons for the decision to move the campus to a new site in the centre of Kidderminster.