The one-day meeting was
held at Grey College, Durham, in memory of Victor Watts, whose portrait is shown here. It was organised by the English Place-Name Society and the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland.
The Programme is given below
10.30 Assemble at Grey College.
11.00 Welcome and Introduction.
11.15 Professor Richard Coates (University of Sussex): "Victor Watts's legacy in the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names"
l2.00 Dr Paul Cavill (University of Nottingham): "Victor Watts and The Place-Names of County Durham"
12.45 Lunch
(The picture shows Professor Hywel Wyn Owen introducing Dr Margaret Gelling's
lecture.) 2.15 Dr Margaret Gelling, OBE (University of Birmingham): "Landscape and place-names in the North-East"
3.15 Dr David Parsons (University of Nottingham): "Cock-shoots and cot-settles: some vocabulary of English place-names"
4.00 Tea
4.30 Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre (University of Nottinghanl); "The Middle English poem Pearl"
5.15 Dr Corinne Saunders and Professor David Fuller (University of Durham): Readings from Pearl (in the original and in Victor Watts's modernisation)
6.30 Assemble for dinner. During dinner short memoirs of Victor Watts will be offered.