A talk by Gordon Bartley ARPS. This presentation reveals the true beauty of the North Yorkshire coast from Bridlington to Robin Hood’s Bay and concludes in that vibrant photographic gem – WHITBY – home of proper (Yorkshire) fish and chips! Brief Photographic Biography of the speaker. I first became involved with photography as a …
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How Art Deco helped shape the 20th Century
A talk by Keith Hick. Describing the origins and influence of the Art Deco period spanning the 1920’s and 1930’s, the talk embraces all aspects of the genre including Architecture, Art & design, Furniture, Fashion, Jewellery, Poster Art, Transport, Ceramics and Sculpture. Something for everyone!
Place Names & Landscapes in Medieval Lancashire
A talk by Alan Crosby. Place-names are a vital source of historical evidence about landscape and settlement in the 1500 years from the Roman period to the early Middle Ages. The languages in which they were coined, and their hidden or specialised meanings, reveal so much about how our distant forebears saw and identified …
Canadian Pacific – The company that spanned the world
A talk by Dr Jim Ford. Find out more about the influence and effect of this company as it developed.
The Origins of Nursery Rhymes
A talk by Jean Finney A talk about the origin of nursery rhymes how far back they go. It’s amazing just what we have taught our children and grandchildren all these years, without knowing what terrible things are being referred to. Followed by Social Evening with refreshments.
Coal Mining in Lancashire
A talk by Alan Davis The photographic record of the Lancashire coal industry from the arrival of photography to the latest explorations and opencast sites. Alan worked in mining at five collieries, Parkside, Coventry, Bickershaw, Castle Drift, Wigan and Hilltop Colliery, Bacup. Also studied mining at St Helens College. Studied art and design at Wigan and Bristol for four years gaining his Ba (Hons). Curator of the Lancashire Mining Museum, …
Haydock Lodge – St Helens Family History Society
A talk by Pauline Hurst A history of this little known Lodge, and how a scandal of the treatment of patients in the 1840’s changed the way mental health patients would be treated in the future. It was later developed into a residential home by the mid 1900’s. Research has been taken from local …
Forgotten Liverpool
A talk by Stephen Guy Local historian Stephen Guy, journalist and broadcaster, takes a look at some of his favourite historic buildings, sites and people in his talk Forgotten Liverpool: Merchant Palaces and Personalities. He follows paths in time from thatched hovels to gothic mansions, looking at how the city’s tide of wealth …
Annual General Meeting
Annual General Meeting, plus, a lecture by Mr D Murphy. Historical Milestones in the development of the Merseyside Fire Brigade. (Illustrated) History of this emergency service from its inception to the present day.
Lancashire Women in WWI
A talk to be given by Ms Marianne Howell We discover their impact on Lancashire towns. (Illustrated)
Ince Blundell Book Launch
BOOK LAUNCH Saturday 11th February 12.00 – 3.00 pm Free entry The book: This book investigates the important antiquities collection formed by Henry Blundell of Ince Blundell Hall outside Liverpool in the late eighteenth century. Consisting of more than 500 ancient marbles—the UK’s largest collection of Roman sculptures after that of the British Museum—the …
Our Egyptian Collection & Exhibition
A talk given by Ms A Goodeson. This illustrated talk takes us behind the scenes of the Atkinson Museum. This is a private Collection of Egyptian artefacts dating from 3,000 BC to 200 AD. 40 boxes of treasure have been in storage since 1974 when the Bootle Museum closed and are now part of a …
The “Danny” a steamship with a unique story.
A talk given by Ms G Hayes. The story details a maritime and social history and importantly today a personal story of restoration from a team of committed volunteers. The Daniel Adamson is a remarkable survivor from the steam age and a most unusual vessel. She was built at Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead …
AGM – Mr Roger Blaxall: A Lanky Quiz, plus Social Evening
The AGM followed by ‘A Lanky Quiz’, all to be a surprise and with prizes, then the Social Evening.
Rev Sylvia Jacquest: Ormskirk Life in the Early Months of WW1
A story of how the opening year of WW1 effected the people of Ormskirk, as deduced by reading copies of the Advertiser for the period.
Mr D Charters: The American Indian Wars.
A fascinating and deeply moving account of the wars fought by American Indians to protect their homeland.
Mr Tony Sweeney: The 1918/19 Flu Pandemic.
The serious effects of the virus on the Sweeney family and studies of the causative organism,
Mr Graham Kemp: Lancaster Castle
A history of Lancaster Castle and why it sits at the heart of the history of Lancashire.
Gerard Swarbrick: Put it on the Map
The evenings presentation was given by the widely known local Cartographer and long term member of the society. Mr Swarbrick brought with him three of his own local area maps showing details in a clearly discernible way. The main theme of the evening however was to describe the publications by the great cartographers over …
Angela Danby: Historic Crime reports.
Angela Danby – Her subject was mainly a review of extracts from the Southport Visiter (Spelling is correct) from it’s first publication in 1844 and she referred to murders a suicide vagrancy and damage to the Pier by shipping.
Records Office Preston
Records Office visit on 14 May 2014. Twelve members travelled by car to the Lancashire Archives Office in Preston. Archivist, Kathryn Newman was our hostess for the evening and had displayed items concerning Ormskirk and its surrounds which she felt would be of interest to us. We were privileged to see letters from King …
Visit to Allerton Castle – 29 April 2014
Allerton Castle visit. WOW!! What a day!! Thirty two members left Ormskirk at 9.30am to visit Allerton Castle, near Knaresborough in Yorkshire, a Grade 1 listed building, It is one of the grandest surviving elegant Gothic stately homes, which has been restored after a serious fire. It is a magnificent building steeped in history …
Mr Michael Kelly: Mothers of the City, Outstanding Liverpool Women
Mr Kelly has published books about Ladies from his favourite city. 1900 Rose Heilbron, of Jewish background her parents were from Russia,who gained a First Class Honours Degree in Law at Liverpool UNi in 1935 followed by a Masters in1937 she became the first female ”silk’ and an outstanding Barrister. She defended 10 …
Anna Watson: Wives Widows and Spinsters, Women did make wills.
Very few women did make wills but certain individuals and categories did. Probate records from the Diocese of Chester going back to 1541 exist and are held at the Preston Archivists office and cover a considerable Geographic area covering North Wales South Lancashire and across to York. There has always been an ambition …
Gavin Hunter: Lord of The Isles
Mr Hunter’s subject desrcibed the changing fortunes of Lord Leverhulme his purchase of the Isles of Lewios and Harris in the outer Hebrides. His Lordship’s fortune was of course derived from his highly succesful soap manufacturing company based at Port Sunlight and other locations in England. He was born in 1851 and had …
Professor Nigel Linge: Building The Worlds First Global Network
IN 1837 Charles Whetstone and William Cooke demonstrated the needle telegraph system to send messages on the London Bimingham railway system. The Magnetic Telegraph Company approached John Pender, a Scot who had moved to Manchester and become a succesful cotton merchant, for funds and in 1856 he invested in the company and joined …
Pamela Nanson: The Treasure Trove of Historical Events
From a delve into her archive box.
Jenny Barrett: Birth of a Nation
In 1989 Sheffield City Council backed protest about the screening of DW Griffith’s film ‘The Birth of a Nation'(1915) for fear of racist repercussions. The manager of the cinema was quoted as saying that it was so old nobody would take it seriously. Then in 1993 when the film was scheduled for broadcast …
Richard Houghton: HMS Ringtail
There is no such bird as ‘Ringtail’ The Royal Naval Air Squadron was formed in 1914 and had 2 Squadrons on the Western Front in 1915 and as at today is active in Afghanistan. The base was built on the outskirts of Burscough in 1942 and was celebrated in 2013 as part of …
Richard Houghton: HMS Ringtail
We are grateful to the speaker for agreeing at short notice to deliver this talk as Mrs Pam Nanson was unable to give her programmed talk that evening now deferred to 27th January 2014. Royal Navy Air squadron HMS Ringtail was set up at Burscough in1942. The RNAS was set up in 1914 …
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