Lecture Programme 2017/18

Stewart Eliott

2017

Speaker

Subject of talk

2nd Oct

Stephen Guy

Forgotten Liverpool 

16th Oct

Pauline Hurst

Haydock Lodge – St Helens Family History Society

6th Nov

Stewart Eliott

The English Village from 1750 to the present day

20th Nov

Dr Jim Ford

Canadian Pacific – The company that spanned the world

4th Dec

Alan Davis

 Coal Mining in Lancashire

18th Dec

Jean Finney

The Origins of Nursery Rhymes

Followed by Social Evening with refreshments.

2018

Speaker

Subject of talk

15th Jan

 Glenn Hearnden

War Graves Commission

29th Jan

Alan Crosby

Place Names & Landscapes in Medieval Lancashire

5th Feb

Keith Hick

How Art Deco helped shape the 20th Century

19th Feb

Gordon Bartley ARPS

Fish & Chips … Little Ships… and North Sea Spray

5th Mar

Michael Murphy

Overhead Railway

19th Mar

 Derek Arnold

The Annual General Meeting to be followed by –

How the Royal Iris & Daffodil got their names