January 2012
Suggestions for development of the Fylde History Network are welcome.
Please email mc.storey@btinternet.com
For further information please email or phone
PETER SHAKESHAFT 01253 720852 peter.shakeshaft@btinternet.com
CHRISTINE STOREY 01253 885167 mc.storey@btinternet.com
The FYLDE HISTORY NETWORK
The Fylde History Network was set up in January 2010 by Peter & Maureen Shakeshaft and Christine Storey.
We were aware that a good deal of research is being done across the Fylde which would be of great interest to all local historians in the area, but that there was no system for liaising and communicating between the local societies. The idea of developing a network for local historians and the dozen or so Local History Societies in the Fylde – from Pilling in the north to Lytham and from Blackpool in the west to Garstang – was born.
Peter has written two books – ‘St Anne’s on the Sea – a History’ and ‘The History of Freckleton’, both published by Carnegie and Christine has produced a ‘Guide & History of Poulton’ published by Tempus and a book of photographs of Poulton published by Bob Dobson.
The inaugural meeting was held in Staining on January 16th 2010. Dr Alan Crosby spoke about the Fylde and introduced the idea of local historians in the Fylde working together. Discussions followed as to how local historians and societies in the Fylde might make use of these new contacts, by sharing ideas for speakers, research topics and information about the history of the area and how the Fylde History Network could be developed.
The inaugural meeting was funded by the Lancashire Local History Federation to which many Local History Societies belong.
Three further events have been arranged: the Fylde History Network hosted the LLHF annual ‘At Home’ in St Anne’s in October 2010; a Local History Day was held in Staining on March 26th 2011 and in October 2011 a conference with the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire marked the 500th anniversary of the first Manorial Court of the Cliftons in Lytham.
