January 2012

SPEAKERS

JANET EDMUNDS

 

jedmunds@phonecoop.coop    01772 865796

 

HISTORY OF GOOSNARGH MILL                          fee £30

 

PETER SHAKESHAFT

 

peter.shakeshaft@btinternet.com  01253 720852

 

FRECKLETON

Aspects of Freckleton

Industrial Freckleton

 

The History of Freckleton Marsh

Religion in Freckleton

Freckleton – Freckleton Club Day 1800 – 1914

 

St ANNES

St Annes - the first 25 years

Aspects of Heyhouses

 

WARTON

Warton Church 1722 - 1846

 

FYLDE

Law & Order in South Fylde 1600 – 1850

DICK GILLINGHAM  

 

gill.gillingham@uwclub.net     01253 890105

 

FISH AND SHIPS  History of Deep Sea Fishing from Fleetwood

 

DECIMUS BURTON Fleetwood’s Founding Architect

FREDERICK KEMP OF FLEETWOOD  The Man or the Myth - Victorian Philanthropist

 

VICTORIAN PHILANTHROPISTS & THE NEW INDUSTRIAL SETTLEMENTS

 

THE HEYDAY OF THE BRITISH CIRCUS

 

THE PORT OF FLEETWOOD

 

 

CHRISTINE STOREY

 

mc.storey@virgin.net 01253 885167

 

POULTON - A Fylde Market Town

 

St CHAD’S - Poulton Parish Church

 

CARLETON  - The history of a township

 

AMOUNDERNESS - the early history of the Fylde

 

St JOHN the BAPTIST Catholic Church Poulton

MARTIN RAMSBOTTOM

 

martin.ramsbottom@btinternet.com

 

WORKHOUSES

 

POOR RELIEF

 

KIRKHAM

 

HUGH BARTON

hbgrefarn@btinternet.com     01772 690764

 

THE EMBROIDERY OF St MARY’S PRIORY LANCASTER

 

QUEEN VICTORIA’S LETTER

A look at history through a series of personal letters from Queen Victoria’s children 1850 - 1930

 

St KILDA - AN ENCHANTED ISLAND

 

SOME SMALLER ISLANDS OF THE HEBRIDES

 

LINDA BARTON

SPINNING A GOLDEN YARN

The story of Stephen Simpson’s Gold Thread works

 

St JOSEPH’S ORPHANAGE THEATRE STREET PRESTON

MIKE COYLE

 

mike.coyle@btinternet.com    01253 761778

 

WAR MEMORIALS as a RESOURCE

 

RESCUE, RESTORATION and RELOCATION of

WAR MEMORIALS

 

ANY TOPICS RELATED to WAR MEMORIALS, THEIR HISTORY and PLACE in the MODERN WORLD