Monthly meetings are held at Christ ChurchNeighbourhood Centre on a Thursday evening starting at 7.30 p.m. Note that the dates are  variable, i.e. not the same week of the month. We meet from September to June, and have a 2 month break in July and August.

Christ Church has the postal code BL0 0PX and is on Great Eaves Road. There is a car park at the back of the church.

There is a guest speaker and non-members are very welcome.

There is a charge of £2 for visitors and £1.50 for members, which includes refreshments.

The normal format is the leader welcomes the meeting with any news and outstanding business. There is then either part one of the talk, followed by a refreshment break, and then part two, or a refreshment break and then the main speaker if the talk cannot be split. The meeting usually finishes between 9 p.m. and 9.30 pm.

Programme for 2024

If you are interested in a particular talk, please check nearer the time that the subject is the same, as talks can move due to circumstances change.

 

November 7       Brian Furness : Blacksmiths to Surgeons

Brian tells the story of the Doctors of Whitworth.

 

December 5      Festive Christmas meeting 

Tickets are £8 to include a buffet. Please contact John via the contact page by the end of November if you would like tickets

 

2025

 

January 16              Andrew Todd  : The Lloyd George Census

The 1910 Survey of all 4581 properties in the parish of Ramsbottom.

February 13            Brian Groom : Made in Manchester

A People’s History of the City that shaped the Modern World.

March 13                Nigel Jepson:  Beeching Cuts of the 1960s, as they affected the East Lancashire Rail Network.

April 10                  Alan Davies:    The pit brow women of the Lancashire Coalfield

May 15                     AGM then Kevin Illingworth: Vernacular Buildings of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Pennines

June 12                   Anne Falloon:  The Byrons of Rochdale & Lord Byron’s Visit to Middleton