2022 programme
Date | Name | Subject |
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12 Jan | Christmas meal at George’s in Worsley | |
26 Jan | Rick McGarry | Local explosions |
9 Feb | Mark Child | The Bridgewater Estates |
23 Feb | Alan Corbett | Walkden Textile Mills |
9 Mar | Sheila Thomas | ![]() Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee |
23 Mar | David Roughley | A whistle-stop tour of Manchester City Centre |
5 Apr | Andy Scutt | Full-day outing to Avro Heritage Museum and Bramhall Hall (Note: this outing is on a Tuesday) |
20 Apr | Hazel Walker and Marlene Walker | Mavis Hermione Sapple: a Salford childhood |
4 May | Anne McGarry | Suffragists and Suffragettes in Manchester and Salford |
18 May | David Astbury (guest lecturer) | ![]() Prince Albert: Consort and Manchester Man |
1 Jun | Paul Sherlock | The roots of Salford’s Mayoralty |
15 Jun | George Waterhouse | History of the County Palatinate in early maps |
29 Jun | Alan Corbett | Eccles cakes, wakes and guisings |
13 Jul | Andy Scutt | ![]() Full day outing to Saltaire |
27 Jul | Betty Baker and Anne McGarry | Lancashire at war |
10 Aug | No meeting | |
24 Aug | No meeting | |
7 Sep | Mark Child | ![]() James Nasmyth |
21 Sep | Sheila Thomas | A walk along Deansgate |
5 Oct | Mary McBride | ![]() William Cowherd: a vegetarian pioneer |
19 Oct | Andy Scutt | Manchester Streets and Manchester Men |
Sat 29 Oct | 10:00-16:00 Local Histories Festival at Fletcher Hall, Swinton | |
2 Nov | Hugh Jones | A paranumismatic ramble around Salford and Manchester |
16 Nov | Amos Millington | ![]() Manchester Cathedral and a history of its environs |
30 Nov | David Pease | A famous opera singer died in Manchester? |
14 Dec | David Roughley | A trip down Memory Lane, 1936 – 1957, looking at how music and dance evolved over those 21 years |