Morris Garratt Memorial Lecture (Zoom) Thursday 8 September, 2022, 7.00pm Alan Crosby will speak on “The darkest of times? Life and death in the Manchester area in the mid-
In Lancashire and north Cheshire the mid-
Walk Round Park Bridge, Ashton-
Now a picturesque village in the Medlock Valley it was once home to the busy ironworks of Hannah Lees and Co and served by a canal and railway. It is said that rivets made there were used in the building of the Eiffel Tower. The walk is part of the Heritage Open Days events and is in conjunction with Tameside Local History Forum. Meet at the Heritage Centre car park (OL6 8AQ).
Castles conference, 15 October 2022 at Chester’s Grosvenor Museum.
A full day’s programme of speakers on castles in the North West is being arranged -
Zoom lecture Wednesday 2 November, 2022 at 2.00pm: '"She seems to have lost the power of looking after her husband and family and her home": family poverty and the welfare state in Cheshire, 1945-
Michael Lambert of the University of Birmingham will use this quote, taken from a social work report on a mother from Sale in the 1950s, as a route into exploring the topic of family poverty in Cheshire.
Zoom lecture Wednesday 7 December 2022, at 2.00pm: Old photographs of Manchester and the Wirral
Dr Ian Mitchell, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton, Centre for Historical Research, will speak on his grandfather’s photographs of Manchester and the Wirral taken in the 1890s and 1900s. Ian inherited 7 albums of photographs by this keen amateur photographer.
Contact secretary@landcas.org.uk for further details and to book a place at these events.
On Sunday 31 July 2022 Mike Nevell led a walk round Warburton looking at the late medieval and post-
On Sunday 8 May 2022 Terry Wyke led a walk round Manchester statues. Public statues have been in the news, so this was an opportune moment to look at them again and be reminded of the historical contexts which led to the commissioning and siting of some of the city's most prominent statues and monuments. Not all public memorials and statuary have survived so consideration was also be given to those many memorials which have been removed. We began in Piccadilly Gardens considering the statues raised on Joseph Paxton's esplanade before making our way towards Albert Square via St Peter's Square.
On Wednesday 13 April 2022 Melanie Giles talked about Bog Bodies.The well-
On Wednesday 9 February 2022 Professor Nick Mansfield of UCLAN spoke on Thomas Ferriar, Mancunian South American liberator. St Ann’s Church in central Manchester contains a memorial to the Ferriar family. This includes Thomas Ferriar (1785-
On Wednesday 2 March 2022 Brian Groom, a former senior editor at the Financial Times and editor of Scotland on Sunday, spoke on Northerners, from the Ice Age to the Present Day, based on his forthcoming book Northerners, A History. He laid out the dramatic events that created the north -
Other past LCAS events include:
Walk at the Bridgewater Canal, 22 August 2021
Walk round All Saints Manchester, 31 July 2021
Edge of Empire: Recording the Romans; Wigan, 5 October, 2019
Visit to Bolton Museum, 9 May 2019
Keeping up with the past; 12 May 2018
Catholic history day; Saturday 12 November 2016
Visit to Wardley Hall; Thursday 3 November 2016
Manchester in the Age of Mrs Gaskell; Saturday 28 November 2015
Visit to Clayton Hall; Saturday 9 May 2015