21/9/2022 0 Comments Sad NewsIt is with great regret that LLHG has to report the death on 19 September of Stephen Read, our founding Secretary who held that office with distinction until ill-health obliged him to relinquish it in 2019. We will miss the enthusiasm and application he demonstrated and which was responsible for the success of LLHG projects from its inception in 2006 to date, and our condolences are extended to his wife Ruth and their daughters Amy and Emma, and their respective families.
0 Comments
12/9/2022 0 Comments LLHG 2022 season resumesWe kick off again on Thursday 15 September, with Dick O'Brien speaking to us about The Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 in Cumberland and Westmorland
As at Noon Monday 23 May, twelve people have asked to join the walk and have all been "booked in". Please would others wishing to join in contact the Secretary via the LLHG email address quickly as the size of the walking party is limited.
12/5/2022 0 Comments Latest UpdatesLLHG email address is changed to levenshistory22@gmail.com with effect from 22 May 2022
7/4/2022 0 Comments June Outdoor MeetingGreatGreat to be able to confirm that LLHG member Stuart Harling and some of his colleagues in the Cumbria Vernacular Buildings Group will guide us round the sights of Milnthorpe. Details to be announced nearer the date.
4/4/2022 0 Comments April 2022 Speaker MeetingThere's a change to the programme - the speaker we booked is not able to visit us as planned and we are trying to arrange another speaker to take over the slot with a different t talk. We weill keep you posted.
In February we successfully had a speaker meeting In-Person instead of via Zoom, but with some precautions. We intend to edge further toward normality for our March 17 meeting - fingers crossed!
Have a look at our "publications" page for a book about "BlindJohn" Gough, polymath and teacher, mentor to the celebrated natural scientist John Dalton, creator of "Dalton's Law" of partial gas pressures. Ian Hodkinson continues his eclectic rambles in local history with two new papers. One concerns yet another naturalist but the other deals with the adventures of Cumbrians in the Klondike gold rush 10/1/2022 0 Comments LATE CHANGE to 2022 programmeOmicron has made us make a slight change to our 2022 programme. A poll of LLHG members as to whether we should go ahead with face to face meetings produced a slight majority in favour, but the Committee took the view that the wary members would forgo the meeting whereas the bullish would still join the Zoom session. We have therefore decided to have the AGM via Zoom and to keep that option open for the February meeting. Hopefully March 2022 will see us back to normal.
For the AGM we have a change of speaker. Instead of the advertised talk on WW1 Medicine in Cumbria by Richard Preston, who does not do Zoom, our own Prof. Ian Hodkinson will treat us to his researches into First Footers - The Earliest Naturalists to Walk The Lake District. 29/12/2021 0 Comments NEW YEAR GREETINGS and 2022 programmeThe LLHG Committee wishes all our members past and present all the very best for 2022.
Please see the MEETINGS page for details of our 2022 programme. starting with our AGM on 20 January. Please note that the programme was arranged before the Covid Omicron variant was ever heard of. We hope to be able to hold the meetings in the Levens Village Hall (formerly the Institute) without social distancing precautions, but as at 29 December this is uncertain. Arrangements might well be changed at short notice. What a way to have to operate.! Happy New Year. |
AuthorLevens Local History Group Archives
April 2024
Categories |
email: levenshistory22@gmail.com
|
Privacy PolicyContact & Membership
: Publications : Meetings : Membership Application : Privacy Policy : Constitution Projects : WW1 2018-2019 : WW1 Centenary Exhibition : The Book Launch : Sizergh Castle Dig 2013 : Levens 100 Years Ago : Sizergh Landscape Survey Find out about: : Levens People |
© copyright Levens Local History Group 2020 | Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy | Admin
Site designed and hosted by Treble3 |