Meetings 2023 - 2024
"From the Ice Age to the Present Day". A talk that swept from Bede to the Beatles. An evening’s journey through the dramatic events that have shaped the north, from invasions and battles to the industrial revolution. On the way detours to witchcraft, slavery, northern women, poets and even sheep, a resounding start of the new season for MHLS.
By the end of the evenings enrolment, the number of members who had paid online and on the evening, numbered 135.
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Bob Cannell and Les Green
“How to increase productivity.” This is one of the pressing economic questions of our current age but it was also a pressing question in 1900 when the Shropshire Union Canal and Railway Company (SUC&R) commissioned a tug boat from the Tranmere Bay Development Co. It was delivered three years later in 1903 and it was designed to tow up to ten barges from Ellesmere Port to Liverpool. We were expecting Sheila Leonard to tell us about the history of this boat and the story of its restoration but in the event Bob Cannell and Les Green came. We thought at first it was confirmation of the old adage that it takes two men to do the work of one woman but it turned out that Bob and Les had always intended to come to Marple. Indeed they had practiced giving this talk on almost two hundred occasions before they felt confident enough to make a presentation to Marple Local History Society.
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Read more: October 2023: 'Restoration of the Danny Steam Boat'
Anthony Burton
In November’s talk Anthony Burton tried to show us that there is more to Mellor’s history than Samuel Oldknow and more to Marple than John Bradshaw. Admittedly John Bradshaw was given a mention but Anthony was much more interested in Henry, John’s brother, because he stayed in Marple and left a diary which tells us a lot about the everyday life in the Marple of the mid seventeenth century. He then went on to show the links that we still have with that period - surnames of people living then whose descendants are still in the area and gravestones which tell a similar tale. However, the most tangible links are the houses, both large and small, that survive from that era. Anthony showed pictures of many of these and briefly explained how they fitted into the society of that time.
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The 2023 - 2024 season meetings are held on a Monday evening from September to April.
11th December:
Claire Moores - 'Chimney Stacks and Climbing Boys: the art and mystery of Chimney Sweeping'
15th January:
Neil Mullineux - 'Longhurst Lane- a virtual stroll'
19th February:
Ted Doan - 'The Plaza Theatre '
18th March:
Geoffrey Scargill - ‘Elgar: The Real Enigma’
15th April:
AGM & Frank Pleszak - 'Ludworth Colliery'
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