Meetings 2024 - 2025
The society's monthly meetings are held on a Monday evening from September to April in Marple Methodist Church.
Doors open at 7:15pm ready for the meeting to commence at 7:45pm.
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Mark Llewellin
First broadcast on December 9th 1960, Coronation Street created by the 24 year old Tony Warren remains a nation’s favourite to this day.
Mark Llewellin, who gave a tour de force on the history of the Pantomime in It’s Behind You! December 2022, returned to take us back to the birth of this ground breaking show. A programme that in the 1960s and 1970s regularly attracted figures of between 18 and 21 million viewers.
Coronation Street was partly borne out of wish of Granada to produce more local drama, being contractually obliged to employ regional actors and production staff. Warren drew on memories of growing up in Swinton to Coronation Street, a working class community inhabited by “ordinary” people leading unspectacular lives.
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Joanna Williams
Manchester is famed for its support of radical political movements - the Co-operative movement, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Trades Union Congress. But perhaps the movement most closely associated with this city is the fight for women’s suffrage. In 2021 we heard from Andrew Simcock about Emmeline Pankhurst but at our October meeting Joanna Williams introduced us to a lesser known figure who played a very important role in the growth of the suffrage movement - Lydia Becker.
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11th November:
‘Made in Manchester’- Brian Groom.
9th December:
'The call what he made - Mobile Phones' - Nigel Linge.
13th January:
‘Pott Shrigley Abduction’ – Neil Mullineux.
17th February:
‘Railway Navvies’ - Kevin Harrison.
17th March:
'Deansgate - a history' – Keith Warrender.
14th April:
AGM followed by 'A Picture Tour of Marple in Days Gone By’ - Hilary Atkinson.
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