Presentations & Walks 2013
All held at Northowram Methodist Chapel, the Green, Northowram, unless specified as a different meeting place.
17th January
A Peep into Shibden Hall - An Illustrated talk by Tony Sharpe.
A presentation exploring some interesting insights of Shibden Hall, given by one of the leading experts who works in this facinating and major historical house in our region.
21st February
Diamonds in Halifax - An Illustrated talk by Brian Harkness.
More details to follow
21st March
Halifax & the Slave Trade - An Illustrated talk by David Glover.
More details to follow.
20th and 21st April
HISTORY WEEKEND - A special two day event
Lots of presentations and seminars on history topics. Also a walk an talk on Sunday. Centred around the Northowram Historical Society research into the new Northowram History Book Project. More to follow Held at Northowram Methodist Chapel, the Green, Northowram - 9-30am START.
16th May - NEXT EVENT
Evening History Walk
A circular walk & talk led by George Bowers
A walk and talk starting at Shibden Mill upper car park at 7.30pm (weather permitting). The theme is Industrial Shibden and will talke a relatively short route from Dam Head along the Dicken and towards Staup House, across the Red Beck and then up to Spa House continuing back to the Shibden Mill Inn. Mr George Bowers will lead the walk and it is expected to take approx one and a half hours. Good walking shoes required as this walk will be on footpaths though some fields. All aspects of industrial activity from 17th to early 20th century in this area will be discussed.
20th June
Evening History Walk
A circular walk & talk led by Philip Gibson
A walk and talk details to follow soon.
18th July
The 33rd at Waterloo
A presentation by John Spencer, Military Curator of Bankfield Museum
Details to follow soon
15th August
An Outline History of Shelf - An Illustrated talk by David Nortcliffe.
More details to follow
19th September
Two Epidemics - Smallpox in Brighouse & Scarlet Fever in Halifax.
An Illustrated talk by John Brooke.
More details to follow
17th October - AGM and Presentation - British War Registers - 1914-18 - some thoughts on local cases. An illustrated talk by Cyril Pearce.
More details to follow
21st November
A Postcard from Sunny Bunces - An illustrated talk by Chris Helme.
More details to follow
12th December
A MEMBERS & FRIENDS EVENING.
7.30pm start at Northowram Methodists Chapel, The Green, Northowram. £5 per person
A packed fun evening featuring
Raffle, Quiz, Also presentation etc. More details to follow.
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Seminars/Course
HISTORY WEEKEND PLANNED FOR 20th and 21st April 2013
A weekend of activites, displays and seminars plus a walk.
The society is currently planning this event and hopes there will be something for everyone on this weekend, young and old. There will be a Photoshop demonstration to help those who want to retouch old photos, plus ways of stiching together multiple images to make a file for a large map. Hopefully there will be some of the leading historians in the Halifax area devoting time to presenting different topics on history of Northowram. A display of archived material will be available to see which has built up over the years the society has now been active. The place will be confirmed soon and the agenda published too!
WINTER/SPRING HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP FOR 2013
Rediscovering the History of Northowram Township
Are running an 10 session course that started Wed 16th January 2013.
You are invited to join these evening sessions if you would like to be involved in the publication of a piece in the new History of Northowram book project.
This is a practical history course that will enable you to enjoy how to research of all aspects of Northowram old township history. Places are available and charged at £6 per session (11 weeks in total with a one week break for half term). Those interested in textiles and agriculture are especiallly welcome as we need to expand this area of research. Census work will also be taking place.
If you are interested in working up a piece as an individual or as a group partnership then please come along and join this friendly bunch who need more contributions to make this project a success.
HELD AT HEYWOOD UNITED REFORM CHURCH, HEYWOOD CLOSE, NORTHOWRAM, HX3 7DJ
7.00pm for 7.30pm start
For more information or to register an interest, please e mail: info@northowram.org
If you require more detailed information you can also contact the course organiser Alan Petford, Tel 01422 202758
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