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'
The 2023 - 2024 season meetings are held on a Monday evening from September to April, apart from December, when the meeting is held on the second Monday of the month.
13th November: Anthony - 'Marple in the 17th century'
In November Anthony Burton will revisit the Society. Last time Anthony enlightened on Marple as a Holiday Resort, this time he will dig further back into Marple’s history, to the 17th century. A century that saw a period of huge political and social upheaval, terror and bloodshed in England, with a Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the birth of a republic, overthrown by Charles II restoration. We know that John Bradshaw is most notable for his role as President of the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I. You will just have to come along to see if John Bradshaw can be eclipsed by other happenings in 17th century Marple.
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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