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Speaker |
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11 January 1991 |
Mrs Hitchin |
Answering questions about her work and how she can help family historians |
Superintendent Registrar Newcastle |
8 March 1991 |
Randle Knight |
Heraldry & Family History |
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10 May 1991 |
Rose Wheat |
Curious Clergy of North Staffs |
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12 July 1991 |
Eva Beech |
Sources for Family History in North Staffs |
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13 September 1991 |
Visit |
A visit to Crewe Hall |
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8 November 1991 |
Richard Hughes |
Life of a Country Yeoman |
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10 January 1992 |
Miss L Warham |
Audley Past and Present |
Illustrations both from her father's collection and her own collection |
13 March 1992 |
David Dyble |
Apedale |
He ranged from Elizabethan times to the present day |
8 May 1992 |
Visit |
Broughton Hall |
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10 July 1992 |
Dr Philip Morgan |
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Information including the fact that before 950 A.D. Audley was part of the parish of Barthomley. |
11 September 1992 |
Rose Wheat |
The Range of European Immigrants |
This talk included immigrants from the Elers, brothers at Bradwell to the Minton artists of the late 18th century |
13 November 1992 |
Robert Speake |
Barthomley |
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8 January 1993 |
David Dyble |
History of Chesterton |
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12 March 1993 |
Edgar Tooth |
Audley Surnames |
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14 May 1993 |
David Dyble |
Talk: "A walk - through the Apedale Valley" |
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9 July 1993 |
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internal talk |
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10 September 1993 |
Thelma Lancaster |
Hulton Abbey and the Audley Connection |
It's links to the Audley Family |
12 November 1993 |
Brian Stokes |
Audley in the Staffordshire Advertiser |
Local and general facts including Blondini performing over Madeley Pool. |
14 January 1994 |
David Dyble |
Norman Conquest Audley |
Audley before, during and after the Norman Conquest |
11 March 1994 |
Ed Billington |
Mining communities in North Staffs |
the communities covered were Silverdale. Fenton and Goldenhill. |
13 May 1994 |
David Dyble |
Talk: "More walk through the Apedale Valley" |
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8 July 1994 |
Dudley Fowkes |
Staffs Record Office |
Family History and Audley |
9 September 1994 |
Philip Leese |
Woes and Pleasures of a Local Historian |
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11 November 1994 |
Sandra Burgess |
The Sneyds of Keele Hall |
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13 January 1995 |
David Dyble |
Mining accidents in the Audley Coalfield 1801 -1900 |
Diglake Disaster |
3 March 1995 |
Michael Eardley |
The Audley Family |
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5 May 1995 |
George Riley |
Walk - around Betley |
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7 July 1995 |
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1 September 1995 |
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3 November 1995 |
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5 January 1996 |
John Taylor
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The Ancient Order of Forresters in Audley |
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1 March 1996 |
David Dyble
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Gresley and Son: Developers of Apedale
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3 May 1996 |
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Guided Walk
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No details
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5 July 1996 |
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6 September 1996 |
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1 November 1996 |
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3 January 1997 |
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7 March 1997 |
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2 May 1997 |
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4 July 1997 |
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5 September 1997 |
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7 November 1997 |
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2 January 1998 |
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6 March 1998 |
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1 May 1998 |
Bruce Braithwaite |
The English Countryside |
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3 July 1998 |
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4 September 1998 |
David Dyble |
The Audley Branch Railway |
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6 November 1998 |
Stephen Booth |
The Golden Age of Coaching |
passenger travel and postal services by road in our area between 1730 and the dominance of the railways |
8 January 1999 |
Bill Klemperer |
Staffordshire Cistercian Abbeys |
From the City Museum, including excavations in which he was involved. |
5 March 1999 |
Major E Green |
The Staffordshire Regiment |
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7 May 1999 |
Ian Bailey |
Three Audley Murders |
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2 July 1999 |
TBA |
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3 September 1999 |
Thea Randall |
Kill or Cure? |
Medical remedies of the 16th & 17th century |
5 November 1999 |
David Dyble |
Audley in Historical Maps |
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7 January 2000 |
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3 March 2000 |
David Barker |
Historic Buildings of the Potteries |
City Museum and Time Team |
5 May 2000 |
Andrew Dobraszczyc |
Silverdale in the 19th century |
How Silverdale has grown from a small village to a largish industrial community |
16 May 2000 |
Robert Mayer |
Walk - Gresley Canal |
is this correct date? |
7 July 2000 |
Ian Bailey |
an Out of the Way Place? |
based on reported incidents in the Staffordshire Advertiser. |
1 September 2000 |
Joan Baggaley |
The Beginning of Medical Career in North Staffordshire |
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3 November 2000 |
Philip Morgan |
Career of John Audley; Poet and Priest |
His Life and escapades |
5 January 2001 |
Philip Leese |
Village of Talke |
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2 March 2001 |
James Sutton |
The Association for the Prosecution Of Felons |
The apprehension and control of felons mainly by the community |
4 May 2001 |
Philip Leese |
North Staffordshire Canals |
dealing with the historical origins with illustrations. |
6 July 2001 |
Malcolm Thurston |
The Roman Road to Middlewich. Why Middlewich? |
The road led to Chesterton area as well as to Nantwich and Wrenbury. |
7 September 2001 |
Gordqn Sandland |
Discover History by Metal Detector |
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2 November 2001 |
Andrew Dobraszczyc |
Newcastle -Capital of the Potteries |
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4 January 2002 |
Malcolm Henson |
Social History of Football in the Potteries 1870-1890 |
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1 March 2002 |
Sandra Burgess |
Servants of Keele Hall 1780-1800 |
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3 May 2002 |
Gerald D'Arcy |
Tribute to Mining in Silverdale |
why the village was in existence. |
5 July 2002 |
Ruth Grocott |
In Search Of Uncle Harry |
A tribute to a guardsman in the Second world war |
6 September 2002 |
Gordqn Sandland |
Further Historical Discovery with a metal detector |
He recounted many of the discoveries he had made |
1 November 2002 |
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3 January 2003 |
Andrew Dobraszczyc |
The Newcastle Hatting Industry - Boom or Bust |
The industry dominated the town foe 150 years |
7 March 2003 |
John Levitt |
A Skeleton History of the English Language |
He showed how language is forever changing, also talking about dialects. |
2 May 2003 |
Katy Banks |
The Archaeology of Enoch Wood, Father of the Pottteries |
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4 July 2003 |
Dan Gardener |
The Archaeology of the Roman site at Holditch |
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5 September 2003 |
Gordqn Sandland |
Further Historical Discovery with a metal detector |
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7 November 2003 |
Ian Bailey |
First World War |
Can we ever understand it? |
2 January 2004 |
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5 March 2004 |
Philip Morgan |
Architecture in Audley |
the fascinating history of some of our buildings |
7 May 2004 |
John Potter |
Arnold Bennett Life and Works |
Chairman of the A B Society |
2 July 2004 |
Philip Morgan |
Adventures in tracing the Morgan family tree |
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3 September 2004 |
Denis Small |
HMS Kelly in World War II |
William Henry Small served on this destroyer under the command of Louis Mountbatten. |
5 November 2004 |
Rosemary Dear |
The 1910 Land Tax Survey ref Holmes Chapel |
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7 January 2005 |
Alan Treherne |
Clockmakers of Newcastle |
Gabriel Smith, born in Audley, worked in Barthomley before moving to Nantwich. Betley Church clock made by him. |
4 March 2005 |
Brian Nixon |
History of Silverdale |
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6 May 2005 |
Reg Goulding |
Mining 1940-1986 |
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1 July 2005 |
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2 September 2005 |
Harold Forster |
Between The Tracks |
He reminisced about his 48 years on the railways |
4 November 2005 |
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6 January 2006 |
Sandra Burgess |
Manor Court Rolls |
The talk included the manors of Keele and Tunstall and became important after the Norman conquest |
3 March 2006 |
Philip Leese |
Linley Hall and Mow Cop |
The speaker failed to turn up so an impromptu talk given |
5 May 2006 |
Philip Leese |
A History of Lawton Hall with illustrations |
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7 July 2006 |
Sandra Burgess |
Bastardy-The Workhouse |
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1 September 2006 |
Miranda Goodby |
19th century Flatback Figures, from Royalty to Murders and everyone in between |
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3 November 2006 |
Sandra Burgess |
Civil Registration |
Births, Marriages and Deaths |
5 January 2007 |
Andrew Dobraszczyc |
A 17th Century Mystery, Josiah Stringer of Talke and the Wedgwood family in Burslem |
His daughter married Thomas Wedgwood and whose youngest son was Josiah Wedgwood |
2 March 2007 |
Philip Leese |
A History of Linley Hall |
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4 May 2007 |
Andrew Dobraszczyc |
A Revolutionary Affair: the strugglefor the control of Newcastle constituency 1789-1815 |
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6 July 2007 |
Andrew Dobraszczyc |
TBA |
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7 September 2007 |
Miranda Goodby |
What about the worker? |
This lecture brings to life the people behind the pots in the 19th century, illustrated with contemporary engravings and ceramics. |
2 November 2007 |
Miranda Goodby |
Our home in the west. |
Emigrant potters in America in the 1840's and what became of them following hard times in the Staffordshire potteries during the hungry 40's. |
17 November 2007 |
Cedric Barber |
Abolition of Slavery and tracing his slave ancestry |
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4 January 2008 |
JJ Heath Caldwell |
James Caldwell Protégé of Josiah Wedgwood |
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7 March 2008 |
Roger Pask |
From the Flying Dutchman to Petticoat Lane |
A light hearted tale of Roger tracing his Dutch/Jewish History |
2 May 2008 |
Philip Leese |
Masters and Men |
Coal industry in the 19th century |
4 July 2008 |
Brian Nixon |
Newcastle Under Lyme - The Road to Re-inventionA film from Medieval times to present |
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5 September 2008 |
Fred Hughes |
The Private Life of Arnold Bennett |
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7 November 2008 |
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9 January 2009 |
Dr. Christopher Harrison |
The Pleasures and Pitfalls of a Local Historian. |
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6 March 2009 |
John Lumsden |
Floods at Diglake 1895, Gas at Sherrif 1870 and Joseph Cook |
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1 May 2009 |
Mrs Mavis Smith |
Diaries of a Betley Lady (1835-36) |
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3 July 2009 |
Dr Pamela Sambrook |
A History of Staffordshire Oatcakes |
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4 September 2009 |
Dr Philip Morgan |
John Emberton- Audley and the International Style of Architecture |
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6 November 2009 |
Ian Bailey |
10 Questions about Audley Churchyard |
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1 January 2010 |
No Talk |
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5 March 2010 |
Janet Bradshaw |
Nine Lives (or 750 years in a Dirty Shift) |
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7 May 2010 |
Doug Pickford |
Mystery, History and Folklore |
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2 July 2010 |
David Bell |
Memories of Coalfields of Staffordshire |
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3 September 2010 |
Ian Bailey |
Audley's Poor 1838 |
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5 November 2010 |
Duncan Hindmarsh |
Chesterton in the Second World War |
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7 January 2011 |
Dr Nigel Tringham |
The Victoria Society with Reference to Audley |
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4 March 2011 |
Patsie Jarman |
The Story of the Circus |
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6 May 2011 |
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1 July 2011 |
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2 September 2011 |
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4 November 2011 |
Stephen Dean |
The Staffordshire Hoard |
Stephen was the principal digger |
6 January 2012 |
Kate Dobson |
John Gerrard the Nantwich Herbalist |
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2 March 2012 |
Levision Wood |
The Battle for Blore Heath |
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4 May 2012 |
Robert Mayer |
Walk - along Apedale Road, Wood Lane |
This talk included many Thomas Warham photos |
6 July 2012 |
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7 September 2012 |
Peter Thompson |
A Wee Story |
A piece of true family history |
2 November 2012 |
Barbara Andrew |
Grandma was a suffragette |
The story of how British women achieved electoral equality |
4 January 2013 |
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1 March 2013 |
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3 May 2013 |
Stephen Booth |
Staffs Soldiers on the Western Front |
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5 July 2013 |
David Wilkinson |
The Discovery of Stafford Castle |
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6 September 2013 |
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1 November 2013 |
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3 January 2014 |
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7 March 2014 |
Neil Collingwood |
Newcastle Through Time |
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3 May 2014 |
Robert Mayer |
Walk - Apedale |
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6 June 2014 |
Mark Smith |
North Staffordshire Railway |
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4 July 2014 |
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5 September 2014 |
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7 November 2014 |
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5 December 2014 |
Dr Roger Joy |
The Fourteenth Century Lord Audley family, their Ancestors and Descendents |
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6 February 2015 |
Les Mason |
The North Staffs Rich Mining History. Mines. |
The extent of the coalfields, and talked about the various kinds of |
3 April 2015 |
Levision Wood |
Dear Duchess' The life and loves of Millicent Fanny St. Clair-Erskine, the Duchess of Sutherland |
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5 June 2015 |
Steve Booth |
Lidice 1942 its destruction and part played by Staffordshire in its rebirth |
The small Czech mining town that was destroyed by the Nazi's |
7 August 2015 |
Philip Morgan: |
Heighley Castle. |
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2 October 2015 |
Jon Honeysett |
Private Charles Honeysett - First World War Experiences |
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4 December 2015 |
JJ Heath Caldwell |
Anne Marsh Caldwell of Linley Hall |
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5 February 2016 |
Dr Chris Harrison |
The Medieval Mindset |
The period was 1300-1500 looking at the lower classes in Society |
1 April 2016 |
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3 June 2016 |
Robert Mayer |
History of Wood Lane |
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5 August 2016 |
Andrew Dobraszczyc |
The gardens of Apedale Hall |
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7 October 2016 |
Julie Bagnall |
Beyond the Prescription book |
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2 December 2016 |
Robert Mayer |
Three chapels and no pub |
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3rd February 2017 |
Andrew Dobraszczyc |
A Social History of Apedale Gardens |
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7th April 2017 |
Paul Anderton |
Local responses to Napoleon’s plans 1803-14: opening a new source for family and local historians. |
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2nd June 2017 |
Andy Fear |
Blood and Sand:Gladiators in the Roman Empire |
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4th August 2017 |
Philip R. Leese |
Miners Lives; Social Life of Mining Villages in the 19th & 20th Centuries |
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6th October 2017 |
Tim Coltman |
The Story of Two Crosses |
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1st December 2017 |
Philip Astley |
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2nd February 2018 |
Dr Robin Stud |
Potters and the Abolition of the Slave Trade |
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6th April 2018 |
Julie Bagnall |
What to Do with 323 Post Cards ? |
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1st June 2018 |
Mervyn Edwards |
Potteries Parks |
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3rd August 2018 |
J Eardley |
Letter from Poitou - The Remarkable Story of a Medieval Audley Woman |
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5th October 2018 |
Steve Booth |
The Lost Treasure of Stone - the Mystery of the Unique Privy Seal |
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7th December 2018 |
Dr Chris Harrison |
A Baronial Household in The Age of Elizabeth |
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1st February 2019 |
Philip Leese |
"Local People are History or Local Places in History ? Which Side are You On ?"
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5th April 2019 |
Mervyn Edwards |
The North Staffordshire Miner
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7th June 2019 |
Peter Lead |
Early 18th CenturyAudley Entrepreneurs and The Spread of The Newcomen Steam Engine |
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2nd August 2019 |
Tony Bostock |
Place Names and Field Names: A source for local history.
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www.tonybostock.com
(Names of towns and villages, and those of fields, hold clues to interpreting the past. In this talk the meanings of local names will be discussed and how they can assist in the understanding the local history of an area) |
4th October 2019 |
Andrew Hunt - (Silverdale Country Park Ranger) |
Abandoned Colliery to Wildlife Haven
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www.silverdalecountrypark.org.uk
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29th November 2019
note change of date |
Graham Dodd |
A Crewe Factory Girl – the life of Ada Nield Chew
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The story of Ada Nield who came to prominence locally when she fought for improved conditions for those working in local clothing factories at the turn of the nineteenth century. She campaigned on behalf of the Labour movement, trades unions and for women’s suffrage before running her own business |
7thFebruary 2020 |
Steve Booth |
The Golden Age of Stagecoaching
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3rd April 2020
CANCELLED |
Barbara Andrew |
Fanny Deakin: The Silverdale campaigner.
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Feminist, Communist, councillor and Alderman who was a the champion of the local working class for 50 years
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5th June 2020
CANCELLED |
Jim Worgan and Lloyd Boardman |
Coal Mining in North Staffordshire at the time of the Diglake Disaster 1895
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7th August 2020
CANCELLED |
Mervyn Edwards |
Cranks, Characters and Queer Fish of North Staffordshire
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2nd October 2020
CANCELLED |
Tony Bostock |
My Genealogical Journey.
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An account of Tony’s researches into the Bostock name conducted over many decades. The talk covers the methods used along with the problems encountered. This is an interesting and amusing talk from which family historians might gather some ideas for themselves.
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4th February 2022 |
Mervyn Edwards |
Cranks, Characters and Queer Fish of North Staffordshire
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1st April 2022 |
Stuart Haywood (of the Welsh Society of North Staffordshire)
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The Story of a Moustache Cup
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The speaker, Stuart Haywood, has been promoting his recent book (The Welsh in North Staffordshire) on various English & Welsh facebook pages. What he didn’t expect was for a lady in Australia to contact him regarding an ancestor that had migrated from Anglesey to Hanley, Elias Hughes. She is a direct descendent of a cousin of Elias who was also from Anglesey. She carried out an Object Biography as part of a genealogy course and the object chosen was a moustache cup which links the two cousins. This presentation compares the lives of the two cousins and is based on the joint research by Stuart and his Australian contact. |
27th May 2022 |
Haydn Thomas
Crewe and Nantwich Metal Detecting Society |
"Raising Money for Good Causes in the Community - An Introduction to Crewe & Nantwich Metal Detecting Society"
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| 5th August 2022 |
Michael Eardley |
"Eve and the Audleys" |
Eve and the Audleys
Eve de Clavering was married into the wealthy and influential Audley barony in 1307.
Married and widowed three times she lived through most of the turbulent 14th century.
Baronial rebellion, Bannockburn, the start of the Hundred Years War and the Black Death all came to her door.
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7th October 2022 |
Philip Morgan
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"A Saint and a Sinner from Medieval Audley".
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Philip Morgan lives in Audley, and for over 35 years taught medieval history and local history at Keele University’
Two lives compared – one the subject of a Wordsworth sonnet the other haunted by his role in a murder.
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| 25th November 2022 |
Philip Leese |
"Miners Lives in the 19th and 20th centuries". |
A look at the working lives of miners in the villages of Kidsgrove and Silverdale using two contemporary accounts.
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| 3rd February 2023 |
Mervyn Edwards |
‘Oatcakes – the food of the Gods’ |
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www.merver.co.uk
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| 14th April 2023 |
Tony Bostock |
‘The Colour of Heraldry’ |
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| 2nd June 2023 |
JJ Heath-Caldwell |
‘The Caldwell Family Library at Linley Wood (and a big book project!)’ |
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| 4th August 2023 |
Marion Armstrong
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Chasing Paper Skeletons
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A light hearted talk about the working life of a Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths and building family trees from unexpected sources without spending lots of money!
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| 6th October 2023 |
Philip Leese |
Writing Local History |
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| 24th November 2023 |
Graham Dodd |
A Glimpse of Life on the Shropshire Union Canal |
Graham aims to capture the essence of life on the canal including its day-to-day operation, the challenges facing the boatmen and their families, the role of the horses and the variety of cargoes.
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| 2 February 2024 |
Dr Keith Lawrence
(Nantwich Museum) |
The Battle of Nantwich 1644
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