Ewecross Historical Society Events

Summer outings

If you would like a lift from Bentham or to car share, meet at Lairgill Car park on each occasion
Contact number: 015242 61382 (Sara Mason)

Saturday
24 July

Crack the code: a Palaeography class with Margaret Owen (Senior Archivist).

Come and find out how to read 16th century (and later) documents. Also useful for family and local historians. We shall use sources relating to the plague in Kendal in 1598.

2.00 p.m. at Cumbria
Record Office, Kendal

Access to the Record Office will be through the door to County Offices in the rear car park. (County Offices is the large building at the bottom of the Windermere Road). Address: County Offices, Stricklandgate, Kendal, LA9 4RQ.

Winter programme

Meetings are held in the Town Hall, High Bentham at 7.30 p.m.

Visitors are welcome at £2 each evening.

Monday 27 Sept	Sir Martin Holdgate	Appleby
Monday 25 Oct	Peter Higginbotham	Workhouses
Monday 29 Nov	John Dickinson	Misericords
Monday 31 Jan 2010	Tom Clare	Cumbrian Stone Circles
Monday 28 Feb	Richard Whinwray	Tot Lord: one of the Yorkshire Dales’ greatest characters
Monday 28 March	Ivan Day	Cumbrian Food
April (date to be arranged)		AGM & Dinner

Other Events

Bookfairs in the locality (all 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

Saturday 12 June	Gargrave Village Hall
Saturday 19 June	Arkholme Village Hall
Sunday 25 July	Clapham Village Hall
Saturday 14 August	Settle
Sunday 12 September	Ingleton Community Centre
Saturday 2 October	Gargrave Village Hall
Saturday 9 October	Hornby Village Hall