Meetings are held on Wednesdays from September to June, usually alternating between Fremington Sunday School, DL11 6AR just outside Reeth in Swaledale and Harmby Village Hall, DL8 5PG near Leyburn in Wensleydale. Entry is free and visitors are warmly welcome at all meetings
Previous meetings...
23 October 2019 Anthony Atkinson – Ada Lovelace and her family
25 September 2019 Anna Greenwood – Oral History – Our Lives
26 June 2019 Sylvia Valentine - The story of the Dawson Orphans
22 May 2019 Carol Dougherty – Barnard Castle Market Place, the stories behind the shops
24 April 2019 Penelope Hemingway and David Hunt – The Women’s Land Army in Yorkshire
27 March 2019 Val Slater - The Walls clan of Coverdale – from The Foresters’ Arms to The Somme Val used a wide variety of sources to trace her family through good times and bad; from a background of peaceful village inn-keeping in the 19th century to the Great War and beyond.
27 February 2019 A discussion meeting “Meet the ancestors” Was your ancestor a butcher, baker or candlestick maker?
28 November 2018 People of the Parish A teaching session on what we can learn from parish registers
24 October 2018 Jennifer Deadman - Farm Buildings of the Heart of Teesdale. Jennifer, a historic building surveyor, spoke about several of the farmsteads which she recorded with a volunteer historic buildings survey group, training them not only to record the fabric of the buildings but also, through documentary research, to place them in their landscape setting and in their local historic context. 26 September 2018 David Turner - Quakers, radicals and mill owners Researching the Baynes family of Sedbergh, Middleham and Skipton.
25 July 2018 An afternoon visit to Rokeby Park near Barnard Castle
27 June 2018 Gill Parkes - And the bride wore…
23 May 2018 Peter Higginbotham - No Place Like Home
25 April 2018 Janet Ratcliffe and Sue Thorne - Cakes and Creativity, Life in a Rural Rectory.
28 March 2018 Anthony Wood - Sir Thomas Robinson, gentleman of Fashion
22 November 2017 Dr David Severs - Wensleydale Clockmakers and their clocks. David began to research historic clock making in the dales after discovering the craft in his own family tree and has recently been involved in an exhibition of more than 60 grandfather clocks, wall and table clocks, watches and barometers at Tennants Garden Rooms in Leyburn.
25th October 2017 Dr Graham Rogers - Getting through the Daily Grind. Family Life and Rural Economy in 19th Century Yorkshire
27 September 2017 David Scrimgeour - Early Asylum Life. Social historian David Scrimgeour looked at the lives of some of those who passed through the doors of - the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield during the first 50 years of its existence, telling their stories in their own words.