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.
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.
