The second of the Society’s traditional series of three autumn/winter talks was postponed last year due to adverse weather (snow, thaw, 55mm rain!) and power cuts. It has been rearranged for Saturday 29th March at 7.30pm in The Old School, Tatham Fells. Map | Directions The speaker will be Bill Deller on Farming in north-west […]
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August 2024 Field Trip Report
August 2024 Field Trip: Millhouses & Mealbank Eighteen members enjoyed a(nother!) sunny afternoon for our second summer walk, this time led by Millhouses resident and THS secretary Mike Winstanley. We started at Lane Head, briefly a public house in the nineteenth century, then headed down Millhouses main street to the site of the old mill. […]
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June 2024 Field Trip Report
June 2024: Field trip from Greenhall A dozen members were treated to a sunny and fascinating afternoon in the company of THS stalwart and lifelong Greenhall resident John Wilson. His farmhouse home is a listed building with many intriguing and unusual features, including a 1673 date stone. John described how this farm, like others in […]
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2023 Winter Talks programme
Tatham History Society’s traditional programme of three Saturday evening talks will take place on 11th November, 25th November and 9th December. For details click here
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Aerial photography from Historic England
Historic England has an on-line archive of aerial photos which can be accessed through a map interface; you zoom into your area of interest and icons show what’s available. Some of the photos are historic (purple diamonds). Others (red circles) are more recent but include features of historic interest, though it’s left to the viewer […]
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Summer Field Trip Report
Twenty members assembled at Tatham Fells Old School for a very breezy afternoon exploration on foot of local sites of historical interest, arranged and led by John Wilson, with the kind agreement of landowners. We visited a nearby circular depression, thought to be the site of a bloomery, a type of primitive iron-smelting pit. We […]
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Summer Walk from the Old School
We meet at 2.00pm at the Old School Lowgill, look at the bloomery, trace the mill race up to Foss Bank and then on to the top end of Aikengill Road/Whitepits Lane. To Moorlands and back to Whitepits Lane before dropping down from Barley Bank to the Old School where there will be light refreshments. […]
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What did we wear before Wellies?
In summer 2022, Esther Nimmo of Lower Lythe, with support from the Forest of Bowland AONB, organised a community walk to her home, along public footpaths once trodden regularly by school children and parishioners on their way to and from school, church and chapel. What did they wear on their feet in the days before […]
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Unique Embroidery at St. James Church
Every new investigation into Tatham’s history seems to lead to the discovery of unsuspected links to histories elsewhere, and Mike Winstanley’s latest web article reveals yet another, between St. James the Less church and two nineteenth-century cultural phenomena: the Arts and Crafts movement, and the pre-Raphaelite school of artists. The link is a “dossal” commissioned […]
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2022 Winter Talks programme
Tatham History Society’s traditional programme of three Saturday evening talks will take place on 12th November, 26th November and 10th December. For details click here
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