Category Archives: Website news

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 […]

The Tatham Family of Tatham, a genealogical book written in 1857 by Richard E Tatham, is the subject of an article first posted on our website in 2009. Tatham History Society has recently received an original copy of the book, and is very grateful for the donation to Kate Bath of Essex, who has family […]

A brief article about the route of the 1675 Ogilby strip-map of the route from York to Lancaster, and its depiction of the section between Wennington and Hornby, via the Bridge Inn, Tatham bridge, and St. James-the-Less church, with a link to a TV program which explores the Tatham to Hornby part of the route […]

Mike Winstanley has contributed a fascinating website article about a notable family of cabinet makers that started out in Tatham and went on to craft furniture for Queen Victoria, and for other wealthy families in the 18th and 19th century. Click here to read the article

One of the first Tatham History Society talks, given by member Mike Kelly in 2008, was appropriately concerned with the origins of the local landscape that seems to us timeless and little-changing. Mike’s carefully researched lecture explored the huge forces that have acted over millions of years to forge a backcloth to the significant, but […]

Founder member Mike Kelly, despite now living in the Western Highlands of Scotland, has been making the most of his Covid lockdowns by contributing a third website article on the long history of our local collieries. Some other longstanding members will remember the 2011 field trip led by Mike which explored the mining remains on […]

Stephen Stackhouse, a friend of Tatham History Society, discovered a large book of maps that had formerly belonged to his grandfather, William Hodgson, who had spent part of his life living in Wennington and working as a bailiff on the River Wenning. Stephen kindly donated the maps to THS, who set about discovering why they […]

Colin Miller has contributed a third and final article about his early life at Mill Farm, describing his memories of the flora and fauna. Click here to view the web page.

Local artist Peter Osborne spent many hours during 2019 tramping the local footpaths to reach thirty of these attractive and characteristic landscape features, and to record them in his sketch book in watercolour. The work was first exhibited, as prints, in autumn 2019 at the Gallery on the Green, the world’s smallest art gallery, in […]