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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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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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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2019 AGM, winter talk no. 3, and out-barns art exhibition
Click here for a report on the year’s final society gathering: Annual General Meeting; a talk on land ownership, occupancy and values in the 19th century; and an exhibition of Peter Osborne’s watercolours of local out-barns.
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High summer in High Tatham – field-trip report & photos
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