Hartlepool & District

ARCHAEOLOGY/HISTORY

ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY

Programme for 2023 - 2024

All lectures take place at The People Centre Raby Road 10.30 for 11.00 a.m. start, Field Trips details, will be notified nearer the date

- 2024 -

January, 11th January, 2024. We started the New Year with another talk from Richard & Jan Crouch entitled is 'QUEEN VICTORIA'S PRINCE CONSORT' - a Man with a Mission (The story of Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). As with their mid-summer presentation, this again was an absorbing event, with the addition of a table top display for everyone to explore the character of the Prince Consort.

February 8th. 2024. "WAR KIDS - Stories of the North East - - Caroline Brannigan, Yorkshire based memoir writer spoke on Childhood and War on a
local theme with an enjoyable Q & A theme throughout.

March,14th.2024. A day in Newcastle with Keiran-Ann. a short walk on the subject of Father & Son, George and Robert Stephenson, was a good day away despite the rain, we enjoyed an illuminating walk around the Central Station area taking the history of the Stephenson's and visiting the Mining Museum and the area behind the Station which includes the Stephenson's original works (now called the Boiler Shop)

April, 11th. TRAMS, TROLLEY BUSES and TRAINS - Public Transport in Tyne & Wear" - Ian Jameson of Sunderland U3A gives an illustrated talk on public transport.

May 9th An away day

June 13th PRINCE PHILIP OF GREECE - A table top talk with JAN and RICHARD CROUCH

July 11th WATER,WIND AND WHEAT, a look at some north-eastern mills
A general talk about a few water- and windmills. Emphatically not a talk for mills specialists, just a basic explanation of pre-modern milling and a look at some examples in Northumberland, Co Durham and Tyne & Wear.

August -.

September 12th FAST & LOOSE MOUNTBATTENS A table top talk with JAN and RICHARD CROUCH

October, 10th An away day

November, 14th - A talk by ?

December, 12TH Olly Burtpn marking the Centenary of the birth of Walt Disney with his appreciation of Disney's animation techniques.

Watch this space for further announcements.

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ARCHAEOLOGY/HISTORY ART APPRECIATION BOARD GAMES BOWLS
BRIDGE CHESS COFFEE AND CHAT CREATIVE WRITING
FAMILY HISTORY FILM GROUP Fun With Fabrics GARDENS & GARDENING
LUNCHEON GROUP Music NATURAL HISTORY PHOTOGRAPHY for FUN
QUIZ READING GROUP 1 T'ai Chi Qigong Shibashi Training
TUESDAY BOOK CLUB VIEW AT THE VUE WALKING
More Group Pages
ARCHAEOLOGY/HISTORY ART APPRECIATION
BOARD GAMES BOWLS
BRIDGE CHESS
COFFEE AND CHAT CREATIVE WRITING
FAMILY HISTORY FILM GROUP
Fun With Fabrics GARDENS & GARDENING
LUNCHEON GROUP Music
NATURAL HISTORY PHOTOGRAPHY for FUN
QUIZ READING GROUP 1
T'ai Chi Qigong Shibashi Training
TUESDAY BOOK CLUB VIEW AT THE VUE
WALKING