| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Convenor: | |
| Group email: | History group |
| When: | Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm 3rd Monday each month. |
| Venue: | History Room at Littleborough Station |
| Cost: | £2 |
We now have joint convenors in Howard Gott and Betty Hurst for this group who will work up a programme of meetings.
The History Group usually meet at 2.00 pm on every third Monday in the month at Littleborough History and Archaeological Society Rooms, Platform 2, Littleborough Railway Station, Littleborough, OL15 8AF
Access to Platform 2 is by steps or a ramp. The Rooms are wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet.
New members are very welcome.
WHAT WE DO
Ideas for talks, discussions, visits and research come from the group so we have a wonderful variety of topics and areas of interest.
Past activities and future plans include:
Greater Manchester U3A Project, COTTONOPOLIS and Littleborough Mills
Visits to museums and places of historical interest.
Group members presenting interesting and thought provoking objects and ideas at meetings to generate discussion.
Research into some Littleborough Shops.
FUTURE MEETINGS
Our next meeting is on Monday 17th September 2024.
Previous meetings
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History Group August 2024
Iain Bowden was our speaker at our August meeting showing us photos and illustrating past history of Rochdale, mainly the Town Centre, Drake street and Yorkshire street. You might remember Haworths shop on South Parade , or Butterworth’s jewellers or Halfpenny’s near Fleece street, Iveson’s (trading for more than 170 years before its demolition in […]
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History Group March 2024
Our March meeting at the History room heard an entertaining illustrated talk from Iain Bowden, on the history of Hollingworth Lake. We were introduced to the early pubs and pleasure grounds run by local businessmen, and how the lake was built to feed water to the Rochdale Canal at Summit. The Beach Hotel occupied a […]
Forthcoming events
21st October 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Meeting
Venue: History Room at Littleborough Station
Cost: £2