Our mission:
is to encourage and promote interest in archaeology and history, particularly of the County Palatine of Lancashire. There is a yearly programme of 5 evening talks, plus a members' evening, and visits to sites of interest.
Mrs Mavis Shannon
telephone: Preston (01772) 709187
or email
The current Membership of the Committee is shown on this page.
The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting are shown on this page.
The Fulwood United Reformed Church
shown on this map.
Meetings begin at 7.45pm
Information about accessing the venue for our meetings by public transport is shown on the map page.
The Programme for the current year - 2010 - 2011 - is shown here.
Next year's 2011 - 2012 Programme is in course of preparation.
The Programmes for previous years are available on the Archive Page
Membership of the Society is open to all. Annual Membership runs from 1st February to 31st January. Annual membership fees are:
Other fees (such as charges for coach travel, site entry on visits, tickets for the Annual Dinner etc) will be posted here, as necessary.
Please note: if you are joining the Society for the first time, or if your personal details have changed, please provide your contact information on this form
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Society news and announcements
The Annual Dinner (currently shown as 21st January 2011) will now take place on 20th May 2011.
The Annual General Meeting (currently shown as 18th February 2011) will now be held on 21st January 2011.
On the 18th February 2011 there will now be a standard evening talk (the speaker and topic are yet to be confirmed).
The Committee hopes that these changes have the approval of members, and that they will achieve the desired result.
The "Victoria County History of Cumbria" Project
Bloomsbury Summer Schools
in Egypt, NOVEMBER 10 - 17.
The relevant information is on this Advertisement (you will need the Adobe Reader to be able to view it). There is more information on the Bloomsbury Summer Schools website.
Please note also:
....The Lancashire Local History Network has a new sub-group - The Fylde History Network - which is intended to provide a liaison and co-ordination function in the activities of the area's local historians. Contact details are on the page.
....The Lancashire County Council, with additional external funding, is running a project on the history and culture of the Forest of Bowland AONB.
....Our Chairman, Gaynor Wood, a lecturer in archaeology at UCLAN, has been involved in some experimental archaeology in tile-firing at Norton Priory. Details of the work are here! The results will also be published here as and when the students do the write-up.
....The Bibliography of our President BJN Edwards is now on line here.
He approached the Society to ask if we could offer any help in doing a more professional physical examination of the site in the hope that an accurate floor plan could be determined. Our current chairman, Gaynor Wood, arranged for a team of her archaeology students at UCLAN to carry out a series of surveys at the site. This exercise was undertaken on 17th and 18th April 2010. An interim report can be read here.
Pictures of the UCLAN team working at the Workhouse site can be seen here
The four albums below are from our most recent visits. Clicking on an image takes you to the set of photographs ("thumbnail" size) for that visit. Clicking on each thumbnail enlarges the picture. Please note that initially the larger image may appear out of focus - after a few seconds it will clear.
Clicking on the tab "Webmaster's Gallery" at the top of any page takes you to the complete photograph archive.
The fort at Vindolanda
7th June 2009
Evening walk at Lytham, guided by Dr A Crosby
3rd July 2009
The ruins of Halton Castle
12th June 2010
Garstang Market Cross
July 2010
