WELCOME TO RAVENSTONEDALE PARISH HISTORY GROUP
Talks
Programme
2025-2026
Wednesday 17th September 2025
2.30pm in Newbiggin-on-Lune Public Hall: Mary’s Memories – of growing up in Newbiggin-on-Lune in the early 1900s by Jackie Wedd
Wednesday 15th October 2025
7.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community & Heritage Centre: The Bank House 1690-1990 – A History of our Ravenstonedale House by Steve Fermer
Wednesday 19th November 2025
2.30pm in Newbiggin-on-Lune Public Hall: Weather Forecasting the Cumbrian Way by Jean Scott-Smith
Wednesday 10th December 2025
7.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community and Heritage Centre
Our usual Christmas get-together, on a bring-and-share basis. We hope to show some of the slides of local scenes which have recently been donated to the archive – using historical tech of course.
Wednesday 18th February 2026
2.30pm in Newbiggin-on-Lune Public Hall: Ravenstonedale Parish in the County Archives by Anthony Hughes, an archivist based at Kendal Archives – to include a brief introduction to the County Archive Service.
Wednesday 18th March 2026
7.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community and Heritage Centre: Lime Burning and Land Improvements in the Barony of Westmorland by David Johnson.
We play an important role in documenting the parish’s history – both as volunteer archivists preserving records and as volunteer historians interpreting stored documentation.