The Levens Local History Group - Meetings in 2024

2024 Speaker Programme​ 

Hello Everyone - The LLHG Autumn 2024 season starts on Thursday 19 September at 19.30 in Levens Village Hall. The talk will be based on a partial collection of slides taken in the 1930s of a journey down the river Kent to the sea by an Arnside based amateur photographer named Bill Wane, and given to LLHG by Mr. Michael Moser,  which will be supplemented by information about the Moser family's Levens connections.

2024 Programme

January 18:   AGM – Ian Hodkinson - The Life of Samuel Holker Haslam (1797-1856) of Heversham
February 15:   Judith Shingler and Alison Peake (Ambleside Oral History) - Emergency - Life before 999
March 21:   Ian Gee, (Chair of the Waterbird Trust) - Waterbird
April 18:   Dr. Suzanne Tiplady - A Mansion Fit for Demolition (Grisedale Hall)
May 16:   Paul Lewis (CEO of Lewis Conservation) - Gaythorne Hall​
June 20:   At Backbarrow Ironworks at 18.00, where the Chair of the site's Trustees, Richard Sanderson will give us a guided tour.
September 19:   From Kentmere to the sea, the 1930's slides of Bill Wane
October 17:  Andy Lowe (former LDNP Buildings Conservation Officer) - A Landscape of Industry
November 21:   Dr. Jean Turnbull - Rural Life in South Lakeland in the early 20th century