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    • Levens 100 Years Ago - Exhibition 2011
    • Sizergh Landscape Survey 2010
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    • LEVENS PHOTOS - INTRO
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10/8/2020 0 Comments

DONATION enabled by the kindness of those who received copies of our WW1 book -  Levens in the Shadow of the Great War

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25/7/2020 0 Comments

ALL 2020 meetings are now cancelled

After a good deal of thought the LLHG Committee has decided (w.e.f. 24 July) that the remaining 3 meetings in our 2020 programme are cancelled. We are not confident that the need for social distancing will evaporate in the near future thus making it unfeasible for Levens Institute to host our members and visitors.  We hope that we will be able to welcome everyone back in January 2021 when our AGM falls due.

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19/5/2020 0 Comments

JUNE outdoor meeting cancelled

Although there has been some relaxation of the stay safe rules and there might well be more to come soon there is neither the certainty that it will be enough to make our "Great Fire of Flookburgh" walk hosted by Helen Evans of Oxford Archaeology feasible, nor that our members would wish to be in a gathering. On behalf of LLHG Committee I have emailed Helen to cancel and to ask if it can be rescheduled to 2021..

​Allan Steward 
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14/3/2020 0 Comments

Corona virus forces cancellation of MAY meeting

Having had to cancel the March and April meetings we regret to tell you that the one scheduled for MAY 21st is also CANCELLED.
We are still hoping that the outdoor meeting on June 18th when Helen Evans is due to tell us about The Great Fire of Flookburgh will be able to go ahead but the chances are diminishing.
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2/3/2020 0 Comments

Meeting on Thursday 19 March

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14/2/2020 0 Comments

Meeting on Thursday 20 February

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21/1/2020 0 Comments

Saturday 1 February - book launch event for "Levens in the Shadow of the Great War"

Remember our WW1 centenary exhibition on Armistice Sunday 2018?

That was part of our WW1 project for which we received a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The grant also funded the other part of the project, a commemorative book.

​This book, which was researched, written and produced by LLHG members, will be launched at an event in the Levens village Institute on Saturday 1 February from 14.00 to 17.00. There is no admission charge and refreshments (wine, soft drinks and nibbles) will be provided, and copies of the book will be available - all are welcome, see the poster below.

Please note that we are NOT selling the book but instead will ask for recipients to make a donation which will be split 50/50 between LLHG and SSAFA - the Armed Forces charity, formerly known as Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association, which provides lifelong support to serving men and women and veterans from the British Armed Forces and their families or dependents. We have chosen this particular charity because one of the people mentioned in the book was the local organiser for its predecessor “The Soldiers, Sailors and Families Association” at the outbreak of the war in 1914.
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19/12/2019 0 Comments

2020 Programme

The Levens Local History Group talks are held at Levens Institute at 7:30pm on the 3rd Thursday of the month, unless otherwise stated. Admission is free to members and £2 to others. The programme for 2020 is as follows:

January 16:         AGM - Dave Joy  –   Liverpool Cowkeepers - A Family History
February 20:         Alasdair Simpson – Crossfields of Arnside
March 19:         Mike Winstanley – Crime & Punishment
April 16:         David Ratledge – Roman Roads in South Lakeland
May 21:         June Hall – Vernacular Buildings
June 18:         Walk - Helen Evans – The Great Fire of Flookburgh
September 17:         Richard Preston – WWI Medicine in Cumbria
October 15:         Ian Saunders – Maps
November 19:         ​Lydia Prosser – The  Portable Antiquities Scheme, a Local Update
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25/3/2019 0 Comments

Meeting 20 June 2019 change:

Helsington Laithes
The tour of Lancaster Castle arranged for 20 June has fallen through. Instead, a tour of Helsington Laithes 15C manor house has been arranged through the courtesy of the owners.

Helsington Laithes
The ancient house of Helsington Laithes lays South West of Kendal and can be seen clearly from the road travelling North into Kendal. The manor of Helsington and the house have, in their long history, been home to local families the Helsingtons, the Stricklands, the de Thwengs and the Bellinghams....all land-owning families in the surrounding areas.

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12/10/2018 0 Comments

National Lottery support for Levens Local History Group to mark First World War Centenary

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Levens Local History Group has received a National Lottery grant of £5100 for its project ‘Levens in WWI’. Awarded through the Heritage Lottery Fund’s First World War Then and Now programme, the project focuses not merely on the servicemen whose lives are commemorated on the war memorial at St. John the Evangelist Church in Levens, but also on those who survived the conflict and returned to the area, as well as the role of the women, children and men who stayed at home and aided the war effort.

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