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REGULAR
MONTHLY MEETINGS
Meetings
are held at the Horwich Resource Centre,
Beaumont Road (off Longworth Road), Horwich on the second Tuesday
of every month at 7:30pm. Free parking and disabled access is available.
A guest
speaker addresses each meeting talking on some aspect of heritage
and attendees are invited to ask questions and express their own
opinions on the topic. Tea, coffee and biscuits are available at
all meetings.
Admission
to the meetings is free to members but non-members are also welcome
to attend for just £1.50, payable on the door at each meeting.
Forthcoming
meetings will be on the following dates:
2010
Feb.
9th "Looking At Old Horwich" Martin Brownlow
March
9th "More Notable Old Rivingtonians" David
Kaye
April
13th "Loco Works Film Night"
May
11th "Leverhulme - could he have been more successful?"
David Clayton
June
8th A.G.M. 25 Years Celebration
July
13th "Monasteries in Lancashire" Maureen
Gilbertson
Aug
10th "Beatrix Potter" Margaret Curry
Sept
14th "North Country Folk Lore" Peter
Watson
Oct.
12th "Quarter Sessions Poor Law" Joan
Holding
Nov.
9th "344 Pretoria Pit Disasters" Andrea
Finney
SPECIAL
EVENTS
A
variety of special events are organised throughout the year including
an Autumn Gift Fair, Summer Evening Guided Walks, Trips to Places
of Interest, the Opening of the latest Exhibition at the Heritage
Centre and a Christmas Event.
2010
Saturday
March 6th Open Day Launch of the new exhibition
"The Way We Were"
Saturday
April 10th Open Day "History of Transport"
Saturday
May 8th Open Day "85th Anniversary of Leverhulme"
Saturday
June 12th "Heritage Societies Open Day"
Saturday
July 17th Open Day "Horwich Then & Now"
Saturday
Aug. 14th Open Day "Horwich Station/Loco Works"
Saturday
Sept. 11th Heritage Open Day "Family History"
Dec.
14th Christmas event - tba
!SAVE HORWICH LOCO WORKS!
Plans have been submitted to develop the Loco Works
site. The Society's campaign is not blanket opposition to this development,
but an attempt to persuade the developers to consider sympathetic
upgrading/conversion to modern day uses like housing & offices
as part of their 'mixed development' - without the Loco Works Horwich
wouldn't exist. We want to see a sensitive conversion, like Arcon
Village, respecting the heritage of the site. The Society
is asking people to register their views through this website, on
the petitions at the Heritage Centre and Horwich Library, on line
or by letter to Bolton and Horwich Town Councils by March 5th.
Thank you.
More information can be seen at http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/4860120.Historic_Loco_Works_may_become_housing_estate/
For
further information about any of our events please contact The
Editor.
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