Click on a year to read illustrated accounts which summarise the talks held in that year.
Below is a summary of the last ten talks.
-
I admitted to our Brindle Historical Society speaker that I knew little about Florence Nightingale beyond the fact that she carried a lamp. By the end of Frances Raftery’s excellent presentation, however,…
-
At the Brindle Historical Society’s first meeting following the summer break, members were treated to an absorbing account of the men who built two of the reservoirs in the Burnley area. At…
-
In the last meeting before the summer break, Historical Society members were treated to a fascinating and fast-moving explanation of why certain things are the way they are. From the size of…
-
It seems the good people of Brindle are quite sceptical – or at least those who attended the excellent talk by Tony Cunliffe at the Historical Society in May appeared to be.…
-
In April, Derek Cartwright described to the Brindle Historical Society how one company built – and effectively created – the town of Horwich. In 1884, Horwich was a small rural settlement of…
-
On Wednesday 18th March, nine members of the society visited the Lancashire County Council Conservation Studios in Preston which are appropriately housed in a converted church in the city centre. Whilst the…
-
In one of the most fast-paced and fascinating presentations in March, presenter Adrian Tayler kept his audience enthralled throughout the 75-minute talk. Although theatres existed in ancient Greece and Rome, theatre in…
-
There was an encouragingly large turnout of members for the AGM of the Society in February. In giving a summary of the society’s year, Henry Stone mentioned that, whilst the membership of…
-
History is the study of the past, but should it still be called history if people remember it within their own lifetime? The answer is yes. Events such as the miners’ strike…
-
In November, Darren Cranshaw, the Society’s own archivist, explained the history of the Brindle Estate and also how the Cavendish pub got its name. Darren was well placed to give this talk,…