OPEN MEETINGS (8pm at Heswall Hall unless stated otherwise)
Meetings normally include an update from the Chairman on matters of current interest to the society.
Coffee is available at the venue from self service vending machines,
Visitors are welcome
Coffee is available at the venue from self service vending machines,
Visitors are welcome
Next Event. Click to learn more and watch video
Wednesday 25th September 2024
Speaker: Dr Trevor Evans: "The Devils Porridge" A talk about the history of munitions in WW1. One of the biggest factories was in Ellesmere Port. “Devil’s Porridge”, a mixture of gun cotton and nitro-glycerine was used to produce cordite as a shell propellant. This hazardous work turned skin yellow.
Speaker: Dr Trevor Evans: "The Devils Porridge" A talk about the history of munitions in WW1. One of the biggest factories was in Ellesmere Port. “Devil’s Porridge”, a mixture of gun cotton and nitro-glycerine was used to produce cordite as a shell propellant. This hazardous work turned skin yellow.
Wednesday 20th November 2024
Speaker: Robert Dolphin. "Flaybrick Cemetery". The first public cemetery on the Wirral. Looking at its importance, decline and rebirth. One of the Wirrals most historic sites. The cemetery has been designated a conservation area by Wirral Borough Council, which owns the site.
Speaker: Robert Dolphin. "Flaybrick Cemetery". The first public cemetery on the Wirral. Looking at its importance, decline and rebirth. One of the Wirrals most historic sites. The cemetery has been designated a conservation area by Wirral Borough Council, which owns the site.
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Wednesday 22nd January 2025 - Speaker: Dr Stephen Lyus - "History of Ness Botanic Gardens". Arthur Kilpin Bulley, founder of Ness Botanic Gardens, possessed a progressive and welcoming ethos. Bulley wanted to ensure that everyone had access to beautiful plants.
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Wednesday 19th February 2025 - Speaker: Iain Jackson -"Architect Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew" - Born in Wallasey in 1899. Studied in Liverpool. A pioneer modernist architect across the UK. Fry's works in Britain range from railway stations to private houses to large corporate headquarters. Among his best known works in the UK is the Kensal House flats in Ladbroke Grove, London, designed with Walter Gropius, which was aimed at providing high quality low cost housing,
Wednesday 19th March 2025: Speakers Gillian & Peter Bolt. Thomas Brassey - The Greatest Railway Builder in the World.
Brassey (1805 – 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built one in every twenty miles of railway in the world. This included three-quarters of the lines in France, major lines in many other European countries and in Canada, Australia, South America and India. |
Wednesday 24th September 2025 - TBA
Wednesday 19th November 2025 - TBA
