Museum, Tea Room, 18th Century Walled Garden
A fascinating new study published in Nature has answered some centuries-old questions of history such as ‘were the Celts ever a single people?’ or ‘did the Saxons wipe out the native British?’.
Here are three reports with slightly different takes on the study…
Now there’ a title of a talk which arouses the curiosity in all of us.
Anne Eves gave us a talk on plants and gardens which she finds inspires her the ‘would be gardener’ to successfully create her perfect garden’. Anne drew her inspiration from many sources including gardens from all around the uk. Plants themselves inspired Anne, from the early in the season Snowdrops through to the autumn tints and winter.
Many thanks to Anne and to all who attended
Samuel Holden’s Mill 1937
Please click on the link to see an historic film of Samuel Holden’s Mill filmed in 1937
With thanks to Peter Copestake …..Pendle Movie Makers
The Prince’s Trust has chosen to join Incredible Edible on a project at Pendle Heritage Centre. Continue reading “Prince’s Trust and Incredible Edible at Pendle Heritage Centre”
The Garden Group was let loose today as four of us joined Peter Aldred to begin preparing the walled garden for Spring. Continue reading “Spring in the Air!”
Alex Whitlock gave an interesting talk last evening on the initial results of the field walking and investigations undertaken over the last 12 months by the Archaeological Group. Continue reading “The Hidden Valley – The Story So Far”
There were 7 of us at the meeting, minus David and Joe whose car broke down on the way! All agreed that the purpose for the meeting was to get the gardening details organised. Continue reading “Pendle Heritage Garden group – Wed. 25th February”
Does this underwater discovery change our understanding of prehistory? See here.
After the usual ritual of gathering in our ‘office’ aka the café at the Heritage Centre, eight of us reassembled on the eastern fringes of Roughlee – where our number increased to nine. Continue reading “Pendle`s ‘Hidden Valley’ – Field Walk February 14th”
The group had a wonderful trip to see the snowdrops at Lytham Hall today (Sunday 15th Feb). Continue reading “Gardening Group – Snowdrop Trip to Lytham Hall”
There wasn’t a lot of time after Friday’s Gardening Group to get back home, have tea and find our way to Blackburn for the evening Hallé concert. I like King George’s Hall. It’s is big classical edifice and a much friendlier place than the Hallé’s own Bridgewater Hall. For those into architecture, it was designed by Briggs and Wolstenholme, Blackburn architects responsible for some excellent buildings. Continue reading “Blackburn hosts the World’s Oldest Conductor”
Just over a dozen Friends met at the barn on Friday 30th January to discuss setting up a gardening group at Pendle Heritage Centre. We were ably supported by Peter Aldred, the head gardener.
Twelve people came to Saturday’s archaeology group at the Heritage Centre. We looked at the pot from the bloomery excavation at Sabden Fold and then ‘set to’ with organising the programme for the rest of the year. This will be uploaded to the calendar shortly.
St John’s Church in Nelson was this week’s venue and this time there was even a sign outside announcing the event! For whatever reason there was a bit of a buzz about the event this time and certainly more people coming through the doors. Continue reading “Second Pensioner’s Day”
Despite awful weather, visitors started to arrive as the doors opened at 11am. Several derogatory comments were made about the title of this gathering at St Luke’s Parish Hall, Brierfield, the feeling being that just because you are drawing a pension, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you act like a stereotypical pensioner! Continue reading “First Pensioner’s Day”
The Exec. Committee Meeting had its first meeting of the year in the Friends Room at the Heritage Centre on Tuesday 13th January. A long agenda kept us busy – we had to be escorted out of the building long after closing time! No time for a cup of tea!
Exciting plans for future events events were made……watch this space!
Moveable Feast – at Barrowford’s Pendle Heritage Centre, begins today 10 January and runs till 1 March 2015 on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays 11am – 3.30pm
Moveable Feast includes figurative and abstract paintings, original prints, drawings, sculpture and ceramics by artists who have exhibited at Gavagan Art, Settle, North Yorkshire. Mary Gavagan was previously director of Lancaster University art gallery for twenty years. Continue reading “Moveable Feast – Art Exhibition”