Huntingdonshire Local History Society Lecture Programme
for 2009 to 2010
Pathfinder House, Huntingdon
will no longer be available for lectures after 2008.
In 2010 our lectures will be held in the
Methodist Church, High Street, Huntingdon, PE29 3TE
1st October 2009 7-30 p.m, Methodist
Church, High Street, Huntingdon
Simon Thurley Lord Burlington and the Extraordinary
Story of Chiswick House.
This lecture has taken place
19th November 2009. 7-30 p.m.
Huntingdon Library & Archives Centre, Princes Street
Ken Sneath The Consumer Revolution of the Eighteenth
Century
This lecture has taken place
4th December 2009. 7-45 for 8-00 p.m. The
Assembly Room, Huntingdon Town Hall.
Clifford Bartlett and Friends Christmas Musical
Evening
This event has taken place.
14th January 2010. 7-30 p.m. Methodist
Church, High Street, Huntingdon
Robert Atkins Archaeology of the Stow Longa to
Tilbrook Pipeline
This lecture has taken place.
25th February 2010. 7-30p.m. Methodist
Church, High Street, Huntingdon
Keith Hinde The Drainage of the Huntingdonshire
Fens
Keith’s modestly-titled 2006 book Fenland
Pumping Engines is a Bible for anyone interested in the history of the fens
and captures a lifetime’s passion for understanding, recording and preserving
the engineering works upon which the drainage depends. He will talk about that
work within Huntingdonshire set within the wider context.
18th March 2010. 7-30.p.m. Methodist
Church, High Street, Huntingdon
Mary Eiloart Huntingdon House of Correction and New
Prison
Mary has researched the history of the
establishment on St Peter’s Road from its foundation in 1828 through to its
closure in 1886. In the 58 years there were approximately 11,000 imprisonments,
predominantly involving agricultural labourers with sentences never longer
than 2 years, with 2 weeks a common length of time and anything longer than 3
months the exception.
22nd April 2010. 7-30p.m. Methodist
Church, High Street, Huntingdon
Brian Kell Introducing Straw Bears
Whittlesey may be well known for its Mere,
for bricks and for chips but it is the place where on Saturday 12th January
1980 Brian, swathed
in straw, was led from Whittlesey Museum to set in motion the revival of this
custom linked to Plough Monday. In his time a sword dancer in his native north
east and a Fool with the Peterborough morris men Brian will tell us about this
fascinating aspect of our heritage.
