Reminder about tonight's talk - Kick off 7:30pm. ALSO - If you would like to attend our AGM on Thursday 12th April (£7 per head), this will be your LAST CHANCE to book a place!!! Menus and booking forms available at tonight's meeting. If you'd also like to attend our 'EVENING TRIP' (Marsden Park 21st June - FREE) or our DAY TRIP (Bradford 7th July) please collect a form or download and print out attached booking form and bring payment (£13.00 per head- cheques payable to Barnoldswick History Society) to tonight's meet. Don't forget - you don't need to be a member to attend our meetings or trips - New faces always welcome :)

Quick 'heads Up' about our next illustrated talk - 'Traditional Buildings in East Lancashire and West Craven' by Mr Kevin Illingworth. If you're interested in our local history then this talk is a must! Please have a look at the link for more information on this fascinating subject. Kick off - 7:30 - Barnoldswick Library - March 29. http://www.yvbsg.org.uk

Our AGM this year will be held at the ESSE Factory Café. Amazing food, all of it sourced from local suppliers. If you wish to attend - and you don't need to be a member of the Society to do so - please would you collect a form at our next meeting on March 29. If unable to attend our next meeting - please DM the society for details on how to pay and order your choice of meal. AGM takes place Thursday April 12 - Boring bits kick off at 7:00pm - meal commences at 7:30. Looking forward to seeing you all for what should be a cracking evening.

Quick reminder about tonight's talk by Harold Hoggarth. Hoping to see some new faces... especially local rebel types!!!

Just out of interest, and particularly useful for budding archaeologists, there is an online LIDAR map of the UK. Barnoldswick is one of the areas covered! See link: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SD87724635

Today we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Universal Suffrage in the UK. Our next illustrated talk - Respectable Rebels - celebrates three local women who made a significant contribution to it's achievement and implementation. The talk will be by our very own Harold Hoggarth, a seasoned veteran on the lecture circuit and a well respected local historian. Looking forward to another full house!

Due to illness, our talk on the Victorian Workhouse System has had to be cancelled, however, our highly knowledgable (and eminent local historian) programme secretary - Mr Derek Clabburn - will be filling the breech and giving a talk about Barnoldswick's Houses. Sure to be an entertaining lecture, the meeting will be given over to an open discussion and 'question and answer' session. May we take this opportunity to wish Mr Peter Parks a speedy recovery and hope to see him at a future event.

I see an artist called Dan Bell has drawn a 'Tolkienised' map of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Nice to see Barnoldswick and Earby appearing on the map but not quite sure how he's spelt Barnoldswick!!!

A request from a Canadian visitor to the site. Can anybody help Malcolm? "Back in the late 1940's/early 50's I attended Eshton Hall School in Gargrave and our P.T. teacher and boxing coach was Frank Bell, our 'Gentle Giant'. It was during that time that he famously knocked out Tommy Farr. From Youtube etc I have watched that fight and understand that he is still living in Barnoldswick at age 92! I have lived in Canada for the past 40 years and I would like to write to him but he is not listed in the phone directory. Please can anyone assist me?" Malcolm Blackburn, Cobourg, Ontario yorkist@cogeco.ca

Another find - A memorial Card for RMS Titanic issued by Nelson Co-Op Society undertakers. Did the sale of these cards go towards helping the survivors? Nicely printed with a metallic silver border.

Our chairman, David Steele, has been trawling through his collection and came up with this beauty. A 'Barnoldswick & District Motor Club' bar badge. Any information on this club would be most welcome.

Wishing all our members a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thanks for all your support during 2017. Looking forward to seeing you all in 2018 at our first talk - 'The Victorian Workhouse System' by Peter Parks - on Thursday January 25th.