Events

Here are details of a walk in the Llangollen Area being organised jointly by Friends of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley and Walkabout Flintshire. Anyone can join, just turn up.

On Saturday, 22nd February 2020 at 10:15am join Hazel, a member of Friends of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley and a volunteer Walk Leader for Walkabout Flintshire on an approximately 5 mile circular walk to see the beautiful snowdrops at Llantysilio Church. The walk will go via Valle Crucis Abbey and around Velvet Hill to Llantysilio Church before returning along the canal towpath past the Chainbridge Hotel where people may wish to stop for refreshments.

Neville Howell

Trustee and Events Secretary, Friends of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley

Trustee, Treasurer and Volunteer Walk Leader for Walkabout Flintshire

01244 535173, 07850 921295, nevjhow@gmail.com

A talk for the Flintshire Historical Society by Ray Bailey

Visit website at http://www.flintshirehistoricalsociety.org.uk/

Visit web page at https://holtlhs.weebly.com/

A talk for the Quay Watermen's Association by Sophie Fish, Principal Museums Officer at Flintshire County Council in the Kathleen and May Heritage Centre, Dock Road, Connah’s Quay, CH5 4D

£2 per head, free to QWA members.

For more information: qwaheritageofficer1819@gmail.com

An illustrated talk for the Mold Civic Society by David Parry

Our meetings are held at the Masonic Hall, Earl Road, Mold.  If you have a Sat Nav. use the postcode CH7 1AB.

We meet on the 1st Thursday of the month,  from Feb-June and Sept-Dec and we start our meetings at 7:30

http://moldcivicsociety.org.uk/

Membership to the Society costs £10 a year and starts from February of each year, however you are more than welcome to attend as a visitor (£2 per visit)

An illustrated talk for the Buckley Society by Derek Arnold at Hawkesbury Community Centre, Mill Lane, Buckley CH7 3HA

Doors open 7 pm for a 7.15 pm start all are welcome, members free visitors £2 at the door.

http://www.buckleysociety.org.uk

bucksoc@uwclub.net

You are invited to come and see a wide range of displays and meet local history and heritage groups from across North East Wales at the annual North East Wales Heritage Forum History Fair which will be held at Denbighshire Archives at Ruthin Gaol.

Participating Organisations:
Denbighshire Archives
Denbighshire Heritage Service
Ruthin Gaol
Flintshire Record Office
Denbighshire Historical Society
Glyndwr University History Department
Northop Heritage Group
New Glyn Valley Heritage Trust
North East Wales Heritage Forum
Ruthin and District Civic Association
Buckley Society
Dating Old Welsh Houses

Date: Saturday 14th March
Venue: Denbighshire Archives at Ruthin Gaol, 46 Clwyd Street, Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1HP
Time: 11am - 4pm  Free entry - all ages are welcome

MEMORIES OF THE TIVOLI

As part of a local history project financed the Buckley Society are appealing for your memories from visiting the Tivoli in Buckley in whatever era your experiences take you back to. From Picture House and Music Hall through to the Night Club era of modern times.

We are looking for old tickets, flyers, photographs, autographs, stories you can tell, memories of stars you met, fashions and any clothing you wore at gigs in the past.

If you can assist with any of the above, please come along to a ‘Memories’ event at the Heritage Centre, Buckley Library between 11 am and 3 pm on Saturday the 21^st March 2020 to share it with us.

The event is being supported by the Flintshire Museums Service and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Ample car parking space is available plus there are facilities for the disabled.

If you have information or material of interest but can’t make that date please e mail the Society at bucksoc@uwclub.net

http://www.buckleysociety.org.uk

A talk for the Holt Local History Society by Ray Jones

The meetings of the Society are held on the fourth Thursday in each month at 7:30 pm. Lectures are free for  members with a £3.00 charge for non-members

Visit web site at https://holtlhs.weebly.com/

Annual General Meeting followed by a lecture for the Flintshire Historical Society by Susan Fielding

A talk for the Mold Civic Society by Zoe Henderson

Our meetings are held at the Masonic Hall, Earl Road, Mold.  If you have a Sat Nav. use the postcode CH7 1AB.

We meet on the 1st Thursday of the month,  from Feb-June and Sept-Dec and we start our meetings at 7:30

http://moldcivicsociety.org.uk/

Membership to the Society costs £10 a year and starts from February of each year, however you are more than welcome to attend as a visitor (£2 per visit)

An illustrated talk by Jennifer Watson for the Buckley Society

Doors open 7 pm for a 7.15 pm start

Members free visitors £2 entry fee.

This is a re-arranged talk from the original programme as it was originally scheduled for February

Car parking available and refreshments provided

http://www.buckleysociety.org.uk

bucksoc@uwclub.net e mail contact

The Annual General Meeting followed at 7.30 pm. with a talk for the Holt Local History Society by

Martin Gee, Head Gardener at Weston Park 

The meetings of the Society are held on the fourth Thursday in each month at 7:30 pm. Lectures are free for  members with a £3.00 charge for non-members

Visit web site at https://holtlhs.weebly.com/

Six events with a focus on local history.

11:00 - Local writer Peter Evans spins some yarns from his book about the Alun, Resurrection River
12:00 - Author Barbara Erskine chats about the weird and wonderful stories she’s uncovered while researching the history of the Welsh Marches
13:00 - Author Anthony Riches talks about the Romans in North East Wales, the research background to his novels, and the development of Hope’s Park in the Past project (includes re-enactments).
14:00 - Andrew Green shares the background to his amazing book Wales In A Hundred Objects
15:00 - A panel of authors talks about writing the history of Wrexham and North East Wales
16:00 - Stories and Poems of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (includes re-enactments), plus Special Guest appearance by military historian Peter Doyle, author of Percy: A Story of 1918.

There will be displays and exhibitions from local history groups in the Memorial Hall’s side rooms.

Note this is part of the Wrexham Carnival of Words event running between 23.4.2020 and 2.5.2020

https://wrexhamcarnivalofwords.com/historyday/

A talk for the Flintshire Historical Society by Michael Freeman, Hon. Research Fellow of the National Museum of Wales

Visit Web site at http://www.flintshirehistoricalsociety.org.uk/