| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| When: | Monthly The preferred date will be the 3rd Wednesday of the month. Some venues may require us to choose an alternative date. Short visits will be in the afternoons; Longer/further visits may start earlier. |
| Venue: | Various |
This new group is developing a programme of visits to historical sites interspersed with group sessions which review past visits and anticipate future ones. More detail in the post (below) about our inaugural meeting..
Group News
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Alfresco History visit to Bankfield Museum
Barbara Wigley has compiled a report on this visit, with illustrations.
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Alfresco History visit to Sunny Bank Mill
On 1st May, 11 members of the group, travelling in three cars, arrived at 11 AM in brilliant sunshine and found their way to the Museum and Archive, situated in a weaving shed at the highest point on the site. We were given a historical overview of weaving at the mill by Rachel Moaby, the…
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Alfresco History visit to Bankfield Museum
This visit will take place at 11 AM on Wednesday 28th May. Details (pdf) prepared by Sue Hayter follow.
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Alfresco History and Archaeology Visit Programme 2025
The Group met in Roomfield Baptist Church on Tuesday 18th February to plan a sequence of visits for the 2025 season up to November. The programme we have come up with is subject to the arrangements being feasible with the venues we've selected, so the schedule is provisional for the time being. Members of the…
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Alfresco History trip to East Riddlesden Hall
Getting There By car. This will get you there quickest. Information about sharing lifts will be addressed in the RSVP form about this event. By Public Transport. For Live information go to https://www.traveline.info and give the destination as BD20 5EL. Two options are shown below. Both journeys take about the same overall time, but there's…
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Alfresco History Inaugural Meeting
Tuesday 4th June 2024 at Todmorden College 17 members took part in the meeting, and shared thoughts about its scope, meetings and organisation. There was general agreement that the focus should not be on recent history, and that the groups should be complementary to the two other history groups. A number of those present were…